Sentences with 'heartlands'
Example sentences and phrases with the word heartlands and other words derived from it.
• « North Africa, west of Egypt, broke away in 800, emerging as a group of rival Islamic kingdoms. Other territories followed suit for the rest of the 9th century, leaving the Caliphate in direct control only of the Mesopotamian heartlands. »
• « Things began to change around 1000 CE. The main causes of these changes were twofold: the end of large-scale invasions from outside the European heartlands, and changes in agriculture that seem very simple from a contemporary perspective, but were revolutionary at the time. »