The home of an extensive Neolithic culture to about 2500 bce, Thessaly later remained on the fringe of the Bronze Age civilization of Greece, although Mycenaean settlements have been discovered, as at Iolcos near Vólos.
How extensive was the Maya civilization?
To wander the once magnificent Roman cities strung along the Lycian coast of Turkey — now largely reduced to rubble, much still unexcavated — is to realize how extensive, how magisterial this civilization was.
It was not until the late 1990s that Peruvian archaeologists, led by Dr. Ruth Shady Solís, provided the first extensive documentation of the civilization with work at Caral.
These early settlers were impressed by the extensive ruins of the Hohokam civilization that previously occupied the Gila River valley, and are said to have "envisioned their new agricultural civilization rising as the mythical phoenix bird from the ashes of Hohokam society".
Greek mythology has had an extensive influence on the culture, arts, and literature of Western civilization and remains part of Western heritage and language.
A human disaster -- drought -- as a result of their extensive deforestation was what brought [their civilization] down.
Wall Street tycoons made a civilization-jeopardizing mess requiring extensive government bailouts and were never brought to justice.
Although scholar-soldiers, Balfour and Huchthausen wore military uniforms; al-Asaad was a civilian more than twice their age, armed with little more than his extensive knowledge of Palmyra's once great civilization.
The variety, says co-presenter Holly Pittman of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, shows extensive contact with a host of other civilizations.
