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Sentence Examples If civilisation lay in ruins, then there was a momentous opportunity to sweep away this heap of broken images and start afresh. Hidden from civilisation and resisting all attempts at contact, they had kept to themselves. They seem so remote, although in reality civilisation is never very far away. It was this Temple which first predicted the deluge destined to destroy the Atlantean civilisation. Conflicts are fought by nation states for the benefit of the state, not the civilisation. I have managed to unearth yet more weird and almost unbelievable tales from this strange civilisation. Yes, I initiated the Odantalan project, which has at the core of the creative process the ancient writing systems from the Kongo civilisation. As soon as civilisation invented writing, stories began to be recorded on paper. This is a civilisation we have been fighting against and with for the best part of 700 years. It has been the land of mighty empires, a powerful trading nation rich in culture and civilisation. The objects date mostly from the great Bronze Age of the Bactrian civilisation. As the cradle of western civilisation, it is also your big fat spiritual home. Mother Afrika is the cradle of civilisation and not those geographic entities. A parental search party found us shivering and cowering in the scrub and marched us back to civilisation. I had made my escape from Alcatraz, survived the storm-tossed Irish sea, and was back in civilisation, or a decent approximation thereof. It sought to understand Australian history more broadly as a transplantation of European civilisation. As a thorough break from London's quotidian chaos, whilst retaining all the trappings of urban civilisation, I can recommend it thoroughly. So at half past three we had the fun of trying to get back to civilisation. In a civilisation which boasts of panchayati raj in 5000 BC, democracy is still in its infancy. So bread came before agriculture and agriculture came before culture and civilisation. Show More Sentences The gentleness of English civilisation is mixed up with barbarities and anachronisms. Based on Mars, The Mysterons are sentient computers constructed by an alien civilisation. The lake was the cradle of Andean civilisation and remains enduringly known as the birthplace of the Inca empire. Some are remote from modern civilisation, others survive cheek by jowl with spreading towns and motorways. The society was so singular, so unique, so finely skewed between wilderness and civilisation. It would signal the triumph of French civilisation over the despised rosbifs. European civilisation became enormously dynamic, expansionist and future-oriented, with an unbounded belief in human progress. The art forms that emerged in the early period of civilisation are primitive and catered to a people who had no alternative. The only sign of civilisation was an ancient taverna wedged on the rocks, and so we moored the boat and headed in for lunch. Will we retreat to leave the ungrateful natives to their savagery, having spurned the gifts of our civilisation? An unexplained radio signal from deep space just might be contact from an alien civilisation. You can imagine an alien civilisation observing this strange scene and finding it fascinating or amusing. Thracians were an intergral part of the evolution of ancient Mediterranean civilisation. It was a bit unusual to find a Hellenic civilisation 50 miles off the South West coast of the USA like that. Roman civilisation was quickly adopted by the Helvetians when Switzerland was conquered by Julius Caesar. Hittite, for example, died out when its civilisation disappeared in Old Testament times. The author goes on to note that many aspects of Western civilisation overlapped with fascism. Its origin can be traced to the Indus Valley civilisation when the people used homespun cotton for weaving. Is it not the duty of governments to take action against immoralist philosophers who are undermining civilisation? Our very civilisation depends on our knowing that we are being told the truth on matters of war and peace. Show More Sentences A brilliant historian, he switched his academic focus from French civilisation to human emotions, and has even been a novelist. But I had estimated the distance accurately and I reached civilisation well before the dark. Yet as we rejoin modern civilisation in the city of Newcastle, this is not the final impression we are left with of our trip. This makes life a bit difficult for the daytime angler, as it is a long drive from civilisation. The arrival of big game hunters in regions previously untrodden by Europeans was seen as the harbinger of civilisation. Rationalists have over the centuries and under different nomenclatures given lead to the struggle for civilisation. Is this then the end of the long march of human civilisation, this spiritual suicide, this quiet putrefaction of the soul into matter? Churchill was right to say that a fair and equitable penal system lies at the heart of a healthy civilisation. I'd never have explored the Tamil area, or written about their civilisation now destroyed, extinguished. They blamed extremists bent on damaging democracy and western civilisation. They