Sentences with phrase «of ancient empires»

For centuries, the sagas of ancient empires, colonial powers and modern conflicts have unfolded along its banks.

Tucked into the forest cover are the remains of ancient empires awaiting discovery, and eco-lodges that become a base camp for volcano hikes, whitewater trips and cultural explorations.

Trabzon has a number of tourist attractions, some of them dating back to the times of the ancient empires that once existed in the region.

This meant that they lived under the imperial communication order of the ancient empires.

First, the conquers have turned into the conquered, as seen AGAIN by my mention of ancient empires that are now extinct along with their religions and gods.

The sediments, which contain evidence of Inca farming including the remains of seeds and mites that feed on llama dung, come from Marcacocha, a small lake near Cuzco, Peru, at the heart of the ancient empire.

Zhurong: expert swordswoman and ruler of an ancient empire; became merciless after being forced to kill her brother to claim the throne

Not exact matches

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.

There are many biblical predictions («prophecies» in bible terms) that have been fulfilled, predictions that were made hundreds of years before the event, like the fall of some empires / nations (ancient and current), a natural and supernatural sign at a particular place, a catastrophe, etc..

At the beginning of the modern era, two events took place that were at the base of non-Western, Byzantine Europe: the break - up of ancient Byzantium and of its historical continuity with the Roman Empire; and the establishment of a second Europe, with a new capital in Moscow, whose borders extended eastward, and of a type of pre-colonial structure in Siberia.

Though the lands at the heart of today's Europe were completely outside of the visual field of the ancient historian, the formation of the Hellenistic states and the Roman Empire led to the establishment of a «continent» that would be the basis for the later Europe.

The story concerned the Akhdam, the lowest social caste in Yemen, supposedly descended from Ethiopians left behind when the ancient Ethiopian empire was driven out of Arabia in the sixth century, who live in the most unimaginable squalor.

I don't know if America represents a «universal mankind under God,» the ancient yearning of empire, best illustrated in contemporary terms by the call to «take democracy to the Middle East.»

The Jewish people were one ethnic unit living not only within the ancient boundaries of Palestine - Judea but scattered throughout the Roman Empire.

The Christianity that step - by - step won over the ancient world, until the Roman Empire became the Christian Byzantine Empire, was primarily the Matthean rather than the Pauline kind of Christianity.

It is possible that papacy and Islam have the same cause: Like the actually Christian Germany was ruled by the anti-Christian tyrant Adolf Hitler for some years, the actually Christian Eastern Roman Empire Byzantium was ruled by the wicked tyrant Phocas (Phocas is one of the worst tyrants of history beside Hitler; he was an ancient Hitler) for some years.

It is possible that papacy and Islam have the same cause: Like the actually Christian Germany was ruled by the anti-Christian tyrant Adolf Hitler for some years, the actually Christian Eastern Roman Empire Byzantium was ruled by the wicked tyrant Phocas (Phocas is one of the worst tyrants of history beside Hitler; he was an ancient Hitler).

Did you know the Middle East is where mathematical calculations, algebra, geometry, etc. started??? Did you know it was an ancient Iranian who discovered alcohol??? Did you know that the earliest known Bill of Human Rights was written by King Cyrus, ruler of the Persian Empire?

With the Babylonian conquest it is absorbed into the all - embracing empire of the Middle East, which under various dynasties persisted through many centuries of the ancient world.

At its greatest, just before decline set in about the middle of the seventh century, the empire included within its borders the ancient imperial powers, Egypt, and Babylonia, besides much else that made up the total area from the Persian Gulf in a great arc through western Iran and Armenia as far as Cilicia, and all of Syria and Palestine.

Will Jorge Bergoglio continue to advance the General / Universal church of the ancient Roman empire on the sand declaring that it is right (a human right of equality) to be free to worship any god, any religion?

«How can anyone pay any attention to a doctrine that grew out of a Greek conceptual system being imposed on Jewish Scriptures, that was as foreign to Jesus as it is to us, that depends on concepts and a common sense that have gone the way of the Roman Empire, and that is about as understandable as if it were still written in ancient Greek?»

As we discussed a couple of weeks ago, if Esther was anything like a typical teenage girl in this ancient Near Eastern patriarchal culture, she would not have expected to have any say in her marital future to begin with, and so when she is «taken» with the other virgins into the harem, the chances that she would even think to defy her male guardian, or even worse, the Persian Empire, are incredibly slim.

Of the old church an ancient historian said, «The church in the first three centuries won the empire because it outlived, it outthought, and it outdied the pagan world» — including intellectual and artistic achievement.

The answer is, that His coming must be preceded, as ancient apocalypses had foretold, by the outbreak of final anarchy, and this outbreak is delayed by the» restraining power,» which is probably to be understood as the power of the Roman Empire.

