Sentences with phrase «first civilization»

The first Civilization released back in 1991 and since then we have been blessed (and cursed) with six numeric releases in the series but there has been numerous spin - offs and expansions released in between these releases.

After waging war for the freedom of Humanity and driving them back, Mankind and the first civilization was undone by a very powerful solar flare, which brought the technology of that time tumbling into the dust.

Ancient Egypt was reportedly the first civilization to domesticate onion approximately 5,000 years ago.

But researchers recently learned that ours isn't the first civilization to innovate as the Earth's climate shifts.

Behind man lay the dark shroud of hundreds of centuries from the slimy ooze of the primeval forest to the first civilization.

China, Fukuyama judges, has a strong central state bureaucracy — indeed, it was the first civilization to have one, some 2,000 years before the West — and leaders who, if not democratically accountable, have managed to stay focused on the basic needs of its citizens.

Maybe the first civilization that managed to achieve super intelligence is the ruler of the universe and it's out there destroying anyone else that gets close to its level.

However, after the rise of the first civilizations some 5,000 years ago, powerful conquerors have forced a number of different social groups to enter into a compulsory form of unity.

Then, only seven or eight thousand years ago, there came the first civilizations, each covering a large part of a continent.

The ancient Romans were among the first civilizations to consume beets, surprisingly enough they eat the beet greens for their medicinal value while the roots were discarded.

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A small desert moon frosted by a permanent winter, Jedha is home to one of the first civilizations to explore the nature of the Force.

The way the planets tug at each other, the way the skin of the Earth moves, the way those motions affect climate and the evolution of life and intelligence, they all combined to give us the means to turn the mud of those river deltas into the first civilizations.

The episode, the ninth in the series, looked back on the climatic and physical upheavals undergone by Earth, before highlighting the mild interglacial climate that allowed the human species to kickstart the neolithic revolution and the first civilizations.

Not exact matches

Around 5,000 years ago, humans made the transition «from the anarchy of the hunting, gathering, and horticultural societies in which our species spent most of its evolutionary history to the first agricultural civilizations with cities and governments,» Pinker wrote.

However, if you look at what the core technology of Ethereum is bringing to the table, Ethereum itself and the decentralized applications that are being built on top of it, have the opportunity of completely dismantling all of the exchanges in which we may be listing products on in the first place... crypto out - competes [fiat] in usefulness and in every facet important to a civilization moving away from analog into digital.»

In the first few pages of Pinker's book, he makes the point that civilization has made «spectacular progress» in nearly every possible way.

First released in 1991, the computer game allows players to build a civilization from a single settler into a global empire.

Using historical examples from the dawn of civilization, Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History, first published in 1992, demonstrates how a misinterpretation of the monetary system — especially by government — can lead to mischief.

It is also interesting to note that ancient Sumeria, which is considered to be the first «civilization» began around 6,000 years ago.

Muslims are taking advantage of civilization's relatively short memory and spinning a fantasy that The Crusades were a genocidal war waged against them, when it was only to save Jerusalem from the invading warlords of Mohammad who stole it in the first place.

The first know civilization were the Sumerians around 3000BC, which is in what is now Iraq.

The Foucault by whom we are first moved to question modernity, the Foucault by whom we are first shown the absurdity of the modern project from its beginning, is not the Foucault of the epistemological Order of Things and Archaeology of Knowledge, but the Foucault of the historical Discipline and Punish, Madness and Civilization, and Birth of the Clinic.

The Jesuit Alessandro Valignano (1539 - 1606) was among the first to articulate missionary policies, not only emphasizing the importance of «accommodation and adaptation to Chinese culture,» as historian Daniel H. Bays writes, but also «indirect evangelism by means of science and technology to convince the elite of the high level of European civilization.»

All the great civilizations of the world began with the felling of the first tree... the majority of them disappeared with the felling of the last Combe and Gewald

First they lose faith in the 6 - day creationist god, then in the bible - dictation god, then in the male - supremacy god, then in the european - supremacy / western - civilization / colonialist god, then in the anti-gay god, then in the pro-war god, then in the American - exceptionalism / manifest - destiny god, then in the anti-palestinian god, then in the controller - of - everything - that - happens god, then in the design - engineer god, then in the penal - substitutionary - atonement god, and so on.

