Civilizations
[sɪvɪlaɪ'zeɪʃnz]
Examples
- The first civilizations in Egypt and the Euphrates-Tigris valley probably developed directly out of this widespread culture. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Naturally enough under the circumstances the nomadic peoples were always supplying the civilizations with fresh rulers and new aristocracies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Our geographical isolation preserves us from any vivid sense of national contrast: our imaginations are not stirred by different civilizations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And the Semitic nomads were closer to the earlier civilizations, a thing that fitted in with their greater aptitude for trade and counting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have shown the necessary relationship of these early civilizations to the early temples and to king-gods and god-kings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There is a considerable imaginative appeal in the obscure story of the early American civilizations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The old civilizations created tradition, and lived by tradition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In this matter, again, the records of ancient civilizations show the pains that were taken to fix these essentials of science. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The nobility of the old river valley civilizations arose out of the court system. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was cut off from the civilizations to the west and to the east by vast mountain barriers and desert regions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such organizations of restriction upon free intercourse have come and gone in great variety in the history of all long-standing civilizations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At last there happened to Egypt what happened so frequently to the civilizations of Mesopotamia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They are the foundation of that national vigor through which civilizations mature. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A vast proportion of mankind in the early civilizations was employed in purely mechanical drudgery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Medi?val Germany went as far as any of the Western heirs of the first great civilizations towards a fixation of classes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The American civilizations had picture-writing of a primitive sort, but it never developed even to the pitch of the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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