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Sentence Examples My point is that our civilization stands in peril of the same grave danger. In other words, it was the adoption or civilization process-by degrees-that advanced the adoptees to their elevated social ranks. It was during this period that Minoan civilization of Crete and the Mycenean civilization of mainland Greece flourished. The idea the liberals lack morals and are the cause of the breakdown of civilization is factually and historically ungrounded. Each viewed his trial as a pivot on a line in history dividing barbarism from civilization. He was just as interested in its corrosive effect on those who claimed to bring civilization to the unlettered heathen. The development of western civilization is predicated on the ambition to achieve mastery over nature and to manipulate it unrestrictedly. There's something still really mysterious about the Etruscan civilization and language. Vedic civilization is based on four varnas, but there are people who do not fit within these four. You have to go back to the fundamental principle upon which modern civilization was based, the principle of modern natural law. The incident was neither a confrontation between nations nor one between civilization and barbarianism, but a fight between goodness and evil. The flowering of civilization and new confidence in the fate of the imperial institution characterized the regency of Prince Shotoku. Is it at this cost that one acquires civilization and the happiness to own a bowler hat rather than a burnous? Twenty-first century civilization will rely on the effective utilization and development of the technologies that nuclear radiation has to offer. In the early 1950s, the Massey commissioners noted that universities remained islets of civilization awash in a growing sea of materialism. But some people have thoughts as well as feelings about this attendant effect of civilization. The sages astounded him with an account from hoary antiquity about the lost Atlantean civilization. The Hollywood actress and her lover want their love child to be born in Africa because it is the cradle of civilization. Hinduism might have started as Dravidian civilization and later merged with Aryan civilization. In every civilization, the skilled artificer has an honored place beside the scribe and the shaman. Show More Sentences It is a well known that virtually every ancient civilization flourished on riverbanks. The Anglosphere is the emerging branch of civilization at the core of which are the nations of the English-speaking world. According to the newspaper, the coin belonged to an ancient civilization that flourished in Al-Jouf. Everywhere he looked twisted beams loomed up out of the sand like monoliths, the only remnant of a destroyed civilization. We have changed our lives in astounding ways since civilization began, and yet commerce has remained a constant. In contrast, German Kultur included knowledge, education, civilization, national genius and the arts all of which expressed the national soul. Cradle of French civilization in America, Quebec City with its historic district is recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. He was a competent woodsman and would have had no problem traveling inland through the bush and back into mainland civilization anonymously. She expressed her hope that her gifted nephew would be an emissary of civilization to the wild colonies. For Derricke's final image is actually an idea, his dream of the successful civilization of the wild Irish. Lewis was already severely depressed after their trip and never fully readjusted to life back in civilization. Hello, Earth, Do You Read Me? How might the first intelligence from an extraterrestrial civilization be transmitted to earth? It reads like the suicide note not of a country alone, but of an entire civilization. Zhu Ke, the writer, said the substitution of the lash for crueler corporal punishments revealed a forward movement of civilization. He also had a great admiration for Chinese art and civilization, which was expressed in his fluent, calligraphic style. His obsessive imagining of a lost civilization seems to have joyfully regressed to the thrill-seeking bent of an adolescent model-builder. Britain, he declared, and British laws and achievements, were the acme of human civilization. War strips us of the later accretions of civilization and lays bare the primal man in each of us. Instead, you'll stand in front of monuments where civilization took a quantum leap forward. We cannot pronounce them unsusceptible of civilization since even apes have been taught to eat, drink, repose and dress like men. Show More Sentences After his encounter with this civilization, the time traveller advances further into the future to a time when the Earth stops rotating. The soberly dressed singers play many 'roles', if you will, but they essentially represent a civilization in decay. The visit begins with the civilization of ancient India, with Maurya and Sunga terracottas, Mathura and Amaravati sculpture and medieval bronzes. His re-entry into civilization was not marked by a news conference with camera flashes and barked questions. He