should have looked at the bottom line and said civilisation was not worth the candle. Ever since, the legacy of Helen has haunted Western civilisation, and especially that half of it made up of women. Yet, just as in a Chinese painting, the wildness of the scene, and its strangeness, accentuates the impression of harmony and civilisation. The Babylonian civilisation in Mesopotamia replaced the Sumerian civilisation and the Akkadian civilisation. Agriculture allowed for specialisation in human endeavour, which allowed for civic centres to start, the centres that gave us civilisation. Conquest of nature is fundamental to human progress, and at the centre of the development of civilisation. The development of human civilisation is intimately bound up with the domestication of cereals. Rather than advancing human civilisation, as it had in the past period, it now threatened mankind with the most terrible forms of barbarism. No advance in civilisation may even be imaginable without some contact between cultures. Popular culture is decadent and degenerate, and we're doomed as a civilisation to a relentless decline into inauthentic, commercialised pap. Show More Sentences And this time, the defeat of a civilisation will have been inflicted by its own side. Nobody wants or wishes to perish in an anonymous, faceless, globally uniform civilisation. Life expectancy is looked on as a measure of civilisation, if not the principal index of cultural achievement. It would be unscriptural, however, to interpret poverty and abundance by the materialistic standards of contemporary Western civilisation. Constantinople, now Istanbul, is probably rivalled only by Rome as the central hub shaping European and world history since civilisation began. The New Testament injunctions to turn the other cheek and love thy neighbour were a great advance in civilisation. The battle for civilisation is not going to end with an armistice or some form of negotiated settlement. He tackles the question of why settlements would only have been established on the coasts, with no inland traces of civilisation. In this story the Britons and Romans were defeated by the Saxons and sailed away to South America to start a civilisation called Roman America. The veneer of civilisation that covers the beast within us is thin and can be damaged easily. You cannot claim to be an educated person, while remaining ignorant of these basic building blocks of our civilisation. Cumulatively, however, the proliferation of obscurantist bunkum and the reaction against reason are a menace to civilisation. Throughout history, and across every culture and civilisation, male virility and fertility have always been venerated. For it is in this crucible of learning and study that all previous achievements of civilisation will be put to shame. While politicians froth that crime threatens our civilisation, what amazes me is how lawful we are. If pre-emption replaces deterrence as the fulcrum of global engineering, then the boundary blurs between the forces of civilisation and terror. Any civilisation requires regular repeating cycles in order to be able to function properly. They are older than the Pyramids, arguably even more important in the history of civilisation, and, may I dare say, more impressive. Yet the rejection of elemental decencies and self-respect on which their society is predicated amounts to a collapse of civilisation. The Arts and Crafts Festival will bring to its patrons the traditional Indian crafts with a heritage going back to the dawn of civilisation. Show More Sentences It is surely preposterous that modern civilisation as we know it would not only collapse but also leave no reliable account of its fate. That over-irrigation condemned Mesopotamia in West Asia, once the cradle of civilisation, to barrenness for the last three thousand years, does not deter them. Well, nothing will more convince you that the whole of western civilisation is utterly, howlingly, stark-staringly, foamingly doolally than the collection will. Human civilisation has developed at an exponential rate since the renaissance, during a time when the environment has been in a relatively benign state. The words reflect the belief that the world was divided into a central and superior Chinese civilisation, and a peripheral, inferior barbarian outland. That is why we have to insist, by force if necessary, that everyone else in the world also respect, and enforce, the minimum standards of civilisation and human rights. Driving through a land which has been intensively farmed since the dawn of civilisation, we soon reached the Ghab, a rich agricultural valley which had once been marshland. Mick said how lucky it was that the trip went ahead because while they were lunching at a secluded quay, away from civilisation, they heard children screaming and shouting. It is said that, Poseidon, the god of the seas, gave the sunken civilisation the power to exist and flourish beneath the sea, until it could be returned to its former glory. Yet many proponents of universal suffrage were just as deluded, in their own way, as the Adullamites who clung to their rotten boroughs as if civilisation depended on them. Our society has reached its advanced stage of civilisation by developing