Sentence examples for past civilization from inspiring English sources

For society, any reform means a type of return to the remote past; civilization is considered a degradation of the natural order, and the ideal is the return to an original purity.

Anthropologists are very familiar with encountering those who are radically other; archaeologists are very good at saying, We have only a fragment of a past civilization, and we're trying to reconstruct it.

When I lived in Egypt in the early 1980's, I often heard in the voices of anti-Western Muslims a mix of emotions -- pride in their past civilization, frustration at their present poverty, scapegoating of the West -- that echoed when I moved to Asia and talked to North Koreans or hard-line Chinese Communists.

All existing units are automatically updated, solving one of the major headaches of past Civilization unit evolution, and the changes don't cost anything.

At times there's a vague semblance of past civilization, but clearly overrun for ages.

Past civilizations were measured by how they treated their elderly and disabled.

You might glean insight into the lives of past civilizations or just satisfy a morbid curiosity.

Democracy is, after all, just a theory, adapted and adopted from past civilizations, most notably Greece and Rome.

The soil beneath Lower Manhattan teems with bits of past civilizations, but they are generally the most workaday sorts of fragments.

So here's the question: will we avoid the fate of past civilizations that destroyed their environments, and hence themselves?

In past civilizations the Moon was regarded as a deity, its dominion dramatically manifested in its rhythmic control over the tides and the cycle of female fertility.