Christianity, of course, first erupted in the ancient cities of the Roman Empire, not its rural farmlands.

Is there a permanent pattern in the anatomy of community which may be discerned in such diverse communities as the tribe, the city - state, or the ancient or modern empire?

Given that Solomon is not mentioned in any other known sources from ancient times, a modern historian also has to wonder about what to make of the Bible's description of his extensive empire, fabulous wealth and renowned wisdom.

The nature of the despotic and imperial powers is described throughout the books of the Bible in the stories of the Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Greek and Roman empires and small kingdoms in the ancient Middle East.

His empire stretched across the known world and was connected by an efficient, ancient Near Eastern version of the postal service.

When the religious thought of the ancient world from Mesopotamia to Palestine, and from Palestine to Egypt, required terms to express that ultimate unity of direction in the universe, upon which all order depends, and which gives meaning to importance, they could find no better way to express themselves than by borrowing the characteristics of the touchy, vain, imperious tyrants who ruled the empires of the world.

Julian the Apostate, Roman emperor from 361 to 363, the most gifted and most bitter of all the ancient assailants of Christianity, endeavored, with the whole combined influence of his station, talent, and example, to restore idolatry throughout the Roman Empire, but in vain.

When the Roman Empire collapsed, Christianity, although by that time closely associated with it, not only survived but won to its fold the barbarians who were the immediate cause of the overthrow, spread into regions in Northern and Western Europe which had not before known it, and became the chief vehicle for the transfer of the culture of the ancient world to the Europe of medieval and modern times.

Tiglath - pileser III assumed the throne of Assyria in 745 B.C., «the first of an uninterrupted series of great soldiers on the throne of Assyria, who quickly brought the Neo-Assyrian Empire to the zenith of its power and created an empire in the ancient Orient which for the first time united almost the whole of the ancient Orient under AssyrianEmpire to the zenith of its power and created an empire in the ancient Orient which for the first time united almost the whole of the ancient Orient under Assyrianempire in the ancient Orient which for the first time united almost the whole of the ancient Orient under Assyrian rule.

What I mean under the first heading is that religious appeal is directed partly to excite that instinctive fear of the wrath of a tyrant which was inbred in the unhappy populations of the arbitrary empires of the ancient world, and in particular to excite that fear of an all - powerful arbitrary tyrant behind the unknown forces of nature.

a province of the ancient Roman Empire, including the territory corresponding to modern France, Belgium, the S Netherlands, Switzerland, N Italy, and Germany W of the Rhine.

Therefore, we should turn to the Bible for a paradigm of communication among the people.The Hebrew (HAP «IRU) people and their descendants lived under empires throughout the ages: such empires as ancient Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, Greece and Rome, and their vassals.

So also does world history — the history of the ancient East as well as of the Roman Empire, the history of the Jewish religion as well as of the Christian.

An ancient dish, well known to nomads and herders across a wide swath of the Caucasus and Central Asia, shashlyk became popular in Russia in the mid-19th century after Georgia, Azerbaijan, and part of Armenia were absorbed into the Russian Empire.

Everything I've read are either historical accounts of major events in the ancient world (ie somebody like Livy gives you general outlines of the foundations of Rome, and then during the actual Republic / Empire period they give you major events, but not what the government did, and the issues it dealt with, and how it dealt with them, on a day to day basis.

The plant was used in the empires of ancient China about five thousand years ago, and has also been used as part of many religious practices.

It is my prayer that the Diaspora Policy which is currently being formulated will reflect this truism and it is my wish that soon and very soon Ghana will return to the accounts of its glorious past of that amazing ancient Empire of Ghana as first told by the 11th Century Arab geographer, Al - Bakri.

It thus became a provincial military headquarters of the ancient Oyo Empire.

Globe - hopping from ancient China to the Aztec Empire, from glamorous Parisian cafes to the mills of New England, Paper weaves culture with chemistry, and politics with pulpwood, as it chronicles world history through that wafer - thin product we write on.

She ruled some 2 million people and oversaw one of most powerful empires of the ancient world.

Radiocarbon dating shows that the mummies span 1300 years of ancient Egyptian history, during many of the foreign conquests and then Egypt's incorporation into first the Greek and then the Roman empires.

Morelos was not a metal - producing zone in ancient times, and these artifacts closely resemble the bronze artifacts made in the Tarascan Empire of western Mexico.

Stein furthered relations by giving the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization 300 clay tablets that recorded the daily economic life in Persepolis, a capital of the ancient Persian Empire.

As the waters of the Tigris rise and the world awaits war, archaeologists fear for priceless ancient marvels of the first great empire

Although the country has been far less studied than Mesopotamia, it played a critical role in the rise of empires and economies in the region starting around 1000 B.C.E., researchers said at a meeting here last week of the International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East.