Sentences with 'northwards'

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


« The largest of these kingdoms was Mali, which oversaw a lucrative trade in gold and various luxury goods northwards via caravans to North Africa and the rest of the Mediterranean. »
« As a result, there was a great expansion between 1000 and 1300 from the mid-latitudes of Europe northwards and eastwards, as the farming population took advantage of the new technology (and the growing population) to clear and cultivate what had been forest, scrub or swamp. »
« Incandescent matter rose to the surface in the form of bubbles. One of them ran into the African continent, the granite layer did not resist and gave way. India broke away and began its slow drift northwards, followed by a procession of younger and younger islands (Maldives, Seychelles, Mauritius, for example) until it reached the Pito de La Fournaise volcano, which is still active there. »

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