7 sentences with 'background'

Example sentences and phrases with the word background and other words derived from it.

« The Celts provide a background context for the rise of Rome, as Roman expansion would end Celtic independence in most of Europe. »
« The background to the Crusades was the power of a specific group of nomadic warriors in the Middle East, the Seljuk Turks. »
« Remarkably, despite being a teenage peasant girl with no military background, Joan of Arc proved capable of aiming catapults, making tactical decisions and rallying French troops to victory. »
« In short, the background to the Renaissance was the prosperity of northern Italy. Italy did not face a great series of wars like the Hundred Years' War in France. »
« Napoleon also turned the officer corps into a true meritocracy: an able soldier could now rise to command regardless of his social background. »
« Moreover, many of the recruits were just that: new recruits with insufficient training and no military background. »
« The new political ideologies that had emerged from the background of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic period came together in 1848. »

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