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Alien Civilizations2
  • Should Humanity Try to Contact Alien Civilizations? (livescience.com)
  • There may be more than 30 intelligent alien civilizations living on planets across the Milky Way, a study has found. (newsweek.com)
Changed Western civilization1
World's oldest2
  • From the ancient Egyptians to the lesser-known Jiahu people, the following article briefly explores six of the world's oldest civilizations. (worldatlas.com)
  • The Olmec civilisation is the world's oldest known civilization. (shop-progreso.com)
Origins of Civilization1
20004
  • The year is given at approximately 2000 BCE, when craftsmanship in seal manufacture was probably at its height. (harappa.com)
  • This highly technical and scientific paper brings together all the recent evidence from Dharamjali Cave in the Himalayas over a 230 year period around 2000 BCE, when the ancient Indus civilization was in decline, to show "that repeated intensely dry periods spanned multiple generations. (harappa.com)
  • But in the year 2000, we believed and promised that we would be able to reduce child mortality by two thirds within 15 years - by 2015 - which is Goal No. 4. (who.int)
  • The term herpes is derived from the Greek word "to creep or crawl" and dates back to early Greek civilization, approximately 2000 years ago, in reference to the spreading nature of herpetic skin lesions. (medscape.com)
Maya10
  • Researchers have garnered further evidence for a smoking gun behind the fall of the great Maya civilization: deforestation. (mongabay.com)
  • Historians remain puzzled as to how the advanced Maya Civilization could suddenly collapse in 900 CE. (worldatlas.com)
  • The Maya Civilization was largely made up of the indigenous people of Central America and Mexico. (worldatlas.com)
  • Among these are the well-known civilizations of the Maya, Zapotec, Totonac, and Teotihuacán, to name a few. (shop-progreso.com)
  • To summarize, the Maya were the first, but they learnt a great deal from the Olmecs, who arrived 1,200 years later and established their own civilization. (shop-progreso.com)
  • The Olmec, the Maya, the Teotihuacan, the Toltec, and the Aztec are considered to be the five great civilizations of pre-Columbian Mexico. (shop-progreso.com)
  • With the exception of the politically fractured Maya, these civilizations (as opposed to other indigenous Mexican cultures) expanded their political and cultural influence throughout Mexico and into neighboring countries. (shop-progreso.com)
  • The Maya are one of the most well-known of Mesoamerica's classical civilizations, and their culture is still widely studied today. (shop-progreso.com)
  • The Maya Civilisation was one of the first civilizations on the planet. (shop-progreso.com)
  • If the first Europeans to view the Aztec , Maya , and Inca civilizations had been aware of that, they might have been less impressed with the wealth and accomplishments of these civilizations and have wondered why, since the inhabitants had started from the same point as the residents of the Old World, they had not progressed further. (iue.it)
Aztecs3
  • Isolated from the rest of the world, the Mayans and Aztecs created sophisticated civilizations that in many ways paralleled ancient Mediterranean empires. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • The civilization of the Aztecs. (shop-progreso.com)
  • As a result of smallpox infection, whole civilizations, including the Incas and the Aztecs, were destroyed in a single generation, and efforts to ward off the disease indelibly affected the practice of religion and medicine. (medscape.com)
Collapse5
  • Similar ring patterns are found around 1159 B.C. and 1628 B.C. These dates may coincide with the collapse of Bronze Age civilizations across Eurasia. (freerepublic.com)
  • There is another possibility: that hitting those limits causes our surprisingly fragile civilisation to collapse, triggering a global die-off. (newscientist.com)
  • however, historians remain puzzled as to how such an advanced civilization could suddenly collapse. (worldatlas.com)
  • What if civilisation *doesn't* collapse? (shkspr.mobi)
  • 16 thoughts on " What if civilisation *doesn't* collapse? (shkspr.mobi)
Greeks3
  • The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization History - 180 min - ★ 7.81 The lavish and lengthy production of PBS's The. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • When it comes to ancient civilizations, most people think of the Greeks and Romans. (worldatlas.com)
  • However, there are dozens of civilizations that have been around long before the Greeks and Romans made their stamp on human history. (worldatlas.com)