within a framework of rules, regulations and standards, manifested most obviously in the rule of law. This decay must betoken the doom of modern civilisation as it did that of Rome and Greece, unless some new moral or physical factors arise to defeat it. Why has Indian civilisation survived over the years, instead of going the way of the Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Babylonian civilisations? For thousands of years, music has played an important role in human civilisation, from religious and pagan ceremonies to rituals and social events. It is also a history of change and decay, of accepting some components of an incoming civilisation and rejecting others and refashioning them in a new and familiar guise. Above all, it faced the progressive movement of the civilisation of the book, enveloping discordance like the resolving refrain of a Beethoven sonata. They're our nearest neighbours, and together we've been the greatest force for civilisation and economic and social development the world has ever seen. Contrary to the fantasies of romantic primitivism, civilisation and development have made our species more knowledgeable and sensitive about the workings of nature. Greek mythology as we have it developed during the Greek Dark Ages, between the fall of the Minoan civilisation and the rise of classical Hellenism. Literate North India, for its part, laments the transformation of a Delhi that was once a byword for elegant poetry, Mughal manners and courtly civilisation. Show More Sentences The people trampling over Babylon, ignorantly stamping out the fragile remains of a centuries-old civilisation, were soldiers, not archaeologists. They can erase the traces of human settlement with such vigour that, often, nothing remains of a civilisation except a few potsherds, coins and glass beads. The reign of the pharaoh Amenhotep III marks the zenith of ancient Egyptian civilisation, both in terms of political power and cultural achievement. It is horrifying that so many conscienceless psychopaths seized their moment to behave like animals once the rules of modern civilisation broke down. The Yucatan peninsula is a fascinating area covered by dense jungle and swamps, criss-crossed with rivers and scattered with ruins from the Mayan civilisation. We are, after all, the last bastion of civilisation, are we not? Is it possible that in some far-off galaxy as yet beyond our ken creatures very different but perhaps far superior to us in intelligence live in a civilisation of their own? They are a sign of civilisation, of stability and continuity, of order. The ancient Romans are often seen as bringing civilisation to the western world, but they regarded the slaying of gladiators as a normal form of entertainment. The destruction of femininity is an erosion of civilisation. Until and unless this fact is grasped, along with the profound moral inversion that it has caused throughout the west, we will not win this fight for civilisation. But underneath the veneer of civilisation are the realities of the war. Now, whether you seek our civilisation in religion, language, values, aesthetics or habits of thought, you get only a myth or a sniff of it, never the real thing. It foreshadows the surrealists, as he shows the monkeys playing in the jungle with a backscratcher and a milk bottle, trappings of civilisation in the savage world. British archaeologists are enriched not impoverished if one of their colleagues from another country unearths a key bit of the jigsaw of an ancient civilisation. A woman in labour was air-lifted from Ruatahuna to Rotorua Hospital, while about 30 people are cut off from civilisation in Ruatoki after access roads were washed out. With a grunting groaning sound the old jeep started up again, and they began the bumpy journey south to civilisation, leaving clouds of red dust to settle behind. There is a brief introduction to Greece and Greek civilisation. A bicipital axe was a cultic physical object of the Minoan civilisation. Poland traditionally thinks of itself as the frontier of European civilisation, a bulwark against the east, with its Orthodox church and Cyrillic script. Show More Sentences Over the next thousand years, by 1500, they'd developed quite an advanced civilisation, and most of us know it by the massive statues that line the coast. Most come from rural backgrounds and are poorly educated, handicaps for anyone who wants to get ahead in the modern urban-commercial civilisation. He admires Asante civilisation, but recognises that this kingdom succeeded in remaining independent for so long because it sold slaves in return for European guns. However coming home from a mining town to civilisation is a great relief. She had taught at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, from 1976-2000, specialising in the Indus civilisation, urbanisation, trade and pastoralism. A common culture, calendar, and mythology held the civilisation together and astronomy played an important part in the religion which underlay the whole life of the people. Unlike some people, I don't think peak oil will destroy civilisation. Regarding their own civilisation as superior, the Lombards did indeed provide the environment for the illustrious Schola Medica Salernitana. The history of Hellenism and Judaism is a history of interaction between the two cultures that heavily influenced the western civilisation. The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, historically known as Mesopotamia, is often referred to as the cradle of civilisation. The volcanic explosion of Thera was thought to have badly affected which civilisation? Further finds come from the advanced civilisation preserved in the pile dwellings in Switzerland. Between about 2500 BC and 250 AD, the basic institutions of Maya civilisation emerged. If correct, it would mean the Dilmun civilisation was one of the first in the ancient world to use a solar calendar. Along the Rhine itself were a number of cities constituting the interface between Roman and Germanic civilisation. Various disordered conditions consequent upon overwork, which are characteristic of modern civilisation. The conference, this year, will focus on Dravidians art, culture, literature and civilisation. This question of the part played by culture in a civilisation prompts the similar question of the role of snobbism. Crete was once the centre of the Minoan civilisation, which is regarded as the earliest recorded civilisation in Europe. If you're of the same vintage as me, you know that this is the pinnacle of western civilisation, a cultural milestone and a sacred cow. Show More Sentences Adolf Hitler read Human Heredity shortly before he wrote Mein Kampf, and called it scientific proof of the racial basis of civilisation. As the Roman civilisation grew in importance and expanded its trade with the Celtic world, silver and bronze coinage became more common. Morocco later became a realm of the North African civilisation of ancient Carthage as part of its empire. This civilisation collapsed at the start of the second millennium BCE and was later followed by the Iron Age Vedic Civilisation. The first urban civilisation of the region began with the Indus Valley Civilisation. As one of the oldest religious institutions in the world, it has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilisation. We see the growth of justice and the deepening of civilisation. Early monasteries throughout Europe helped preserve Greek and Roman classical civilisation. Morocco is an ethnically diverse country with a rich culture and civilisation. The Church eventually became the dominant influence in Western civilisation into the modern age. The Champa civilisation was located in what is today central Vietnam, and was a highly Indianised Hindu Kingdom. Egyptian civilisation is renowned for its colossal pyramids, temples and monumental tombs. If no price is paid for such excesses, our civilisation will certainly suffer and suffer permanently. Originally polygamy could work both ways, but civilisation generally forbids simultaneous husbands. Other conspiracy theorists say the 67P comet contains the remnants of some ancient civilisation. The kingdom combines modern Arab culture and the archaeological legacy of five thousand years of civilisation. In this view, the early Indus Valley civilisation is often identified as having been Dravidian. The invasions destroyed most remnants of Roman civilisation in the areas held by the Saxons and related tribes, including the economic and religious structures. Thus, much of the learning of classical antiquity was slowly reintroduced to European civilisation in the centuries following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. Greece was followed by Rome, which left its mark on law, politics, language, engineering, architecture, government and many more key aspects in western civilisation. Show More Sentences He remained convinced that, despite this diversity, all humans were interrelated with a shared origin and potential for improvement towards civilisation. In the archaeological museum includes documents of Etruscan civilisation. In which country did the Toltec civilisation precede that of the Aztecs? Founders of civilisation, interim riparian cotenants of the River Nile and purveyors of the Cheops Pyramid thrice, I am proud to call myself a Couch Grouser. Considered a cradle of civilisation, Ancient Egypt saw some of the earliest developments of writing, agriculture, urbanisation, organised religion and central government. Before the emergence of the Swedish Empire, Sweden was a poor and scarcely populated country on the fringe of European civilisation, with no significant power or reputation. The Indus civilisation is one of three in the 'Ancient East' that, along with Mesopotamia and Pharonic Egypt, was a cradle of civilisation in the Old World. This week the subject is the end of the Minoan civilisation. The transition to farming was vital for the creation of civilisation. You'll also come out with a good start to a Japanese phrasebook and an insight into some of the key cultural concepts of that ancient civilisation. They culminate with Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, whose life provides a fitting grand finale to the first three millennia of this ancient civilisation. Ancient Greece was the founding culture of Western civilisation. The word reflected the mixture of condescension, contempt and fear the Greeks and Romans had for those who did not share their civilisation or