answers by imagining how our liberated civilization will mesh with the genetic revolution. This is the systematic vandalization and humiliation of one civilization by another with technological superiority. Applying this new morality, science could bring into being a global civilization without poverty or war. You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. It may be many years before the true impact of 2004 on the development of a true spacefaring civilization is understood. Prominent traces of ancient Vedic civilization can still be found today not only in India but outside her borders as well. Think about the thin veneer of civilization for a moment, and ask yourself how you would respond to chaos. Perhaps it may be said that civilization is about to enter the age of the decline of man. This theory, just as classical Malthusianism, fails to account for the beneficial systemic effects of industrial civilization. All we hear is how our nuptials will lead to the downfall of western civilization by eroding heterosexual marriage. When thus arranged, they reveal with some degree of certainty the entire range of human progress from savagery to civilization. The first major civilization was the Mound Builders, known in Oklahoma as the Caddoans. If that's the new definition I have a feeling that the list of enemies of civilization is going to get mighty unwieldy. Western civilization is now predicated on oil and the plastics derived from it. The history of Western civilization provides a good case study of this progression. A civilization that believes itself capable of making do without other civilizations tends to be headed toward its doom. Show More Sentences Ideas and culture are what differentiate civilization from barbarism, not the economy. The civilization on the mainland was founded by people called the Hellenes. The goal of conservatism is to defend our civilization from decay and decadence, from a weakening of our principles. While studying Aztec civilization, however, Morriss had discovered something else strange and intriguing, rarely mentioned and little researched. The ancient Egyptian civilization relied on the flooding of the Nile to create fertile land for farming in an otherwise desert landscape. I know you are, but I also know you're not very outdoorsy, and that you'd much prefer to be in civilization if you can help it. Alcohol is one of our milder stupefiers and may have made civilization both necessary and possible. Immediately the dangers of his civilization are reified, as Huck hears a conversation between outlaws on the run. The nature of civilization is that it is a framework wherein people may live together, however fractiously. The island becomes an outpost of civilization in the midst of a strange culture. Unlike Kurtz, he sees civilization in practical terms rather than through high-flown rhetoric. Their religious beliefs also play a big part in why the civilization was so great. Tall palm trees with overhanging branches shaded the civilization here, aided by large boulders. As we climbed into the hills, each country road became successively poorer and civilization more remote. Among the Hittites, the Anatolian civilization in western Turkey in the second millennium bc, a grape harvesting festival took place every year. All of these ideas were dismissed, with emphasis on removing the Minoan civilization on Theta as the likely origin of the Atlantis myth. In the refined civilization that was the Renaissance, the humanists believed they were the ancients reincarnate. Indeed human civilization and perhaps even humanity itself would not have ever developed if not for the rock. As population increased, as civilization progressed, wise norms were formed for happy, healthy living. If human civilization is to continue to advance in the future, we must maintain and continually rebuild our stocks of social resources. Show More Sentences The earliest such source comes from the ancient Sumerian culture, which was the first civilization on Earth. The situation over there shows a level of chaos and complete breakdown of human civilization never before seen on the face of this good earth. On the contrary, in every organic process, the antitheses always reflect a unified totality, and civilization is an organic process. The process of civilization not only brought improved individual self-control but also a change of attitudes and values. Scholars began to discuss civilization as a unilinear process with races able to ascend or descend a graduated scale. He stated that the level of a people's civilization depended upon their environment instead of their ethnicity. The ancient Mayan civilization was very advanced and had a sophisticated knowledge of science, art, and astronomy. I think western civilization is built on three fundamental and interlocking principles that form the Western world view. Our eyes move past abandoned buildings, tombs of a civilization in decline. And it cherished a lot of the values that built our civilization as we know it now. Mayan civilization had collapsed by the sixteenth century, when Spanish expeditions reached the area. In the same year he proposed the idea that the collapse of Minoan