Sentences with phrase «periods of human history»

The Susskinds» predictions turn in no small part on an important narrative about how people have developed and shared their expertise during different periods of human history.

Crusader Kings 2 explores one of the most important periods of human history with accuracy and passion.

Additional comments made by the author himself indicate virtually no knowledge of the structure of medieval European society, or of the relationship between sacred and secular learning, and include a condemnation which even readers who are not anxious to return to the Middle Ages may regard as rather extreme: «the suppression of scientific thought by the medieval Church represents one of the blackest periods of human history».

Voting «no» is a vote to stagnate democracy during one of the most innovative periods of human history.

What is more, the direction of groups in general, at least in the later periods of human history, has been toward the suppression of the elements of personal relation in favour of the elements of pure collectivity.

These are positive advances in the background of large scale violations of human rights in periods of human history.

The first position appeals to reasonable (not simply conformist and hypocritical) Christians who believe that, after all, every period of human history has its values: that it is better to try to Christianize a given situation than to enter into conflict with it; and that one can not sweep the whole socia1 and cultural edifice into outer darkness.

Perhaps also sheerly by being written it would give some intellectualization to the fact that again, in the present period of human history, those great religions seem in some degree to be in process of ceasing to be quite so separate, even perhaps of ceasing to be quite so surely entities.43

The conditions for experiencing anew the power of a revelatory promise are just as much with us today as during the biblical period of human history.

Anthropological speculation on a brief and turbulent period of human history does not dictate optimal diet, modern peer - reviewed science does... and a template like «paleo» has very little to support it.

So for an astoundingly long period of human history we have lived cheek by jowl or possibly paw by tail with dogs.

We are changing the climate, but remember we are also going through mineral resources very fast, population is still exploding near exponentially, we are altering the entire landscape and biosphere of the planet often in destructive ways, and loading up future generations with huge levels of financial debt, all at the same time, and within a very short time period of human history.

Biodiversity and ecosystems are already more stressed than at any comparable period of human history.

We do have a period of human history, the Twentieth Century, where petroleum and coal were common fuels to compare with all the other centuries when they were not.

MT «the world is no longer producing the reliable weather that it has over the period of human history.»

It's pretty clear that even if global warming has in some sense «gone away» or «on hiatus», the world is no longer producing the reliable weather that it has over the period of human history.

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Only for a brief period in the history of the West — the period of modern times — did anyone seriously suppose that human beings could hold knowledge without God.

After a long period of hunting and gathering, comprising by far the largest portion of our human history (from at least 100,000 to 10,000 BC.)

Any student of the Græco - Roman world at the beginning of our era who tries to penetrate beneath the surface of the political, economic and military history of the period and discern what was going on in the minds of men, becomes aware of a widespread expectation of a turn for the better in human affairs, even the dawn of a golden age, after the violent convulsions which had disturbed society for a century or more.

The Confession of Christ as the meaning of the upthrust of human history and the crown of its scientific and cultural progress is contradicted by the modern division of history into Ancient, Medieval, and Modern periods.

In the first chapter of my book Through the Moral Maze, * I talk about the most significant of those periods of great intellectual change in human history, the so - called «Axial Period» about 2,5 OO years ago, also sometimes called the period of «The Great Awakening.&Period» about 2,5 OO years ago, also sometimes called the period of «The Great Awakening.&period of «The Great Awakening.»

Nevertheless, it is a fascinating history of the life and thought of a great people over a period of twelve hundred years of decisive human events.

By the term «axial» Jaspers intends to designate a major transitional period in human history and in our species» understanding of reality.

In brief, my response to this fundamental affirmation of liberal Protestantism would he that the idea of the ultimate value and reality of the individual is historically limited to the classical period of modern Western culture, and that it can have neither a living meaning nor a truly human form in a post-modern or post-liberal period of history.

We know very little about the first epoch of human history, that four million years or so when humans lived in an oral mode, because during that period they left almost no records of their existence.