4,000 years1
  • A reimagining of life in Lothal 4,000 years ago, satellite images of the town in context of today's landscape, and the discoverer, S. R. Rao's drawings of the town plan, bead factory and warehouse. (harappa.com)
Central America2
  • Meso means "middle," and these Mesoamerican civilizations are the earliest advanced civilizations in Mexico and Central America, dating back thousands of years. (shop-progreso.com)
  • Only a few years ago, satellite photos showed curious gridiron patterns in the jungles of Central America. (iue.it)
Earliest3
  • Contrast the earliest civilizations, which rose in fertile river valleys, with the geographical conditions that influenced the rise of ancient Greek civilization. (quizlet.com)
  • The earliest human remains of Australia's indigenous people can be traced back approximately 50,000 years. (worldatlas.com)
  • Which pre-Columbian civilization was the earliest to exist? (shop-progreso.com)
10,000 years3
  • They must have been near misses, because if we had been hit by a full-blown comet in the past 10,000 years or so, we wouldn't be here today. (freerepublic.com)
  • The difference between us and us 10,000 years ago is … we know it can. (acm.org)
  • Discovered in 1940, and originally believed to be between 1,500 and 2,000 years old, the individual was subsequently radiocarbon dated in the 1990s and determined to be over 10,000 years old, Live Science previously reported . (livescience.com)
7,000 years ago2
  • The discovery of a large quantity of black ceramic artefacts at Hemudu signifies that China began to raise pigs and produce porcelains at least 7,000 years ago. (viewofchina.com)
  • The Chinchorro practice of mummification began around 7,000 years ago, some two millennia before the first known Egyptian mummies, according to the same CNN report. (livescience.com)
Humankind2
  • Humankind started to use tools some 50 000 years ago. (who.int)
  • The history of smallpox is remarkable not only because of the spectacular devastation it wreaked upon civilization since the dawn of humankind, but also for the astounding achievement of modern medicine, which eradicated this plague through the concerted efforts of global vaccination (see the image below). (medscape.com)
Inca3
Islamic4
  • Neither do we refer to those huge geo-historical socio-cultural constructs known as Western, Judeo-Christian, Chinese or Islamic civilizations. (libcom.org)
  • Haq's Musings: Rise and Fall of Islamic Civilization: Why Do Stars Have Arabic Names? (riazhaq.com)
  • The lesson Dr. Tyson draws from the rise and fall of of Muslims is as follows: Islamic civilization remained dominant in sciences and mathematics as long as Muslims practiced Ijtihad to ask questions and find answers to questions. (riazhaq.com)
  • Scientific method didn't exist before the Islamic Civilization. (riazhaq.com)
20231
  • Thanks for voting and helping Brytenland on it's quest to become the 2023 Mod of the Year . (moddb.com)
Indus20
  • 342 posts, also carried on our Facebook page , about the ancient Indus Valley civilization, including important news, research and occasional visits to museums with ancient Indus artifacts. (harappa.com)
  • 327 peer-reviewed articles from leading journals about the latest discoveries about the ancient Indus civilization, its antecedents and contemporaries in the Persian Gulf and Mesopotamia, during the Bronze Age 3500-1700 BCE by the world's ancient Indus archaeologists and scholars. (harappa.com)
  • The record highlights the deficits in winter and summer rainfall during the urban phase of the Indus Civilization, which prompted adaptation through flexible, self- reliant, and drought-resistant agricultural strategies. (harappa.com)
  • The author, who has been working in the larger region for decades exploring the long history of human habitation and industry going back tens of thousands of years, turns his attention to the geographic changes in the Indus delta region through the Bronze Age and what recent work shows us were the curious "islands" that once existed in lower Sindh (Dholavira, in Gujarat, is another example of such a later settlement). (harappa.com)
  • The Indus River Valley Civilization, 3300-1300 BCE, also known as the Harappan Civilization, extended from modern-day northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India. (khanacademy.org)
  • Though they did not know it then, and though the first major excavations did not take place until the 1920s, these railway workers had happened upon the remnants of the Indus Valley Civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization , after Harappa, the first of its sites to be excavated, in what was then the Punjab province of British India and is now in Pakistan. (khanacademy.org)
