Continent example sentences

Camels carried dried fruits, dates, carpets, silks and even fresh fruits from Kabul to the subcontinent and elsewhere.Socially and politically, a landed aristocracy was the dominant class on the continent.Tropical deserts are located in the western margins of the continents.If tens of millions of Indians today drop everything to watch the Indian team play a Test match or a one-day international, it is reasonable for a history of India to explore how that stick-and-ball game invented in south-eastern England became the ruling passion of the Indian sub-continent.With the decline in the authority of the Mughal emperors, the governors of large provinces, subadars, and the great zamindars consolidated their authority in different parts of the subcontinent.Ultimately, the English emerged as the most successful commercial and political power in the subcontinent.The west and south west margins of the continents are different.The distant north-eastern part of the subcontinent too was entirely dominated by tribes – the Nagas, Ahoms and many others.This process was strengthened with the establishment of the Delhi Sultanate (Chapter 3), when several major Sufi centres developed all over the subcontinent.Through a fortunate chance he became laboratory assistant to Davy, and during 1813-4, Faraday accompanied him to the Continent.In fact, this is one of the earliest examples of the use of a regional language in official records in the subcontinent.In large parts of the subcontinent, society was already divided according to the rules of varna.They are commonly found along the eastern margin of the continents, e.g., In south east USA, South China and in South East Brazil.From the eighth century onwards the subcontinent was dotted with several small towns.By contrast, in the early sixteenth century Babur used Hindustan to describe the geography, the fauna and the culture of the inhabitants of the subcontinent.