civilization
Example Sentences
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To say that our picture of the Mayan civilization—an interlocking network of kingdoms occupying the Yucatán Peninsula and swaths of present-day Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador from roughly 1000 B.C. to A.D.
He begins with a chapter on “The Earth in Space and Time,” and 200 pages later delves into Mesopotamian civilization.
“City” is meant to outlast civilization, like the sandworms of “Dune.”
The Inca civilization, based high in the Andes, built the largest Indigenous empire in the Americas before European arrival.
From Science Daily
It is the return of a recurring but never-banished nightmare about one civilization attacking another, driven by blind hatred.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
