Sentences with phrase «second millennium»

Greenland was green «CfA's Sallie Baliunas -LSB-...] refers to the medieval Viking sagas as examples of unusual warming around 1003 A.D. «The Vikings established colonies in Greenland at the beginning of the second millennium, but they died out several hundred years later when the climate turned colder,» she notes.»

Utamaro, the Japanese master of the woodblock print, is one of Katz's own eclectic reference points — along with Jackson Pollock, Sixties television advertisements and an Egyptian sculptor from the second millennium BC.

This has been so particularly since the turn of the second millennium, and this show will be the first major comprehensive survey of his work in Europe since 1997 and the first in the UK since 1978.

His introduction of mechanical movable type printing to Europe started the Printing Revolution and is regarded as a milestone of the second millennium.

Catch a morning ferry to Santoríni, an archipelago formed from a volcanic cone that erupted in the second millennium B.C., burying the island's Minoan culture and possibly inspiring the legend of Atlantis.

In the second millennium BCE, massive volcanic eruptions on Santoríni collapsed the island into a fractured caldera possibly contributing to the collapse of Minoan civilization on nearby Crete.

What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American's World By the year 2000, the term «working class» had fallen into disuse in the United States, and «proletariat» was so obsolete it was known only to a few bitter old Marxist academics with wire hair sprouting out of their ears.

I knew the characters would keep young readers mesmerized while feeding them full with exceptional portrayals of Egyptian life in the second millennium B.C. Student reviews of those books confirmed my opinion.

the political, social, and cultural consequences of population movements and militarization in Eurasia in the second millennium BCE.

In 1,000 Years Ago, readers will learn details about life at the start of the second millennium — about the massive stone pyramids built by the thriving Mayans at Chichen Itza; the learning that flourished in the mosques of the Middle East; and the booming economy established in Central and Southern Africa by the Bantu people.

James Cross Giblin's «Night of the Plague,» is set in a European monastery during the year 1000, right before the start of the second millennium.

For all its Celtic Tigers and post-Soviet strut, the last years of the second millennium are beginning to look strangely hollow, strangely drab — the fag end of an exhausted century — and those of us who grew up in England during that time have to admit that, for the most part, it was a bit crap.

Even at its peak brightness the newcomer was much fainter than the four other bright supernovae of the second millennium, which outshone every nighttime star.

The two species do not appear on the mainland until much later, in the second millennium AD.

This statue, found this year, together with the sphinx fragment of the Egyptian king Mycerinus (who ruled Egypt in the 25th century B.C.E.) discovered at the site by the research team three years ago, are the only monumental Egyptian statues found so far in second millennium contexts in the entire Levant.

Mummification in ancient Egypt was at its height when Ramses II (above) reigned during the second millennium B.C., but the practice was established 3,000 years earlier.

The population of Hazor in the second millennium BCE is estimated to have been about 20,000, making it the largest and most important city in the entire region.

The burn scars, combined with tree ring data, and historical documents, present a record of wildfire behavior in the second millennium.

For example, one particularly influential hypothesis argues that horse riding and nomadic herding societies developed during the late second millennium BCE, as a response to drought and a worsening climate.

Ceramics and fire residue showed the cave had been visited off and on going back to the second millennium B.C., but in the eighth and ninth centuries, there was a sudden burst of activity.

It was concentrated along the middle to lower reaches of the Nile River, reaching its greatest extension during the second millennium BC, which is referred to as the New Kingdom period.

Then one day in 1981, her son spotted signs of a thick - walled building just below the surface on the northeast end of Brak, and her husband began to dig along what proved to be a fortification from the second millennium B.C..

Millennium Principal Robert Rhodes, backed by local parents and politicians, has been pushing the city to open a second Millennium campus in vacant space at 26 Broadway so the popular, highly selective school can serve more students.

The Ghana School Feeding Programme has been ongoing since 2005, under the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme Pillar III, in response to the first and second Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, and achieving universal primary education.

He said negotiations would soon be concluded for the second Millennium Challenge Compact worth $ 500 million for projects in the energy sector.

According to «The Resurgence of Breastfeeding at the End of the Second Millennium» published in The Journal of Nutrition, breastfeeding rates from 1911 - 1915 were 70 percent of women, and fell to 50 percent in 1926 - 1930.

This religion was subdued by the patriarchal nomadic warriors who conquered the Indian subcontinent and the Mediterranean world in the second millennium BC.

But Israel, clearly debtor to a broad, common background of Near Eastern culture in the second millennium B.C., repeatedly converts and transforms what she borrows.

Among the natives of the Fertile Crescent during the second millennium BC., perhaps there was a «wandering Aramean» known as Abram.

Radical arguments for and against historicity are balanced out with a careful review of the ways that the story does fit with the early second millennium, 2200 to 2000 B.C.E.

Those interested in understanding one of the most dramatic lives of the century (and one of the most important pontificates of the second millennium) have to be prepared to take Karol Jozef Wojtyla as what he says he is: a radically committed Christian believer for whom a central, defining conviction - «Jesus Christ is the answer to the question that is every human life»» is the source of both his thought and his action.

It is true that nothing catastrophic happened to society around the beginning of the second millennium.

In the second millennium B.C., Egypt always had such groups from the nearby deserts attaching themselves to her life and territory for varying reasons, in varying capacities, and for varying lengths of time.

In archaic societies, by which I mean typically the great Bronze Age monarchies of the old world in the second millennium BC., political power has become highly developed and centralized.

In Exodus the related term «Hebrew» appears for a short while with prominence, perhaps and probably to underline the similarities in nature and function between this group and other such groups wandering over neighboring lands in the middle centuries of the second millennium B.C.

Since the middle of the second millennium B.C.E., 2,000 years before the Arab invasion of Palestine, there has been a Jewish presence in the land.

Yet the truth, as I see it, is that, in spite of some fundamental blunders, Leibniz took the greatest single step in the second millennium of philosophy (in East and West) toward a rational analysis of the concept of physical reality.

The older one is now in chapter two and reflects the comparatively simple world view of the semi-nomad of the early second millennium BC.

As the second millennium was the millennium of divisions, he wrote, so must the third millennium be the millennium of unity.

But mapping trails in the Negev and studying marital customs of the second millennium B.C. will not confirm what the Bible really wants to say about Abraham — that God made a covenant with him.

In Mesopotamia, cuneiform lists mention the creature [the camel] and several seals depict it, indicating that the animal may have reached Mesopotamia by the beginning of the second millennium, that is, by Abraham's time.

The Five Books of Moses take place somewhere in the second millennium B.C.E., centuries before our earliest archeological corroborations for the biblical tales appearing in the Book of Joshua and onward.

So the Bible clearly states that Abraham owned camels about the beginning of the second millennium B.C.E. — Gen. 24:10.

The phenomenon of relativity has been one of the epoch - making discoveries of this last century of the second millennium.

It appears that for First Church, Newton, and its theological counterparts, forging that partnership is the major task set before them in the closing years of the second millennium.

The second millennium is ending and with it, at the very least, the hegemony in Christian thought of the distinctive intellectus of Europe and North America.

In the field of knowledge a disastrous dichotomy has therefore emerged during the second millennium — and is now acute.

Catholic Christianity in the second millennium, from 1001 to the present times, has been Europe - centered.

If Abraham and Jacob are Israel in the first millennium B.C., they are also Abraham and Jacob of the second millennium B.C..

If we have no direct extrabiblical confirmation of Abraham and Jacob, we find, nevertheless, a remarkable correlation between what is reflected in the stories about their backgrounds and what we learn of life in the ancient Near East in the first half of the second millennium B.C.