Sentences with phrase «learned ancient civilization»

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His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

For centuries, the overgrown landscape has protected most of the remains of the Maya who once tamed it — yielding slowly to modern scientists seeking to learn more about the ancient civilization known for its sophisticated hieroglyphic script, art, architecture and mathematics.

The outsider may be surprised to learn that earth scientists and archaeologists disagree strongly about what caused the destruction of ancient civilizations.

Researchers have taken to the sky in an attempt to learn about what is hidden on the ground in Guatemala from ancient Mayan civilizations.

In this game with several unique levels, kids learn about the ancient civilization and solve word puzzles that involve identifying and correcting spelling errors, finding homonyms, adding prefixes and suffixes, and building sentences.

The civilizations of Egypt, Greece, and Rome provide some of the most interesting opportunities for students to explore and learn about ancient cultures.

Indeed, the team decided to refine the targeted breakout sessions by extending them to a second local museum (with a focus on ancient Egyptian civilization for non-U.S. history teachers) to provide a more experiential learning environment that aligned with teachers» interests.

Her interests include traveling, scuba diving, movies, and learning about ancient advanced civilizations.

Admire its magnificent buildings and learn about the interesting details of the ancient Mayan civilization.

Learn about the ancient Mayan civilization and how in the modern day Mayas view their culture as well as come to this sacred place to do their mayan ceremonies.

Visitors to the popular resort area of Cancun are mostly looking for fun in the sun on Cancun's beautiful beaches, but many will be pleased to know that during their visit they can also learn about the ancient Mayan civilization that developed in the area.

Learn about Mexico's ancient civilizations.

Whether you want to escape the chill of winter, explore ancient civilizations or learn about the magical desert, there is plenty to do for families in Arizona.

If you want to travel back through time and enter the realm of Xibalba, then you have to explore any (or all) of the below 10 caves to learn about the enigmatic and ancient Maya civilization --

Considered one of the most popular tours in Costa Maya, the Chacchoben Mayan Ruins tour takes you deep into the heart of an ancient civilization to learn the mystery behind the Mayan cosmology.

In the company of experts in Mayan civilization explore the ancient ruins learning about the temples and other structures, only recently partly uncovered in the rain forest.

There, we learn from the exhibition's opening wall text, the two amassed a large collection of pre-Columbian artifacts and studied the geometric volumes of the architectural and sculptural ruins of ancient Mesoamerican civilizations.

Independent Projects: Studio Intensive in Oaxaca, Mexico May 17 — 31 Tuition: $ 2,900 Learn about and appreciate ancient civilizations, Spanish colonial art and architecture, vibrant cultural traditions and a lively contemporary arts scene, all while producing your own unique project during concentrated studio time.

As a child I did not know that most of what I learned in school was second hand knowledge or information from the west and thought that whatever little I learned of the traditional Chinese civilization were ancient and primitive.