civilization in the Aegean was caused by the eruption of Thera in c. 1500 bc. The Japanese and Koreans adopted the Chinese civilization early on, but they remain patriotically Japanese and Korean. Finally, the existence of civilization allows man to remain innocent or ignorant about his true nature. The Minoan civilization on the island of Crete was named after the legendary King Minos. He mistrusted humanity's capacity to save or significantly improve itself, and was pretty certain that our civilization would self-destruct. In 1993, any reasonable facsimile of civilization would have had me committing indecencies with the bus station tarmac. The Indo-Chinese were founders of a mighty civilization as may be seen at Anghor Vat and elsewhere. This could result in greater appreciation for Italian culture and civilization among Indonesians. Western civilization in particular is distrusted as the modern incarnation of evil. Show More Sentences In a terrain so inhospitable to a civilization of hunters and gatherers, the Kurds became a race of raiders and traders. But, when scrutinized closely, the later Roman relationship to Trojan civilization exists in name only. A technocrat to his fingertips, he is exactly the kind of individual who keeps modern civilization moving smoothly along. Pluralistic civilization abets division into groups, clubs, circles, and lodges. Any kind of civilization system has its inherent requirement of heredity and self-existence, which is irreproachable. The once great Celtic civilization is today represented only by the modern Irish, Manx and Scots, and the Welsh, Cornish and Bretons. It is a fit organ for the millionaire corruptionist and the civilization that he is degrading. That's why suits and monochromatic colors are so popular because the concept of work as dictated by the western civilization is about conformity. A new chapter has begun in what was once the cradle of civilization of mankind. In nineteenth-century America, racial uplift ideology focused on the civilization of the African Diaspora. Why not return to pre-Roman and pre-Christian times, when the Germanic tribes were uncorrupted by the cosmopolitan civilization of Europe? At press time, the extinct civilization of super-beings was unavailable for comment. The software industry is just a few decades old while construction is as old as civilization itself. The line between civilization and barbarism is much thinner than Downer implies. A culture that is preoccupied with the self and with self-gratification is a culture that is moving away from civilization and toward chaos. Freud postulated this idea in terms of the outgrowth of civilization out of the primal horde. But when they are in our custody, when they are defenseless, it is a mark of Western civilization that we treat them humanely. The Maine wood loomed behind it, providing a contrast between civilization and pure, unadulterated nature that was almost startling. From this time, the Tibetans evolved a distinct but simple civilization founded on the idea of the interdependence of man and nature. Could the United States shake off its provincialism and develop a true civilization worthy of its European heritage? Show More Sentences To this day, the French are the self-styled representatives of higher civilization in a world of lesser specimens. This is all set on a backdrop of a larger presence within the galaxy, an ancient civilization that left floating derelicts in space. They carried with them into the wilderness the light of civilization and lit victory beacons visible for miles around. He had also protected the only habitat of civilization from the devastation of the destructive angels. Also, we just cannot gratify every desire that arises, because to do so would destroy civilization by breaking down its necessary restrictions. The history in question is Russian, and the ark is St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum, one of the world's greatest repositories of European art and civilization. We can split the atom and land a rocket on Mars, but sanity and civilization are a delicate edifice of reason over a maelstrom of envy, insecurity, and terror. In the thousands of years before the Industrial Revolution, civilization was stuck in the Malthusian Trap. As for torture, we can go all the way back to the English Bill of Rights in 1689 to find that civilization had evolved enough to outlaw cruel and unusual punishment. While we watch fires ablaze in the Middle East and judge other peoples as uncivilized, have we not lost civilization here? How a workable civilization is less about perfection and more about strict zoning. But the fact that our civilization and our children's futures are under attack is what motivates us, more than anything, to stand up for the cause of freedom. In Russia and Europe, the Slavophile Nikolay Danilevskiy argued that Russia possessed a distinctive Slavic civilization of its own, midway between Europe and Asia. Standing on the edge of the Burfell volcano, you realize what a fragile construct modern civilization is. This unfavourableness of nature prevented the Africans from looking within and that accounts for their failure to build any civilization in the