Sentence examples for centuries with the development from inspiring English sources

This process began in the 12th century with the Mongol conquest of China and invasions of Europe, and it quickened and assumed a more pronounced European flavour in the 15th and 16th centuries with the development of oceangoing ships armed with gunpowder weapons.

The fragmentation of Northwest Germanic can be dated roughly to the period of the 3rd 6th centuries with the development of three major dialect divisions: in Scandinavia, North Germanic; in Jutland and the northwest of Germany, North Sea Germanic; and in central Germany, South Germanic.

In common with other towns of Lancashire, Burnley grew rapidly from the end of the 18th century with the development of the cotton textile industry.

In the 20th century, with the development of the automobile, country dining became popular in France, and a number of fine provincial restaurants were established.

In the 15th century, with the development of overseas trades, the autonomous guilds became more closely linked to the royal provincial governments and councils.

The industrial period began during the mid-18th century, with the development of an efficient steam engine, and lasted to the end of World War II (1945).

Grenoble prospered as an industrial town at the end of the 19th century with the development of hydroelectric power in the surrounding region.

The inviolability of the medieval curtain wall came to an end in the 15th century, with the development of effective cast-bronze siege cannon.

Dialectology as a discipline began in the 19th century with the development in western Europe of dictionaries and grammars of regional dialects.

However it was not until the end of the 18th century, with the development of the sciences of botany and geology, that the idea of evolution was debated seriously.

He really gets going in the 18th century with the development of copperplate, "still the hand we reach for at elevated moments of our lives" (you see it replicated in printed form on certain kinds of invitation, especially to weddings).