Sentence examples for major civilization from inspiring English sources

She lives long after Earth's last major civilization, the Wreckers, went extinct.

Farther afield, in Bolivia, another major civilization had been developing: the Tiwanaku world.

For the long view of the art history of the Americas, there is "Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico," through Jan . 9 the first large-scale West Coast museum show devoted to Mexico's earliest major civilization.

It seems like every major civilization has marched through there and conquered it at one time or another, from the Romans to the Byzantines to the Ottomans, the Nazis, the Communists.

For more than 2,000 years, as armies, ancient and modern, swept across its mountains and plains, Afghanistan also absorbed great cultures and religious from virtually every major civilization, East and West.

He often begins by explaining that fresco painting has been discovered by every major civilization since art began, and utilized for that culture's unique needs.

Scattered and sometimes enlightening comment on political and religious propaganda has occurred in all major civilizations.

There have been similar lines of thought in other major civilizations.

A fourth wing will permit the art of major civilizations from Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece to be displayed on one level.

The Chinese themselves were among the most historically conscious of all the major civilizations and were intensely aware of the strength and continuity of their cultural tradition.

Sands, silts, and clays deposited by floodwaters were extremely productive agriculturally; and major civilizations flourished in the deltaic plains of the Nile and Tigris-Euphrates rivers.