9 sentences with 'uprising'
Example sentences and phrases with the word uprising and other words derived from it.
• « In short, Spartan society was a military hierarchy that grew out of fear of a mass slave uprising. »
• « In 66 CE there was a major uprising against Rome. It took the imperial forces four years to crush the uprising, resulting in the greatest disaster in ancient Jewish history: the permanent destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE. »
• « Another uprising decades later (between 132 and 136 CE) resulted in the almost complete dispersion of the Jews, to the point that the Jewish homeland was effectively lost to them until the founding of the modern state of Israel in 1948 CE. »
• « The Jewish uprising that occurred against the Romans in 66 CE occurred a generation after the death of another type of Jewish revolutionary: Jesus of Nazareth. »
• « The initial Gothic uprising that triggered the beginning of the end for the western Roman Empire was in the Balkans, but the Goths were then persuaded to go west. Subsequent invasions of Central Europe were directed westwards. »
• « The Umayyads fell from power in 750 because of a revolutionary uprising against their rule led by the Abbasids, a clan descended from Muhammad's uncle. The Abbasids were supported by many non-Arab but Muslim subjects of the caliphate (called mawali) who resented the fact that the Umayyads had always protected the status of Arabs at the expense of non-Arab Muslims in their empire. »
• « In 1524, a huge peasant uprising took place throughout Germany, inspired by this interpretation of Lutheranism and demanding a reduction of feudal rights and duties, an end to serfdom and greater justice on the part of the feudal lords. »
• « Still, the uprising indicated that the movement Luther had started was not something he could control, despite his best efforts. »
• « Meanwhile, a huge Catholic uprising took place in Ireland and thousands of Protestants were massacred. »