Sentences with phrase «first millennium»

When your first Millennium Generation buyers come knocking — and it may be sooner than you think — will you be ready for them?

We're sure that, when Proverbs was transcribed in the early first millennium BC, its creators meant women as well as men by the above.

Once upon a time, just before and just after the beginning of the first millennium CE, there was an apocalypse - is - coming - soon industry.

Hence, at least for the area of the northern North Atlantic, a picture was already emerging of generally warmer conditions around the centuries leading up to the end of the first millennium, but framed largely by comparison with strong evidence of much cooler conditions in later centuries, particularly the 17th century.

Arctic temperatures at the beginning of the first millennium were between 2 ° and 6 °C warmer than they are now, as paleoclimate evidence suggests summer Arctic sea surface temperatures ranged between 3 °C and 7.5 °C about 2,000 years ago, whereas they average about 1.1 °C today.

The experts said there was no reliable way to make estimates for surface - temperature trends in the first millennium A.D.

Rather it's a nod to discussions about to start at United Nations headquarters in New York, as world leaders and their representatives gather to discuss first the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and then global biodiversity, before getting down to the main tranche of the General Assembly.

Heroes are worshipped and opponents demonised in rhetoric redolent of the religious conflicts of Christianity in the first millennium and the Reformation.

«With cumulative fossil fuel emissions of 10,000 gigatonnes of carbon (GtC), Antarctica is projected to become almost ice - free with an average contribution to sea - level rise exceeding 3 meters per century during the first millennium.»

They reported that «no catastrophic hurricane of category 4 or 5 intensity has made landfall in the Western Lake [northern Florida] area during the last 130 year documentary record» but «If future climatic changes, whether or not related to the anticipated greenhouse warming, lead to a return of a «hyperactive» hurricane regime characteristic of the first millennium A.D., then the northeastern Gulf Coast is expected to experience a dramatic increase in the frequency of strikes by catastrophic hurricanes.»

The authors noted, Antarctica is projected to become almost ice - free with an average contribution to sea - level rise exceeding 3 m per century during the first millennium.

Figurative Persian carpets and Silk Road miniatures, each modeled on the other, certainly reached China before the first millennium.

The works include rarely seen Ming and Qing Dynasty porcelains from the Frick Collection, first millennium stone sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection at Columbia University, and contemporary ink of paper by contemporary Beijing artist Liu Dan.

Figures, masks, textiles, regalia, and ritual objects from more than 100 cultures provide a broad - based survey of the arts in Africa from the first millennium BC to the present day.

Set in the forty - first millennium, players choose a race and take them into battle on the brutal frontlines of war and fight for supremacy of the galactic empire.

We have a lot of stuff going on with Saltire moving into other mediums outside of comics and graphic novels but in terms of the series, we're taking the story to the turn of the first millennium and the Viking period.

After an ancient salt mine dating back to at least the first millennium BC was discovered in the hills above the town, UNESCO awarded Hallstatt World Heritage status, which only served to improve the pretty town's popularity.

*** At the turn of the first millennium: Eskil, orphaned in war, but now a man, is leading his followers to found a settlement dedicated to Asgard...

What if?What if the descendants of the Vikings who settled Greenland and went on to reach North America around the end of the first millennium had stayed?Five hundred years later, would Christopher Columbus have arrived to the south of an eastern seaboard dotted with centuries old settlements and towns hosting devotees to Thor and Odin?Might the Norse have gone on to build a nation as dominant as the United States of our own world?

It is a book that was written sometime between the middle of the seventh and the end of the tenth century of the first millennium, one of those iconic books in its original Anglo - Saxon that everyone knows about, talks about with awe, and does not usually admit one has not read: Beowulf.

The Food Timeline http://www.foodtimeline.org/ Did you know that chickens were first domesticated around 3200 B.C. or that the English muffin was created at the end of the first millennium, most likely by the Welsh?

The first millennium was the domain of rugged sailors who waged war against much of England and Europe.

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The colors used represented social class: Chou dynasty (first millennium BC) royals wore gold and silver; later royals wore black or red.

The very first recording of the Earth's magnetic field dates back thousands of years, right to the first millennium.

Like Eastern Europe, the Italian peninsula was invaded by outsiders during the first millennium.

Those from the first millennium B.C. show that the god of weather, Indra, was asked for good monsoon rains and a bountiful harvest.

Even though the Etruscan tongue is now extinct and largely indecipherable, the alphabet employed by its speakers and scribes — a trading people who lived along the Italian coast in the first millennium B.C. — has survived.

Even classical writers in the first millennium BC remarked on the strangeness of the Basque region.

Already in the literature of the first millennium there are references to people with prodigious memory, particularly in the Naturalis historia (Natural History) of Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus, 23 — 79 A.D.), a sort of encyclopedia that in 37 books describes everything from the geography, science, and technology to the agriculture, medicinal herbs, and insects of ancient Rome.

The original pick - me - up may have come from the nomadic Oromo of Ethiopia, who made energy bars from ground coffee beans and animal fat sometime in the first millennium.

By the beginning of the first millennium A.D., the levee system had been extended much farther up river, lining the banks for several hundred miles, he estimated.

The temperature history of the first millennium C.E. is sparsely documented, especially in the Arctic.

«They predate the earliest known Egyptian chickens by at least 300 years and highlight early exotic faunal exchanges in the Horn of Africa during the early first millennium B.C.»

Only occasionally do fighters destroy pre - Islamic material for the cameras: In the first months of 2015, ISIL militants overran the Mosul Museum, smashing many of the collection's artifacts, and took bulldozers and sledgehammers to Iraq's fabled first millennium B.C. cities of Nineveh, Nimrud and Hatra, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

But a second domestication in ancient Egypt, before the first millennium B.C., proved more successful: This later lineage spread rapidly around the world via land and sea trade routes — and eventually took over the internet.

During the Iron Age in southern Africa, around the time of the first millennium, there was a group of Bantu - speaking people who cultivated grain and lived in villages composed of grain bins, huts, and cattle enclosures.

Using new data gathered from sites in southern Africa, University of Rochester researchers have extended their record of Earth's magnetic field back thousands of years to the first millennium.

Perhaps we can speak of full self - consciousness appearing for the first time only by the first millennium so when quite independently in China, India, Persia, Greece and Israel spiritual leaders arose who proposed new ways of ordering the whole of their experience.

But it was not until after the close of the first millennium that we see the unmistakable indications of devotion to the Heart of Christ itself.

It would have been surprising, indeed, if the rabbis of the first millennium after Christ did not face questions for Judaism arising from the surrounding phenomena of Christianity.

Western Christendom at the turn of the first millennium, however, may have been the first society to give historical meaning to «progress» by undertaking great social enterprises terminating only at a horizon of unguessable distance.

Though in the first millennium BC.

It is reserved about metanarratives of massive discontinuity, whether in the first millennium, the late Middle Ages, early modernity, the Enlightenment or the 19th or 20th centuries (a reserve that should extend to the founding trauma suggested above!).

During the first millennium BC.

Its outward form during the first millennium was different from that of the middle ages.

If you want to complicate that issue, include the Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, and other languages that the Bible was translated into, during the First Millennium.

If you really want to be annoying, include the Chinese translations that were preserved by First Millennium Christians in Japan, in that equation of «which languages».

Ever since the so - called axial period (from about the middle centuries of the first millennium BCE.)

By the end of the first millennium, the newly emerged Christendom had extended its power and cultural influence even further than the boundaries of the former Roman Empire.