past. The concept of civilization is not a neutral, value-free concept. The centre of Sinhalese and Buddhist civilization gradually shifted south-westwards, and political power was divided between a number of kingdoms. However, we should not confuse the legitimate desire for a new spacefaring civilization with the equally legitimate goal of building return on investment. Tendentious jokes are a way of bypassing the barriers against the direct expression of both obscenity and aggression which civilization has set up. No handwringing, no declaiming the end of Western civilization due to loose-moraled hipsters and free agent nation types swapping spit and job leads on the Internet. Show More Sentences It has been greatest in the ancient heartlands of civilization in the Mediterranean Basin, western and central Asia, and China, and least in the polar desert. Ever since, Indigenous Peoples have been forced into submission, if not obliteration, in the name of civilization and progress all over the globe. Three superstorms threaten to end Western civilization as we know it. This Anglosphere civilization has been the path-breaker for modernity, initiating modern democratic institutions and the industrial and subsequent economic revolutions. And even while the commemorators shared many ideas about civilization and progress, they followed their ideas of civilization and progress to widely divergent conclusions. I began wondering what kind of civilization could be rich enough to build a star-ship, free enough to allow it to be in private hands, incurious enough to only build one. From there, I had to wonder if the mathematics of games force a conscience to develop in any suitable civilization in any compossible world invented by God. It is the pith of civilization and of man's human existence. Caribbean civilization represents the meeting of Old and New Worlds and the freshness of being ever caught up in a creative whirlpool of constant flux. In contrast to young Apollo and Athena, the Furies represent the primitive past that needs to be defeated and tamed in order for civilization to progress. Take away that civilization through some force of primal nature, and you will find the foundations of society quickly evaporate and the animal take over. He calls for a progression from the primitive lack of civilization of the primal horde to a sense of the dignity of all men in a developed and coherent society. The woman across the table was just as fearful, but kept herself under a mask-a mask of civilization hiding wild eyes, properness hiding tensed muscles, ready to spring. With the progress of civilization all over the world, forest dwellers that were hunters and fruit gatherers have turned into denizens of the concrete jungle. The parochial provincialism of mindless Eurocentrism has distorted the history of civilization as originating in Greece while summing up India's contribution in a line or two. Sigmund Freud's theories have been punctured and pricked with doubt, but anyone who argues that he should be dropped from the canon of Western civilization needs therapy. Opponents of this sea change were aghast and direfully warned that if this were to occur, the sky would fall and civilization as we know it would come to an end. All I can say is, there goes western civilization right in the dumper. In these plans, Condorcet divided the historical record into nine epochs spanning the progress of the human mind from the dawn of civilization to his own time. You may know me as an exactingly subtle novelist who peels away the artifices of European civilization to expose the twitching nerves of the human animal. Show More Sentences On another occasion the return to civilization was less exhilarating. The Ganga Plain is among the biggest concentrations of people and is the cultural hearth from which its civilization has spread to dominate the substrata of Southeast Asian culture. By a natural extension of the family-romance myth, this could be achieved by rejecting the civilization emblemized as father and uniting oneself with it as emblemized by the mother-lover. In the early years of the development of Japanese society and culture, Prince Shotoku played a key role in incorporating many elements of Chinese civilization into Japan. Is it also genius and a classic work about the struggle between civilization and barbarism, between good and evil? How easily an ancient civilization can be made to abase itself completely. According to the historian William McNeill, Western Europe during the so-called Age of Faith was the most warlike civilization on earth, with the exception of Japan. Instead, it would return European civilization back to a period of darkness not witnessed since the Middle Ages. Crawford leads them in plunging back into the river whose waters fed the first civilization. The two activities include a special tennis tournament and a tour in the lower northeastern region to learn about the civilization of Khmers in the old days. Hall, the foremost child psychologist in the United States, argued that the child recapitulated the stages of evolution of the human race, from pre-savagery to civilization. Sir Steven may well be the prototype of the modern