values. Examples from Classical Literature The fact of the matter is that the hurry-scurry of modern civilisation is not conducive to artistic work of any description. If so, the growth of civilisation would have to begin again, but not ab initio. Between them lies the Lake of Titicaca, the centre of bygone Peruvian civilisation. He was eloquent on the moral uplift of a simple, old-world life presented in its entirety to a deboshed civilisation. The sloughing off of the veneer of civilisation was not rapid, but it was sure. Put ashore at Nitendi from a Hobart Town whaler for mutinous conduct, he had disassociated himself for ever from civilisation. I mean a girl of our civilisation which has established a dithyrambic phraseology for the expression of love. As the harbour was entered all eyes were agaze at this first contact with the civilisation of the Old World. The district of argol is first received colonies, who introduced civilisation into Greece. The Valley of Cuzco, the central region of Peru, was the cradle of their civilisation. This may have been the case with Danu, for in Celtic belief the gifts of civilisation came from the underworld or from the gods. Far nearer to st petersburg than the Asiatic frontier, civilisation is still at a very low ebb amongst the aboriginal tribes. He wanted quiet and was ever ill at ease among the superficialities of a hypocritical civilisation. They have not yet arrived at that precise stage of civilisation that develops the Rough, the larrikin, or the Hooligan. Their souls are like their bodies, hidden by the rags, foul with the dirt of what we miscall civilisation. Civilisation waits for himall-enfolding, all-instructing civilisation, and he stands face to Facebook in handwith his last chance. The recent discoveries of Glaser with reference to the early civilisation of Southern Arabia also bear on this point. The chimpanzee differs from the gorilla in his amenability to civilisation. Like the Annamese, they have attained a certain degree of civilisation, mainly due to the influence of India. Every advance in civilisation is synonymous with a progressive diminution of the differences. Show More Sentences They considered civilisation a failure because it was killing off all the big game. Or, to put it in other words, medival witchcraft was a byproduct of the civilisation of the Roman Empire. I was in a hurry to leave the store, the home of these two victims of civilisation. For is everything which is necessary to the progress of civilisation consequently also possible? It is at the price of lives such as these that the wonders of civilisation are achieved. The art of domesticating the claviger is a stage of civilisation reached by some tribes and not by others. Just as a case in point, the Carthaginians were a huge civilisation running in parallel with Rome. Their object is to annihilate civilisation by exterminating the civilised. The equality of poverty would have produced stagnation in civilisation. It was the beginning of the rout of civilisation, of the massacre of mankind. It is not in the nature of civilisation to exalt the savage. Egyptians were the first to discover watermelons 5,000 years ago and then shared them with the rest of civilisation in the 10th Century. At each stage some of the comforts of civilisation and peace reappeared. In another way Confucianism is opposed to Western civilisation. For this reason, the harvester is the best barometer of civilisation. Why am I here now, an outcast from civilisation, instead of being a happy man enjoying all the pleasures of London? Probably it was due to the enervating effects of civilisation. Without liberty and equal opportunity civilisation is a farce. To own one was equivalent to keeping a butler in civilisation. Buddhism, therefore, is not a power which makes actively for civilisation. Show More Sentences But don't tell me that'sh morality, don't tell me that'sh civilisation! I reflected that his was the calling which begot civilisation. Civilisation is not to contaminate it, for civilisation kills the native. It was an idea that had hitherto been rather smothered up by the cares of a competitive civilisation. The sin of plagiary is a development of modern civilisation. But this sad privilege has sprung from a necessity of civilisation. He felt that the work of civilisation was all to be done over again. That means that the story, one of many 'histories' to have emerged from Byzantine civilisation, has achieved a position of considerable importance in modern Greek culture. These are the poor, and amongst them there is no grace of manner, or charm of speech, or civilisation, or culture, or refinement in pleasures, or joy of life. Biggs is our greengrocer, and his chief talent lies in securing the services of the most abandoned and unprincipled errand-boys that civilisation has as yet produced. Here he was compelled to violate his instinct of self-preservation, and violate it he did, for he was becoming tame and qualifying himself for civilisation. What is for sure is that the highly advanced Mayan civilisation went into sudden decline around 1200 AD, when great stone cities such as Chichen Itza and Uxmal were abandoned. Find more words! 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