Sentences with phrase «roman civilization»

My conception of Roman civilization, and its demise, is a very material one, which in itself probably renders it unfashionable....

Editor's Note: This article has been updated to correct a line suggesting 100 B.C. was the heyday of the Roman Empire, rather it should've referred to the «Roman civilization.»

In their Oct. 3 study detailed in the journal Nature, the researchers found that methane production was high around 100 B.C., during the heyday of the Roman civilization, and waned around A.D. 200 as the empire faltered.

His work is both meaningful in historical terms, reminiscent of Roman civilization ending right there at Hadrian's wall, and in a contemporary political sense, provoking a thinking on what this border means for England and Scotland today.

Contemporary events and arrangements as well as salient history — 9/11 and the arc of Roman civilization, for instance — inform Ford's sensibility.

Taken together, they represent China's «classical» era, coinciding in time and importance with Greco - Roman civilization in the West.

In this one Tarzan finds a pocket of Roman civilization in the jungle (just go with it

In this one Tarzan finds a pocket of Roman civilization in the jungle (just go with it.)

The concept of the Western part of Earth has its roots in Greco - Roman civilization in Europe, and the advent of Christianity.

Far less well known are the religions of the agricultural communities that preceded the advance of Greco - Roman civilization.

During its twelve - century existence, the Roman civilization shifted from a monarchy to an oligarchic republic to a vast empire.

He mentions the Americas at some length in his work, but mainly as a recapitulation of the earlier episode of Christian triumph when pagan Roman civilization was successfully converted and civilized.

It has sometimes been told in modern times as an episode in the struggle between Roman imperialism and Jewish nationalism; or between the cosmopolitan, secular «ideology» of Graeco - Roman civilization and the religious isolationism of the Jews.

To this topic we now turn, for, just as the ancient Roman calendar disappeared with the decay of Roman civilization, the decline of Christian civilization may ultimately lead to the adoption of a new and non-Christian calendar for universal use around the globe.

The Roman civilization into which the Church was born was proud of its open - minded attitude toward all religions.

As time passed they conformed to such Roman civilization, badly garbled, as survived, and conformation included incorporation in the Roman Catholic Church.

Finally, I really appreciated his explanation of how the practice of Roman crucifixion was reserved for the worst criminals of Roman civilization (p. 30 - 31).

As for Greco - Roman civilization, it was based squarely on slave labor, and one of the profoundest differences between the ancient Mediterranean culture and our own is that there slavery was taken for granted along with a growing consciousness of the moral compromise it involved with man's best ideals, while with us liberty is taken for granted along with deep ethical discontent at the parallels of slavery, or worse, which exist under the wage system.

Although in part identified with Greco - Roman civilization, this was because, being born into the Greco - Roman world, it won that world first and not because by its original genius it was best adapted to it.

Western society is based on Greek and Roman civilization and they stole everything from the black Africans.

Christendom rose Out of the death of the Graeco - Roman civilization and advanced to maturity during the Middle Ages.

This kind of ABERRATIONS & PERVERSIONS, were just a matter of time coming, to a GRECO - ROMAN civilization.

Well, remember, this is Paul who is writing, and he lived about 2000 years ago during the peak of the Roman civilization.

The first was how to quickly integrate the whole population of Roman civilization into the church.

And this same standard — «noble wisdom,» for want of a better term — was the foundation and mortar of Roman civilization.

It was in Western Europe, where it faced a much weaker paganism, was associated with the prestige of Roman civilization, and, while often favored by civil rulers, did not have to confront a continuously powerful state which controlled all phases of life, that the influence of Jesus was most marked.

Indeed our memories of our own Christian tradition will show us how extensively we have already assimilated other histories into our Christian memory, especially the history of Greco - Roman civilization.

In the short term, Downey said that researchers should look for critical slowing down before more recent major collapses, like the Mayan and Roman civilizations.

It was well known in Greek and Roman civilizations.

Long ago in the ancient timeperiods of Greek and Roman civilizations, there were these Theological Philosophers who made stories as to just exactly what was the smallest things and their roles in the meanings of Life.

Although cruciferous vegetables were not staple foods of our Paleolithic ancestors, they earned a reputation as medicinal plants among Greek and Roman civilizations and achieved widespread distribution throughout Europe during the Middle Ages.

The deposits in the Gulf of Mexico have an uncanny resemblance to those deposits found in estuaries and sea beds close to the Mycenaean and Roman civilizations, temporally close to their collapse.

Not exact matches

The Googlers at Facebook were a bit like the Greeks during the rise of the Roman Empire: They brought lots of civilization and tech culture with them, but it was clear who was going to run the world in the near future.

Most of us instinctively assume that technology relentlessly marches forward, but there have been times before now in human history — after the Egyptians built the Pyramids, for instance, or after the multiple advances of the Roman Empire — when the civilizations that followed could no longer do what had been done before, and perhaps there's a complacency and arrogance in assuming that this won't happen again.

In his 12 minute broadcast, he traces the history of escalating taxation and the role it played in the devastation of the once great civilizations in China, Spain, Greece, and the Roman Empire.

Read Rodney Stark's «The Rise of Christianity» to get a realistic view of the radical changes Christianity brought about in the Roman Empire... many of which are * assumed * as rights in modern Western Civilization.

They strengthened the tradition, probably in part an expression of the practical Roman spirit and partly derived from Jesus himself, which made Christianity in the West a more effective force for molding civilization than was Christianity in the East.

Because the odds of «dangerous» ideas espoused by a carpenter walking around, preaching in an occupied land peacefully overtaking the Roman Empire (the most powerful man - made force on the planet at the time) and shaping civilization, Western and beyond, are almost as remote as the odds of you forgoing your delusional confidence in your ability for rational thought or facts, giving him credit for being exactly who he said he was.

The Syllabus of Errors, issued in 1864 under the auspices of Pope Pius IX, famously ends by condemning the proposition that «The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization.»

Roman culture and civilization, had little appeal for him and sheer naked force seems to have been his favorite political tool.

On the far side of the gap lay the Roman Empire, the final embodiment of the older civilization.

Henceforth, the unified Christian civilization could continue under the protectorate of the Roman bishop.

Christianity in particular has been interpreted as the religious experience of the peoples of Europe, constantly nourished by the life, teaching and personality of Jesus of Nazareth, and as the dominant force in the unit of Western civilization, holding together its constitutive Hebrew, Greco - Roman and Germanic elements.

Such was the ways of the spartans, greeks, romans and many others civilizations.

Who cares if the Roman Empire was indeed the «pinnacle of civilization» at that time, there were other humans living in other regions on every continent.

So in her conclusion she highlights some of the accomplishments of Byzantine civilization: an imperial government built on a trained civilian administration and tax system; a legal structure based on Roman law; a curriculum of secular education that preserved classical learning; theological thought, artistic expression, and spiritual traditions that are still alive in the Orthodox churches; and coronation and court rituals that were adopted by other rulers.

In Western Europe the disintegration of the Roman Empire and of the associated civilization had gone much further than in the portion of that realm which had its capital on the Bosporus.

Other civilizations had everything Roman / Greek had and far more, but not the Bible.

stayed with the Roman / Greek stuff, you were no different from any ancient civilization and thus would not have risen as the superpower.

Even more than the Roman Catholic Church, Protestantism rose to the challenge and came to the year 1914 with improved morale in Western Europe, with a mounting effect on civilization, and with relatively a more extensive geographic expansion than any other branch of Christianity.