9 sentences with 'route'
Example sentences and phrases with the word route and other words derived from it.
• « In turn, for the Cynics the only route to happiness was a more aggressive rejection of social life than that advocated by the Epicureans (who, again, were quite sedentary). »
• « Rome was also on the route between the Greek colonies of southern Italy and various Italian cultures in the central and northern part of the peninsula. »
• « The Reconquista was not completed until 1492, the same year that Columbus sailed in search of a western route to Asia, and many of the Spanish conquistadors who later invaded South and Central America had gained their military experience from what they saw as the holy wars against the Muslim inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula. »
• « Although Europeans quickly realised that the Americas were entirely new continents, they persisted in their search for a western route to Asia. »
• « The Spanish would later use the Philippines as the base for their Pacific trade network, ultimately linking Europe, the Americas and Asia and fulfilling the original vision of a western route to Asia that had inspired Columbus' expedition in the first place. »
• « In 1652, the Dutch took control of the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa, which allowed them to control the ships around Africa en route to Asia, and they exerted additional military force in the Indies to force native merchants to trade only with them (among Europeans). »
• « South American silver passed through both Spain and the Philippines en route to China, where it paid for luxury goods shipped to Spain. »
• « Shortly before 6 a.m., Smyth left for work in his green 1992 Ford Taurus, taking the same route he had used for 17 years. »