Civilization in a sentence

Alpha Centauri is not actually a sequel to Civilization, despite beginning with the same event that ends Civilization and Civilization II: a manned spacecraft from Earth arrives in the Alpha Centauri star system.

Once some smart alien civilization begins harvesting enough energy and putting it to work—the very project of civilization-building—it will have left an indelible imprint on its planet.

This is only about destroying the past, smearing our icons, and turning people against the moral miracle that is Western Civilization—a civilization that has done more to end slavery, intolerance, and poverty than any other, and it’s not even close.

Your old country remains the foundation for your new civilization in Civilization VII.

Two, ‘if you want to know the secret of a civilization, say for example, western civilization,’ the professor argued, ‘and learn why it is the way it is, go to their literature’.

But if you’ve successfully infiltrated a civilization and have added one of its members to your friends list, you can join your target in a game and either take notes on what the civilization has to offer, or cause some other kind of havoc.

But civilization is also spread by the technical, material and social dominance that civilization engenders.

Evans dubbed the civilization once inhabiting this great palace the Minoan civilization.

For the same reason the notion of "Aztec civilization" is best understood as a particular horizon of a general Mesoamerican civilization.

Fred Reinhard Dallmayr, Dialogue Among Civilizations: Some Exemplary Voices (2004), p.22: Western civilization is also sometimes described as "Christian" or "Judaeo- Christian" civilization.

Gameplay A world map screenshot from the Amiga version of Civilization Civilization is a turn-based single- or multiplayer strategy game.

In 1959, Freeman Dyson observed that every developing human civilization constantly increases its energy consumption, and, he conjectured, a civilization might try to harness a large part of the energy produced by a star.

It is the oldest known civilization in the Americas and one of the six sites where civilization originated independently and indigenously in the ancient world, flourishing between the 30th and 18th centuries BC.

Koneczny claimed that civilizations cannot be mixed into hybrids, an inferior civilization when given equal rights within a highly developed civilization will overcome it.

Pre-Columbian main Sophisticated civilization in El Salvador dates to its settlement by the indigenous Lenca people ; theirs was the first and the oldest indigenous civilization to settle in El Salvador.

Prior to the 1950s, the study of history prioritized European civilization and its emergence as the beginning of all global civilization.

Rather than contending with the long delays a radio dialogue would suffer, a probe housing an artificial intelligence would seek out an alien civilization to carry on a close-range communication with the discovered civilization.

Spengler's civilization model postulates that any civilization is a superorganism with a limited and predictable lifespan.

The city was waiting for the arrival of humans, designed by a long dead civilization to take revenge upon humanity; the civilization was destroyed by human biological weapons before recorded history.

The Civilization Fund Act of 1819 promoted this civilization policy by providing funding to societies (mostly religious) who worked on Native American improvement.