revisionist historian who seeks to recast the history of Western civilization as a catalogue of abuses. We are so covered with layers and layers of refinement, of social polish, of airs and graces and civilization and pretensions that the human in us almost ceases to exist. If you thought qualifications for being a hermit were a tendency toward solitude and dislike of civilization, think again. To its proponents Andhra was the meridian, after 600 years of division and dispersal, of Telugu civilization. The art installation suggests the continuity and fragility of Mediterranean civilization, reminding us of the simultaneous remoteness and seamlessness of the past. While few details of the screenplay, written by Gibson himself, have been released, the story concerns an ancient civilization 3000 years in the past. At the same time, it is the hallmark of brilliant people whatever their civilization, epoch, or area of expertise. An antediluvian civilization, thriving and technologically advanced prior to the flood, managed to survive the flood due to their technological prowess. And like civilization itself, it might all start on the banks of the Euphrates. Show More Sentences It's not a liberal idea that will cause the ruination of civilization. Scholars at one time assumed that the arrival of the Apaches and Navajos played a role in the abandonment of those ancient centers of civilization. They occupy the liminal space between us and other, civilization and barbarism, human and beast, the real and the imaginary, attraction and repulsion. With its roots in early Western scholarship, it was this view, of a great Aryan race and civilization, that later became popular with Hindu nationalists. In the birthplace of civilization, we have again run aground on the rocky shoals of nationalism, this time augmented by a religious fervor that increases the danger. In an ominous sign for Western civilization, Bills fans began parking RVs and mobile homes in the stadium lot on Thursday night to get the best spots for tailgating. And to let you comprehend whether you are heir to that civilization or spouting hot air about it. Advances such as papermaking, printing technology, the magnetic compass for navigation and gunpowder propelled human civilization to greater heights many generations later. Both knew their civilization was headed for a rude awakening soon. We have the half-breed, the result of the union between the Indian, the representative of savagery, and the white man, the representative of civilization. In the male mythical imagination women are repeatedly associated with nature rather than culture, savagery rather than civilization, the wild rather than the tame. Not that Western civilization has never embraced the mythical Inuit practice of leaving the old out on an ice floe. These remarks record the preeminent level of struggle against the loss of civilization brought on by the invasion of the barbarian hordes of Western Europe. And yes, sometimes you fight to give people freedom only to discover that the people choose not to choose, or that they choose barbarism to civilization. And like past challenges to civilization, such barbarism thrives on Western appeasement and considers enlightened deference as weakness, if not decadence. During the end of the fourth millennium BC, the southern part of the Persian Gulf was dominated by the Dilmun civilization. At about 3300 BC, the historical record opens in Northern Africa with the rise of literacy in the Pharaonic civilization of Ancient Egypt. In Mesoamerica, the Teotihuacan civilization fell and the Classic Maya collapse occurred. This change would eventually lead, some 4000 to 5000 years later, to the first city states and eventually the rise of civilization itself. It was necessary for them to rediscover fire, to relearn the basic laws of economics and rebuild civilization out of the ashes of ruin. Show More Sentences From the beginning of civilization to the Middle Ages, people were immured, or walled in, and would die for want of food. Its basin was the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization, and it was the most prosperous region in early Chinese history. Traditionally, it is believed that the Chinese civilization originated in the Yellow River basin. In some cases slate was used by the ancient Maya civilization to fashion stelae. And he was just taking byways and sideways, travelling in the peripheries of civilization, yeah? Like most sensible sophonts, they invented civilization. With civilization came civility, civil service, and of course civil war. As a member of civilization in good standing, I reject both the nowness and the thenness of the generations. A depression in one nation can become the slide on which our civilization would toboggan into economic collapse. The free way will call for uttermosts in civilization, self-discipline and human excellence. The Western movies, of course, are not cultural visions, but the vicious encounters with the antiselves of civilization, the invented savage. For 200 years, Turks tried to change their civilization by making Turkey more Westernized. Then, Aksumite civilization is presented via a series of chapters, each focusing on a