Right now a great and ancient civilization is going through a time of tumult and transformation.
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Put simply, the Egyptian people want a future that befits the heirs to a great and ancient civilization.
Iraq -- a cradle of ancient civilization -- is the home of such fabled cities such as Ur, Babylon, Kabala and Nineveh.
The Iranian people are the heirs to a great and ancient civilization.
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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.
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.
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.
What you are left with, among other things, is one of the ancient cradles of civilization boasting historical architecture for tourists who want something a little different.
Not since ancient Rome had a civilization have such an impact on the way the world works.
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For example, one well-known entrepreneur and conservative politician suggested that gay marriage would lead to the decline of the French nation, like the civilization of ancient Greece.
It is also one of the key ancient manuscripts that enabled Western civilization to awake from the dark ages and enter the modern world during the Renaissance.
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His new show "Colin Quinn Unconstitutional, " which opens Thursday at The Barrow Street Theatre comes three years after he traced the rise of civilization from the ancient Greeks and Romans to modern India, Africa and Europe in his Broadway show called "Long Story Short, " which pal Jerry Seinfeld directed.
The tide of newness and civilization encroaches upon the ancient and sacred, and old ways fall prey to the inevitability of progress.
Excerpt: The wonder of ancient history was not that one civilization, that of Rome and the classical Mediterranean, failed, but that so many others succeeded, many of them brilliantly.
Millennia before the current war between the West and Islam the war Obama insists does not exist in the first place the ancient Greeks (forebears of Western civilization) warred with the Persians (forebears of the soon-to-be-nuclear Islamic theocracy, Iran).
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Patent laws and, more broadly, laws that encourage innovation are based on some of our most ancient legal regimes and have been around since the dawn of civilization.
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Since time immemorial, the development of peoples and intercultural exchanges along ancient trade routes have played a crucial role in the evolution and transformation of human civilization.
What a long way Western civilization has come when today the leader of the free world and heir to democratic ancient Greece, far from despotically demanding that others offer him obeisance, voluntarily opts to prostrate himself and in essence, all of America before another.
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