Sentence examples for fall of civilisations from inspiring English sources
Archaeologists and historians in the period charted the rise and fall of civilisations.
Though Swift's deluge seems to presage the fall of civilisations, Gay thinks it worth fussing over suitable headwear.
History is so many things: the material culture of the past; understanding lost communities; charting the rise and fall of civilisations.
His own hero was Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), regasded as the greatest of Arab historians, the first to identify the regular rise and fall of civilisations, a theme taken up by many subsequent writers, including some contemporary ones.
There are many ways of recounting the history of the world - via the rise and fall of civilisations, the fortunes of nation states, socio-economic systems and patterns, the development of technology, or the chronology of war and military prowess.
He quotes, for instance, leading collapse anthropologist Prof Joseph Tainter, who critiques the HANDY model for a "flawed" understanding of the rise and fall of civilisations due to unsustainable levels of complexity.
A skirmish in Clacton, at Easter, was hysterically written up by newspapers as the decline and fall of civilisation.
Well, obviously not that part about millions of people dying, but the fantasy of being free and alone after the fall of civilisation.
"Hari Seldon plotted the social and economic trends of the time, sighted along curves and foresaw the continuing and accelerating fall of civilisation". So did Bin Laden use Foundation as a kind of imaginative sounding-board for the creation of al-Qaida?
Last Friday, I posted an exclusive report about a new NASA-backed scientific research project at the US National Socio-Environmental Sesyncsis Centor (Sesync) to model the risks of civilisational collapse, based on analysis of the key factors involved in the rise and fall of past civilisations.