specific cultural aspect. The Amazonomachia, or Amazon contest, symbolized the struggle of civilization against barbarism. The partitions came to be seen in Poland as a Polish sacrifice for the security for Western civilization. They had effectively used the arch in various aspects of their civilization and city structure. That was clear between the Delmon civilization here and the Harappa civilization in India. This knowledge had a major impact on the architecture of Roman civilization. To fully understand this development however it is important to understand the importance of basic arches in Roman civilization. By the end of his civilization he had discovered that a man cannot enjoy himself and continue to enjoy anything else. The rediscovery of Roman culture revitalized Western civilization, playing a role in the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment. Show More Sentences Ancient Roman cuisine changed over the long duration of this ancient civilization. Late Antiquity saw various indicators of Roman civilization begin to decline, including urbanization, seaborne commerce, and total population. And they currently have forty-two ships searching for an immotile civilization beyond the region of space we Firewalled. It was also the combined and elaborated civilization of the Mediterranean basin and beyond. There can be no civilization on the basis of unreality, of what we have called Docetism. These people may have had some relation to the subsequent development of the Iberian civilization. Some have argued that we can never disinvent nuclear weapons and thus will have to live with them as long as civilization exists. Other peoples had been in prolonged contact with the Roman civilization, and were, to a certain degree, romanized. The civilization collapsed for reasons that are still unknown. In the simpler case of northern heathenry the civilization spread with a simplier progress. Without such liberties, no civilization is free of its inquisitional tendencies. The robber barons of the Middle Ages were perfectly sure that civilization would go to the bow-wows if they were interfered with. With this loss of Amerindian civilization, did the Caribs develop a centring strategy to reorder their world? Their information included 8,000-yearold sediment data that predate civilization along the northern Adriatic and western Baltic seas. Tools and tool-making have been around since the dawn of civilization but power tools for less than a century. Such maladjustments intimate, as it were, that civilization is more or less allergic to itself. They ensure the continuity of civilization by propagating the species and socializing children. She was an earthy soul, the salt of the earth as they say of such rural folk, untarnished by false civilization. The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy. He observed using astrotechnology at his disposal to search out a civilization using updated technology. Show More Sentences It was the world's first literate civilization, and formed the first sets of written laws. Europe, in particular ancient Greece, was the birthplace of Western civilization. Tournier's Robinson chooses to remain on the island, rejecting civilization when offered the chance to escape 28 years after being shipwrecked. The lesson to be drawn from the events of 1914, to Roosevelt's mind, was that civilization needed muscle to defend it, not just solemn words. The most prosperous period of the Cretan civilization was Neopalatial period and most of the artefacts are from this era. The history of art is often told as a chronology of masterpieces created in each civilization. After the Olmec culture declined, the Maya civilization became prominent in the region. Eastern civilization broadly includes Asia, and it also includes a complex tradition of art making. Thamud is the name of an ancient civilization in the Hejaz known from the 1st millennium BC to near the time of Muhammad. Voltaire and the Marquise also studied history, particularly those persons who had contributed to civilization. He was the first to emphasize the debt of medieval culture to Middle Eastern civilization, but otherwise was weak on the Middle Ages. The Bronze Age on the Indian subcontinent began around 3300 BC with the beginning of the Indus Valley civilization. The Minoan civilization based in Knossos on the island of Crete appears to have coordinated and defended its Bronze Age trade. The Moche civilization of South America independently discovered and developed bronze smelting. Yemen is a culturally rich country with influence from many civilizations, such as the early civilization of Sheba. Lewis wished to demonstrate how Welsh heritage was linked as one of the 'founders of European civilization. Humans have historically tended to separate civilization from wildlife in a number of ways including the legal, social, and moral sense. The minerals and metals found in rocks have been essential to human civilization. Since the beginning of civilization people have used stone and ceramics and, later, metals found on or close to the Earth's surface. There was not much interest among the Portuguese people in an isolated archipelago so far from civilization. Show