Staring an advanced civilization straight in the face, the Roman dismissed it as either barbarism or decadence.
You finally reach something of an actual civilization in the city of Sarn.
Besides, it doesn't make sense to tease an alien civilization with just a "hello, " considering that it could take millennia before we hear back from them.
Despite centuries of fusion with Aryan (Hindu) culture and religion, it has retained an independent civilization whose languages, particularly Tamil, differ sharply from those of the north.
He created a new architectural language for the government buildings in Dhaka, Bangladesh, grafting a new democracy to the roots of an ancient civilization through archetypal brick forms.
An emporium civilization had taken over from the territorial one.
If we ever make contact with an alien civilization and we want to explain to them who we are, the best thing we can do is get them a Facebook account.
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If someone described to you an ancient civilization in which, every four years, at great expense, citizens convened to watch a carefully selected group perform a series of meticulously preset routines, and in which the watching was thought of not as a duty but as a hugely anticipated and unambiguously pleasurable experience, you would guess that, socially, this ritual was doing a lot of work.
And what times we are living in, with the Large Hadron Collider on the one hand, and on the other, Nick Bostrom's very logical argument that we're actually living in a simulation operated by an advanced future civilization.
Along with their sophisticated seafaring skills, the Phoenicians were renowned as an intellectual and industrious civilization who helped develop the alphabet we still use today.
The printing press or the art of movable type that would trigger an explosion of Christian civilization, with the Gutenberg revolution in Germany, had been invented centuries earlier by the Chinese, but with no similar effect.
So long as the world was predominantly an agrarian economy, Muslim civilization maintained vitality.
Not since ancient Rome had a civilization have such an impact on the way the world works.
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Players can manage resources, build armies and engage in diplomacy in an effort to grow their civilization into a world leader.
Every vigorous civilization must have an animating spirit, collectively shared, that transcends the personal while reaching into the future for something universal.
The archaeological site of Thatta and the necropolis of Makli testify in an outstanding manner to the civilization of Sindh from the 14th to the 18th centuries.
Thankfully, there has been an another great advance in civilization.
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The Maya are well-known for their complex calendar system, which some say predicts the end of the world in December 2012 (an interpretation that experts on the civilization call absurd).
Still, we were able to camp in and explore some incredibly beautiful locations in this isolated and rugged wilderness, an area that feels truly removed from civilization.
Clarke kicks off Forbes.com's special report on Communicating with an essay about the biggest challenge our civilization faces: communicating with the rest of our species here and today.
We have an extraordinary amount of respect for the rich and diverse civilization that has thrived here for thousands of years.
But I draw the line when an artist mounts a direct and nihilistic attack on Western Civilization that seeks to subvert the values that allow us all to survive and thrive.
Today, when he's not in Los Angeles, Mr. Nitze, 41, lives three hours away on an entirely different type of frontier: on the outer edge of civilization north from Palm Springs, off a 1-mile-long dirt road in the remote, rocky high desert of Southern California.
This city of the Indus civilization was excavated in the 1920s and 1930s, spreading over an area of almost 600 acre and 10% of which has been excavated and was one of the most ancient planned cities in the world built entirely of fired brick in accordance to a carefully designed urban planning scheme.
In the Artorias of the Abyss DLC released on both PC as part of the Prepare to Die edition and on Xbox 360 and PS3, you travel back in time to an era not completely swallowed by the abyss, to the sunset of this civilization just before its deep, dark night.
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The ancient civilization of Mayans lived in Mesoamerica since 2, 600 BC and had an extremely complicated and accurate method of keeping track of time based on three separate calendars.
First, civilization is collapsing around him as most humans have been turned blind after watching an alien meteor shower.
"By its public witness of respect for women ... the Church in the Holy Land can make an important contribution to the advancement of a culture of true humanity and the building of the civilization of love, " the pontiff said.
Civilization allows players to guide the development of a village into a city and then into an empire across several centuries of human history.
Special counsel James Cole, who laid out the case against Gingrich, said he had originally favored filing an accusation that Gingrich had violated tax laws in connection with the financing of his "Renewing American Civilization" college course.
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