5 sentences with 'harvests'
Example sentences and phrases with the word harvests and other words derived from it.
• « A sufficiently serious war in Greece itself could easily have undermined harvests already close to subsistence level, and when destroyed by these conflicts, cities, fortresses and palaces could not be rebuilt. »
• « These happy times for Byzantium ended when Emperor Basil II died in 1025 without male heirs. Simultaneously, a series of bad harvests hit the empire. »
• « When harvests failed, Europeans not only starved to death, but those who survived were left even more vulnerable to epidemics due to weakened immune systems. »
• « These political expectations rose at the very time when the price of bread soared - 1787 and 1788 had seen very poor harvests, and there was widespread fear of famine. »
• « Entire villages disappeared. However, high birth rates, coupled with abundant harvests, caused the population to grow over the next century. »