6 sentences with “fuelled”

The city of Constantinople grew to become one of the great cities of late antiquity and the Middle Ages, fuelled by grain from Egypt and bringing enormous wealth through trade.

In turn, the rights of man fuelled both demands for political reform and helped inspire the vigorous abolitionist (anti-slavery) movement that flourished in Britain in particular.

A child born in 1946 was a teenager in the early 1960s, which in turn fuelled the massive explosion of popular music that gave rise to the most iconic musical expression of youth culture: rock and roll.

These advances were met with understandable enthusiasm. At the same time, however, they fuelled a new obsession with cleanliness. Suddenly, people realised that they lived in a dirty world full of invisible enemies - germs.

Simultaneously, the Weimar Republic faced continuing economic problems, which fuelled the resentment of most Germans towards the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and its reparation payments (set at 132 billion gold marks a year, although that amount was renegotiated and reduced over the decade).

Soldiers and knights enlisted in the service of rival noble houses, which eventually fuelled a conflict within the royal family between two different branches, the Lancastrians and the Yorks. The result was a violent conflict over the crown called the War of the Roses, which lasted from 1455 to 1485.