Sentences with phrase «earlier human civilization»

Finally, the discovery and use of fossil fuels enabled humans to escape the backbreaking manual work that characterized earlier human civilization by allowing the development of modern economies with all the conveniences that energy use makes possible in high income countries.

That theism has existed in some form since the earliest human civilizations, it appears evident that a concept of God has been a necessary part our philosophical understanding of the world and our relationships to it.

They didn't have any knowledge of nutrition, they weren't able to eat nutritious, calorie dense food whenever they wanted due to the absence of agriculture, and their immune systems were likely weaker than ours (living together in large numbers placed enormous selective pressure on our early agricultural ancestors to develop strong immune systems, keep in mind that early human civilizations did not have indoor plumbing... so they were sometimes exposed to fecal matter both from fellow humans and from livestock and they didn't have the kinds of disinfectants and anti-biotics we have today,) so for them to have serious health complications makes perfect sense, nature can be very harsh and doesn't care how long its been since your last meal or what your calorie and micro nutrient needs are... a lot of people died at very young ages back then simply because they got sick and didn't have proper medical treatment or due to malnutrition or starvation.

The geographical area that today is Iraq is regarded by historians as the site of some of the earliest human civilizations, including the Sumerians (who lived between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia, a Greek word meaning land between the two rivers).

But many of these are still new worlds, and like all early human civilizations in the real world, and in times of advancement or change, we will need ways of understanding and interacting with these worlds in meaningful and generative ways.

This study fills in the crucial post-ice age time during early human civilization.

Since its launch on PC in 1997, the Age of Empires franchise has explored early human civilization all the way up to Colonial America, and has even examined legendary creatures and lore.

Not exact matches

For centuries, and perhaps dating back to our earliest civilizations, humans have taken to organizing around a central authority or power.

Fact, the dinosaurs existed 65 million years ago... human civilizations can be dated back from 1200 bce and earlier.

And Schweitzer had grasped, from his very earliest days, the truth that all culture, all human interchange and social life, what we comprehensively call civilization, springs from nothing more substantial than our visions and dreams, our religious beliefs and convictions.

It is universally recognized that the long story from our earliest remains of human life onward through the great civilizations of the ancient east witnessed remarkable advances.

If King's conception of the Deity or deities that inhabit our solar system is that possessed by a primitive tribe of hunter - gatherers or by one of the earliest of civilizations, one of half - human gods (chimeras) or monsters, little concerned with the fate of humanity, both capricious and threatening («As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport»), that is interesting from an anthropological perspective, but what does it have to do with «first things»?

Earlier in his remark, the Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo admonished the new monarch not to see his position as a clarion call to serve his subjects not only in Ile - Ife but in the entire world as the ancient town represents the cradle of black race and human civilization.

The gifts included luxury goods from across the empire, artifacts from earlier civilizations and the remains of thousands of humans and animals — many sacrificed atop the pyramid during lavish ceremonies.

Göğüş highlights the links of the tectonics with human history saying, «The findings are exciting also because of the link with the remarkable historical human activity of Central Anatolia where some of the earliest known civilizations have existed.

Humans acquired many of the diseases that have been among the deadliest, historically, from the livestock domesticated in the early years of civilization.

This suggests that the earliest humans to make their homes in the New World, including people from the Clovis civilization, must have taken a very different route.

Modern human - driven forces, like climate change and pollution, are «orders of magnitude more destructive than what early humans were doing,» Lyons said, but even at the dawn of human civilizations, people were certainly having major — and unprecedented — ecological impacts, she said.

Many experts agree that humans can live without whole grains, and evolution apparently agreed, as early civilizations of man did not have access to grains and managed to thrive and survive.

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Cats began their unique relationship with humans 10,000 to 12,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, the geographic region where some of the earliest developments in human civilization occurred (encompassing modern day parts of West Asia).

Trace the footsteps of early humans as we explore the cradle of civilization in southwest France and on Spain's northern coast.

By some accounts it was pushed by a German advisory panel back in the early 1990s, who argued that letting temperatures rise more than 2 °C (3.6 °F) would bring us outside the temperature range that allowed human civilization to flourish in the first place.

They found that the lake was six times larger and water levels were 60 meters higher than present during the early and middle Holocene — the period beginning about 11,700 years ago, and encompassing the development of human civilization.

Humans have been engulfed into various habits which tends to have adverse effects on their health and well being.Drinking, smoking, drugs have been a part of human civilization from early times.

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