Sentences with phrase «cultures during their decline»
Europe could of course bequeath its gifts to a new emerging culture — following the example set by previous cultures during their decline — but as a historical subject its life cycle had effectively ended.
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During the Ottoman rule Muslim culture declined in Egypt because of the belief of the rulers that the study of philosophy, geography, mathematics, and related fields would lead to heresy.
While Jarmusch mostly described it as a romance during the NYFF Q&A, that feels like only one facet of a layered film that says so much about culture and its erosion, idols, nostalgia, civilization's decline, and art.
The site is of modest scale and was built during the post Classic period when the Mayan culture was in decline and therefore lacks the elegance of some other famous Mayan ruins.
«That Rothko's images possess a distopian air during a post-utopian era of economic decline does require us to account for them in relation to the desolate culture of the urban scene, a conception of the city that is often expressed in turn as the experience of a peculiar space.
Their culture was at its finest during 750 until 1300, after 1300 the culture declined until they disappeared around 1600.