Cannot they see, also, that two entire opposing civilizations are mustered into the conflict?
In order to obtain an insight into conditions which might have determined and affected maritime intercourse with distant America, let us now make a rapid survey of the history of the ancient civilizations of the Old World.
The following data furnish further important proof that certain peculiar ideas, symbols and metaphors were held in common by the civilizations of Peru, Central America and Mexico.
It is obvious that, before this interesting question can be satisfactorily discussed, a minute analysis and investigation should be made of all other ancient civilizations of the world in which the swastika was employed as a sacred symbol.
Boas shows, however, that the ground-plans of the entire social fabric reared by the Kwakiutl Indians closely resembles that on which the stately Maya, Mexican and Peruvian civilizations were reared.
The Fundamental Principles Of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems.
As the native civilizations were based on such a plan that dissension and disorganization inevitably led to utter downfall and ruin, it is easy to see that a gynocracy and the cult of the earth and underworld should gradually become extinct.
This commingling of civilizations and types brought together in Paris by a set of unprecedented conditions was full of interest and instruction to the observer privileged to meet them at close quarters.
The shadow of death hung over the institutions and survivals of the various civilizations and epochs which were being dissolved in the common melting-pot, and even the man in the street was conscious of its chilling influence.
I have drawn no laws and no illustrations from the twin civilizations of hell and Russia.
It is the lever of God to pry continents and dead civilizations up into newness of life.
Even before the war, however, the equilibrium thus established between oldcivilizations and new resources was being threatened.
The great civilizations which have arisen and flourished independently, vitalized by the tradition of primitive revelation, are wanting or have forfeited the characteristics of true civilization.
THE STORY OF STEAM That which was utterly unknown to the most splendid civilizations of the past is in our time the chief power of civilization, daily engaged in making that history of a new era that is yet to be written in words.
To respectable poverty in other civilizations there are strong local associations like those of a cat, not arising to the dignity of love of country.
The brilliant civilizations which were developed from a very remote antiquity in China, in Babylonia, and in Egypt, caused a certain progress to be made in religion.
Civilizations rise, exist, and fall, each taking with it into the limbo of forgotten things some of the discoveries which made it great.
How did the Indian civilizations of the New World learn to harden gold into a useable point for a cutting weapon?
The seat of one of the highest of these civilizations was Ethiopia.
They also have entwined much of the mythology of past civilizations and these repetitions have helped to establish the expressiveness of light and color.
One writes "our present civilization" and of previous civilizations, but indeed no civilizations have yet really come into existence.
From his lifelong studies in linguistics in connection with his research in “the motifs of civilizations and cultures,” he comes well-equipped to take up the difficult and all-absorbing study of American hieroglyphic writing.
They point to the descent of past American civilizations from a past period of continental, or far more probably, of world-wide extent.
One fact is becoming more prominent with every advance of archaeology over the world, a fact of the greatest linguistic interest, namely that ancient civilizations and empires, as a whole, lasted longer than ours of today.
There is one great broad line that divides the nations and civilizations of the earth, past and present, in all their arts of expression.
But if the walls of Roman cities can claim to have inherited, through Greece and the civilizations of the Aegean, the formulae of the ancient East, the fortified camp was essentially the creation of Rome herself.
Moreover, the Sasanian frontiers marched with those of Rome, and the interpenetration of the two civilizations was inevitable.
In the subsequent Greek and Roman civilizations enamel was also applied to articles of personal adornment.
From the ancient civilizations of Babylon and Assyria no fragments of embroidery, nor even of woven stuffs, have come down to us.
Were you persuasive enough to convince two star-spanning civilizations to cease ten years of hostility just with words?
The two civilizations were most similar, ironically enough, in the structure of their military forces.
One other discovery was most precious, not for its own artistic value, which is slight enough, but for the link which it gives with one of the other great sister civilizations of the ancient world.
It has been fully justified, however, by the event, and it may now be accepted as an established fact that the earliest civilization of Greece meets the two great ancient civilizations of Babylon and Egypt on substantially equal terms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civilizations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