Jesus stated that during our time period (that is called his invisible «presence» at Matthew 24:3, the KJV and other Bibles inaccurately reads «coming»), pseudo Christians or false Christians would be busy (along with the rest of the «world») with the mundane affairs of life, getting married, having children, eating and drinking, in which Jesus compared to the «days of Noah», and with the exception of Noah and his family, pseudo Christians would «take no note» that they were living during a critical juncture in human history.

site the washing of the feet and the drying with the hair... that my friends is a marriage ceremony in Judaic law and custom of that period and yes they did have a daughter named Sarah) but... not it seems to be a shock to many who really did not dig into their own religious dogma... blind faith is great if you can achieve it... normally people today need to inspect... inspect and you find the truths... then you will have faith based on the truth, not twists and turns and the human politics of history that changed historical truth.

We are learning about women in history, both individual women whose contributions have been ignored or forgotten, and the masses of women in all cultures and periods of history who have had tremendous influence on the evolution of human society, from the invention of agriculture to the «keeping of the faith.»

I refer to his notion of the great transition of mankind toward a culminating phase of world history during the next few decades — a period fraught with great dangers and immense opportunities for human advance.

Prior to the final judgment and overthrow of all evil, human history would first go through a time of tribulation and then would enter a period of great creativity and goodness.

The Middle Ages were one of the most outstandingly creative periods in the whole of human history.

The judge presiding over the sentencing in an international criminal court near The Hague said Mr. Taylor had been found guilty of «aiding and abetting, as well as planning, some of the most heinous and brutal crimes recorded in human history» and that the lengthy prison term underscored his position at the top of government during that period.

«The swastika is a symbol of a terrible period in human history.

The White House approved a report that found the earth is experiencing the warmest period in the history of civilization and humans are to blame, despite the fact that it directly contradicts much of the Trump administration's position on climate change.

Posted on June 17 on the bioRxiv preprint server, the research supports archaeological evidence about the multiple origins of farming, and represents the first detailed look at the ancestry of the individuals behind one of the most important periods in human history — the Neolithic revolution.

Untangling these waves of imported horses could actually help shine a light on human history over the same time period, she notes.

The new projections are based on leading research into contemporary and historical climate data, but also new scientific reconstructions of the only comparable period in human history: the last Ice Age.

Some researchers have speculated that these and other humanmade objects could become part of the fossil record, defining a human - dominated period of Earth's history called the Anthropocene.

Matt Cosad Climate change is happening rapidly, but it is arrogant of humans to believe that this period in earth's history is apocalyptic https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7276/abs/nature08649.html

«This discovery opens a new and exciting window into the time period, especially because humans may have interacted with them,» says Florida Museum of Natural History mammal expert Richard Hulbert.

[7] Human skeletal research is, therefore, vital for a more comprehensive understanding of this time period in Cambodian history.

The discovery of cave art in Sulawesi from that same period in human history means prehistoric Europe was not the only haven for cave artists.

William Ruddiman has proposed the early anthropocene hypothesis, according to which the anthropocene era, as some people call the most recent period in the Earth's history when the activities of the human race first began to have a significant global impact on the Earth's climate and ecosystems, did not begin in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Industrial Era, but dates back to 8000 years ago, due to intense farming activities of our early agrarian ancestors.

«Today, we live in an unusually cold period in the history of life on earth and there is no reason to believe that a warmer climate would be anything but beneficial for humans and the majority of other species.»

Periods of low food availability have always been a part of human history.

These types of plants, vegetables, and fruits may have been grown during earlier periods in human history, but are not used in modern large - scale agriculture.

Added to this list of potential body toxins, petrochemicals, industrial waste, medical and street drugs, radiation (X-rays, nuclear fallout etc.) and tons of pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides, the result is an incredible chemical avalanche to have befallen the human race in a relatively short period of evolutionary history.

The Wind Rises grounds a human, personal story in a complex period of Japanese history and balances the tone well between nostalgic whimsy and harsh historical reality.

Their primary purpose though is to attempt to enrich what we're seeing with authentic human moments in a film where no period of history, even ones centuries before the invention of gunpowder, is safe from explosions that propel bodies like debris in graceful slow - motion arcs.

Many may wish to give the film a spot in their collections too, whether if it's as one of the 1980s» biggest blockbusters, as one of the Walt Disney Company's earliest and most successful Touchstone films, or more likely, as an amusing human drama which provides a unique and compelling take on a cinematically well - tread period of history.