Sentence examples for powerful civilization from inspiring English sources

It was a magnificent picture that allowed a magnificent and powerful civilization to flower.

11) PRE-COLUMBIAN STAIR MASTERS No one really knows why Teotihuacan fell; between A.D. 150 and 450, it was the center of a sophisticated and powerful civilization that dominated Mesoamerica.

Over a period of about 1,000 years, the Naqada culture developed from a few small farming communities into a powerful civilization whose leaders were in complete control of the people and resources of the Nile valley.

According to Luca Codignola of the University of Genoa, contact with a powerful extraterrestrial civilization is comparable to occasions where one powerful civilization destroyed another, such as the arrival of Christopher Columbus and Hernán Cortés into the Americas and the subsequent destruction of the indigenous civilizations and their ways of life.

Over a span of two millenniums, two other powerful civilizations — the Chinese and Mayans — also identified and met a need for written communication.

Like empires and powerful civilizations, no industry or professional sport is immune from the vagaries of excess and overreach.

The history of the rise and fall of great powers over the last 3,000 years underscores that only when people are able to debate issues freely -- when religious taboos fade -- can intellectual inquiry lead to scientific discovery, economic revolution and powerful new civilizations.

The Nobel was seen, Lovell writes, as something that would "affirm China as a powerful, modern, international civilization".

– he shouldn't be the most powerful man in civilization!

– he shouldn't be the most powerful man in civilization!

But it is like a library for our human civilization, powerful information storage medium.