Sentences with phrase «century after the collapse»

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In Europe, Charlemagne, who in 800 A.D. became the first emperor in western Europe, after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier and who was a pivotal figure in the Christianization of Europe, issued the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae, which prescribed death for Saxons who refused to convert from their native Germanic paganism to Christianity.

It took Brazil 20 years from the 1980s to recover a breastfeeding culture after it collapsed following the entry of multinational companies such as Nestlé at the beginning of the last century.

The existential danger for Labour is that the pivot which has defined it for a century — the pivot between the voluntary and parliamentary wings — would come unstuck if Mr Corbyn clings to his leadership of the former after his leadership of the latter has collapsed.

Scholars have studied the city's Bronze Age remains for more than a century, but more recent research has focused on the urban development of the city after it entered the Iron Age — in the 11th century BC — following the Bronze Age collapse of the Aegean palaces.

More large - scale emigration of Romanis to the Americas took place in the early 20th century, the majority of them fleeing economic depression and the persecution of the collapsing Austro - Hungarian empire after World War I. Today it is estimated that there are close to 100,000 so called Rom Amerko living in New York.

Around the fifth century A.D., after the Roman Empire had collapsed, people from other parts of Europe migrated to Britain.

Despite its value, the breed faced near - extinction in the mid to late 18th century with the collapse of the Scottish nobility after the battle of Culloden and the Jacobite rebellion but was saved by enthusiasts Archibald and Duncan McNeill.

Excavations at Santa Rita have shown that the kingdom thrived into the 13th century, well after the general collapse of the Maya civilization.

Self - sufficient compared other cities in the region (the latter of which were hopelessly dependent on its urban population), it managed to last almost a full century longer than other centers in the area after the Mayan collapse.

Drawing on everything from 18th - century rococo to 1970s punk, her recent work shows images of people surviving after civilizations collapse, though the nature of the cause is unclear, whether from climate change, social injustice or financial meltdown.

So if 1 meter of sea level rise happens by 2080, it is more than half a century after civilizations started collapsing.