6 sentences with 'overthrew'
Example sentences and phrases with the word overthrew and other words derived from it.
• « However, around 1650 BC, a group of Canaanites founded what became known as the 'Hyksos' dynasty, an Egyptian term meaning simply 'leaders of foreigners', after they overthrew the king and seized power in Lower Egypt. »
• « In 509 BC. (according to their own legends), the Romans overthrew the last Etruscan king and established a fully republican form of government, with elected senators making all major political decisions. »
• « The Seljuk dynasty that overthrew the Ghaznavids in 1040 drew on the long history of effective Persian administration to establish a real government (rather than just gatherings of tribal leaders) and to financially support Islamic civilisation-related building projects such as madrasas (schools for the teaching of the Qur'an and Islamic law) and public baths. »
• « Ivan II also overthrew the authority of the Mongol Golden Horde in his lands and began the process of permanently ending Mongol control in Russia. For the first time, a Russian prince had carved out significant territory through conquest. »
• « There was a huge revolutionary explosion across Europe in 1848. From Paris to Vienna to Prague, Europeans rose up and temporarily overthrew their monarchs. In the end, however, the revolutions collapsed. »
• « In 1959, Cuban revolutionaries overthrew the right-wing dictator Fulgencio Batista (who had been an American ally), and fearing American intervention, eventually allied themselves with the USSR. Thus, when Kennedy took office in 1960, he faced not only the growing technological and military might of the USSR itself, but what he saw as a Soviet puppet on America's doorstep. »