Yet how can we defend Western Civilization without first understanding what it is?

It is the theme of some of the best Hebrew poetry in the Psalms; it appears as one of the first generalizations of Greek philosophy in the form of the saying of Heraclitus; amid the later barbarism of Anglo - Saxon thought it reappears in the story of the sparrow flitting through the banqueting hall of the Northumbrian king; and in all stages of civilization its recollection lends its pathos to poetry.

Where in Genesis does it tell who created the parallel civilization of Nod where the first human baby created by God (who killed the second human baby) went?

These, then, are the several levels of unity that bind together the diverse topics of the chapters to follow: first, the curriculum of education; second, the major problems of contemporary civilization; third, the values by which education is seen as a moral enterprise; and fourth, a concept of value as devotion to worth rather than to satisfaction of desire, together with an ideal of democracy as the social expression of basic moral commitment.

The previous volumes» How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews» were extremely popular, and Cahill follows the same basic format here, presenting an introductory description of the world in which the gift «giver appears, a history of the protagonist (in the first volumes a people, not an individual), and finally an assessment of the gift «giver's lasting effects on history.

Whereas the first draft, in full crisis mode, declared that «we must reinvent industrial - technological civilization,» this one commends sophisticated technology that is environmentally friendly.

For the first time since Constantine, the canon of the Church is no longer identical to the dominant canon of Western Civilization.

To avoid this pitfall, one should first read his autobiography, Out of My Life and Thought, and the first volume of his theory of culture, The Decline and Restoration of Civilization; these two works supply the background and perspective necessary to understand all the others.

The books he himself thought most important — namely, the first two volumes of his projected four - volume philosophy of culture: The Decline and Restoration of Civilization (1923) and Civilization and Ethics (1923)-- aroused little sustained interest when they first appeared, and are now gathering dust in libraries.

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

And as a believer in the essential sanity and continuity of Western Civilization, Lewis would surely have concurred with Jaki's characterization of the Middle Ages: «In Western philosophy that was the first and thus far the last major epoch in which broadly shared respect was paid to the fundamental difference between ends and means....

«For the first time in history,» writes Niebuhr, «the barbarisms which threaten civilization have been generated in the heart of a decadent civilization.

After 1936, however, Collingwood defined metaphysics as the historical study of absolute presuppositions, first in the manuscript The Function of Metaphysics in Civilization (1937), afterwards in An Autobiography and An Essay on Metaphysics.

When the community first comes into view, it is a Semitic clan, or group of clans, wandering between the two great civilizations centred upon the Euphrates and the Nile.

His first book, published in 1927, Does Civilization Need Religion?

One can not finish this well «written and pleasantly accessible defense of Hellenic civilization without wondering if the fierce resentment against Attic superiority (and Thornton quotes a great deal of such resentful scholarship in the early chapters) does not conceal a closet nihilism» a hostility to the light of Being first honored and brought to expression by the Greek philosophers.

However, this same attitude may well be the reason why empirical science first evolved in western civilization.

The face of the twenty - first century will be an Asian face - or, more accurately, an East Asian face, since the plausibility of the model runs into difficulties in the parts of Asia untouched by Sinitic civilization.

They came to life in the medieval towns, flourished first in the period of the Renaissance, and finally reached their highest expression in our modern scientific, technical, economic, imperialistic civilization.

Food was taken from the animal world first in the hunt (kill or be killed); then as civilization progressed, mankind got its food from domesticated herds.

Or, as many people wondered after the videos were first published by the New York Times in December, might they be evidence of some alien civilization?

An interesting sociological problem which he was the first to raise is that of the specialized languages of women in some civilizations, of certain professions and classes, the poetic and court idioms, etcetera.

If you allow the spiritual basis of a civilization to perish, you first change, and finally destroy it.

The University of Chicago, founded as a Baptist school in the 1890s, was intended by its first president, William Rainey Harper, to support a civilization that would be based on biblical principles.