Sentence examples for complex civilization from inspiring English sources

All this suggested to Fawcett that there had once been a large, complex civilization in the Amazon which had been decimated over the centuries.

Owing to the region's rich volcanic soils and strategic location, Náhuatl-speaking peoples developed a complex civilization there, now marked by monumental ruins.

"We are awash in things," James Gleick writes in "Faster," "in information, in news, in the old rubble and shiny new toys of our complex civilization, and -- strange, perhaps -- stuff means speed.

In his complex civilization man has grown away from accord with the world of the wild things, and he cannot give its essence so truly as his feathered brother of the air.

Viewing it together with the first phase, which opened in 1993 and covers later Egyptian art, visitors will now be able to trace the entire course of this brilliant and complex civilization from its beginnings to its absorption by the Roman Empire in 30 B.C.

In 1933, F.D.R. came into office with an Inaugural Speech calling for fearlessness in the face of horrific adversity; four years later, with greater confidence, he outlined the framework of a liberal state — "the need to find through government the instrument of our united purpose to solve for the individual the ever-rising problems of a complex civilization".

In short, human societies evolved, by means of an increasing division of labour, into complex civilizations.

Through time, exploitation of natural resources increased to cope with the requirements of more and more complex civilizations.

Cells to Civilizations is the first unified account of how life transforms itself--from the production of bacteria to the emergence of complex civilizations.

The cultures of Central America created the most complex civilizations of the so-called New World and are considered comparable to the Classical cultures of the Mediterranean.

Asian Studies at Cornell comprises a university-wide faculty who, together, present a highly inter-disciplinary approach to the complex civilizations of Asia.