  • The discovery of ancient Harappan cities unsettled that conception and moved the timeline back another 1500 years,situating the Indus Valley Civilization in an entirely different environmental context. (khanacademy.org)
  • The Indus Valley Civilization is often separated into three phases: the Early Harappan Phase from 3300 to 2600 BCE, the Mature Harappan Phase from 2600 to 1900 BCE, and the Late Harappan Phase from 1900 to 1300 BCE. (khanacademy.org)
  • This map shows the extent of the Indus Valley Civilization during the Mature Harappan Phase. (khanacademy.org)
  • Indus Valley Civilization in the Mature Harappan Phase (2600-1900 BCE). (khanacademy.org)
  • At its peak, the Indus Valley Civilization may have had a population of over five million people. (khanacademy.org)
  • The Indus Valley Civilization began to decline around 1800 BCE. (khanacademy.org)
  • The traditions that are honored by millions of Hindus in the present were born in the Indus valley 5,000 years ago. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • Extending from modern day Afghanistan and Pakistan to northwest India, the Indus Valley Civilization covered 1.25 million kilometers, making it the most widespread civilization of the ancient world. (worldatlas.com)
  • By 2500 BCE, the Indus Valley Civilization was thriving, its people living in dozens of highly developed and spacious urban centers. (worldatlas.com)
  • The ancient Indus Valley Civilization in the Indian subcontinent (located in present-day eastern-Pakistan and north-India) was prominent in infrastructure, hydraulic engineering, and had many water supply and sanitation devices that are the first known examples of their kind. (wikipedia.org)
  • The urban areas of the Indus Valley civilization included public and private baths. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Indus valley's drainage system was found 4,500 years ago. (wikipedia.org)
  • The so-called "Great Granary" is the largest building at Mohenjo-daro and shows the use of granaries in the Indus Valley Civilisation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Harappa Harappan architecture History of water supply and sanitation Sanitation in ancient Rome List of Indus Valley Civilisation sites List of inventions and discoveries of the Indus Valley Civilisation Rodda, J. C., and Ubertini, Lucio (2004). (wikipedia.org)
Empires1
  • This mod will (eventually) allow you to play as a leader of the greatest civilizations and empires in Middle-earth, holding the fate of Arda in your hands. (moddb.com)
Ancient11
  • A great documentary about Ancient Egypt that confirms that it was the birthplace of modern civilization, more than 5000 years ago. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • The development of the ancient Greek civilization was influenced by different geographic predispositions than that of the civilizations who've developed alongside fertile river valleys. (quizlet.com)
  • How did geography shape civilizations in ancient India and China? (quizlet.com)
  • The Ancient Egyptian Civilization was established when King Menes-the first pharaoh-unified Upper and Lower Egypt in 3150 BCE. (worldatlas.com)
  • The Ancient Egyptians can be defined as a civilization of "firsts. (worldatlas.com)
  • This theory would add a new connection to a civilization so ancient and unknown that it would completely rewrite history. (aliensecret.space)
  • The civilisation of the Olmecs The Olmec were an ancient Pre-Columbian people who lived in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, roughly in what is now the modern-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. (shop-progreso.com)
  • What were the ancient civilizations in Mexico? (shop-progreso.com)
  • In ancient Peru, South America, a civilisation lived between c. (shop-progreso.com)
  • Despite the term Genetics started being employed a few centuries ago, its practice is ancient and responsible for thriving of the human society to the point we see now. (bvsalud.org)
  • Other masterpieces of ancient civilization are to be found in the neighbourhood: at Motya (Phoenician), Segesta (Elymian), and Selinunte (Greek). (lu.se)
India2
  • Civilization is highlighted in brown in the area of modern-day Pakistan and northern India. (khanacademy.org)
  • The Kushan Empire was a nomadic civilization on the northern steppes of Asia, influenced by Greece, Iran and India due to its strategic location at the crossroads of cultures. (ecns.cn)
Milky Way2
  • