Sentences with phrase «for early inhabitants»

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For in this case Christians did not take the land by might of arms but by persuasion, and ruled not as foreign conquerors but as inhabitants and natives, harvesting the fruit of earlier centuries during which the bulk of the local population gradually adopted the new religion as its own.

The earliest inhabitants may have used the cave in different ways, such as to gather materials or butcher animals, saving their cooking for open - air sites, he says.

Re # 5 response: [While the movie was indeed prophetic in recognizing anthropogenic global warming as a real potential future threat in the early 70s (responsible for the perpetual heat wave that afflicts Earth's inhabitants), it appears that overpopulation was envisioned as the primary aggravating factor.]

While the movie was indeed prophetic in recognizing anthropogenic global warming as a real potential future threat in the early 70s (responsible for the perpetual heat wave that afflicts Earth's inhabitants), it appears that overpopulation was envisioned as the primary aggravating factor.

One of only three berries native to North America, the lowbush Wild Blueberry was prized by our earliest inhabitants for its taste, nutrition and healing qualities.

For The Help, Tate Taylor retained twice Oscar nominated costume designer, Sharen Davis (Ray, Dreamgirls), to reproduce early 1960s Jackson, encompassing all its inhabitants; from white debutantes and ladies of leisure to the African American maids or «help» who served them.

Some 20,000 years ago, the Island's earliest inhabitants were native peoples who historians believe used Alcatraz for camping and gathering foods.

These early conservation efforts have enabled the reefs to remain a healthy haven for more reef inhabitants than any other dive destination in the Caribbean / Atlantic.

San Salvador's many attractions include the archaeological site where its earliest inhabitants, the Lucayan Indians, lived; five monuments at Landfall Park commemorating Columbus» arrival here, one underwater; the Dixon Hill Lighthouse; Watlings Estate, the ruins of a late 18th - century Loyalist plantation house, and other historical ruins; the New World Museum, with a display of artifacts from the time of the indigenous people and the life of Christopher Columbus; and the Bahamian Field Station, a center for research in archaeology, biology, geology and marine sciences.

Arawak Indian rock drawings decorate the monolithic stones of Ayo, providing evidence of the great importance these rocks held for the Island's early inhabitants.

Called Ah - Cuzamil - Peten (Land of Swallows) by its earliest inhabitants, Cozumel has been a favorite destination for divers since 1961, when Jacques Yves Cousteau's documentary broadcast Cozumel's glorious sea life to the world.

The game, which quickly filled up to 97 players, and has remained there for the past week since Radical Heights arrived in Early Access, will be kicking off «any time now» according to inhabitants.

This benefit has been enormous, especially for the industrially developed world, whose inhabitants were able to lift themselves out of the poverty, cruel weather dependence, low quality of life and short life expectancy of the 18thC and earlier.

Whatever the justification advanced in earlier days for refusing to recognise the rights and interests in land of the indigenous inhabitants of settled colonies, an unjust and discriminatory doctrine of that kind can no longer be accepted.