More Sentences In the later Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, under the Minoans, Crete had a highly developed, literate civilization. The volcanic eruption of Thera may have been the cause of the downfall of the Minoan civilization. Crete has a rich mythology mostly connected with the ancient Greek Gods but also connected with the Minoan civilization. Whilst each civilization emphasized its ideological autonomy, all were identifiably part of a common world of interacting components. The ethos is all too easily misunderstood as an overprecious, bloodless, mindless civilization. His accounts of India are among the oldest records of Indian civilization by an outsider. Hanson and Heath estimate that Plato's rejection of the Homeric tradition was not favorably received by the grassroots Greek civilization. At the time of the Spanish conquest, the Muisca were the largest native civilization geographically between the Incas and the Aztecs empires. The early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, Maya, Greece and Rome were some of the cradles of civilization. As urbanization, civilization, and division of labor spread, various societies moved to other economic systems at various times. In the 8th century BC, Greece began to emerge from the Dark Ages which followed the fall of the Mycenaean civilization. The civilization of ancient Greece has been immensely influential on language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. For most of the history of civilization, these preconditions did not exist, and taxes were based on other factors. One language, Interlingua, was developed so that the languages of Western civilization would act as its dialects. Crop alteration has been practiced by humankind for thousands of years, since the beginning of civilization. Each of these centers of early civilization developed a unique and characteristic style in its art. The use of tools contributes to human culture and was key to the rise of civilization. The history of civilization as well as ethnology are to be brought into the comparison. The ancient Egyptians were probably the first civilization to develop special tools to make rope. The subsequent Bronze Age civilizations of Greece and the Aegean Sea have given rise to the general term Aegean civilization. Show More Sentences The Scythians, arriving with their own type of Iron Age civilization, put a stop to these relations with the West. He then discusses the dramatic effect of Western civilization on others in the past 500 years of history. Meanwhile, the work of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos in Crete revealed the ancient existence of an equally advanced Minoan civilization. Even within a literate civilization many events and important human practices are not officially recorded. Some people will consider their national heroes to be pioneers of civilization. By the beginning of the Iron Age the Etruscans emerged as the dominant civilization on the Italian peninsula. Beginning in the 8th century BC, Ancient Greek traders brought their civilization to the trade emporiums in Tanais and Phanagoria. This they had to do in order to make up for the parsimony of nature, and out of it all came their high civilization. His opinion was that they were generally responsible for what is the best in European civilization. The 20th century may have seen more technological and scientific progress than all the other centuries combined since the dawn of civilization. They overthrew the Aztec civilization by allying with natives who had been subjugated by more powerful neighbouring tribes and kingdoms. Each region possesses its own specificities, thus contributing to the national culture and to the legacy of civilization. This account of his journeys provides a picture of medieval civilization that is still widely consulted today. It is generally regarded as a high point in Chinese civilization, and a golden age of cosmopolitan culture. The Western medical tradition often traces roots directly to the early Greek civilization, much like the foundation of all of Western society. The oil became a principal product of the Minoan civilization, where it is thought to have represented wealth. The Inca civilization arose from the highlands of Peru sometime in the early 13th century. The Inca Empire was unique in that it lacked many features associated with civilization in the Old World. The Inca Empire was the last chapter of thousands of years of Andean civilization. The Incas formed this civilization through imperialistic militarism as well as careful and meticulous governmental management. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of civilization? Words that rhyme with civilization What is the plural of civilization? What is the adverb for civilization? What is the adjective for civilization? What is the noun for civilization? Translations for civilization Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words civility civilities civilising civilised civilise civilisations Civilization civilizational civilizations civilize civilized civilizer 12-letter Words Starting With c ci civ civi civil civili civiliz civiliza civilizat civilizati civilizatio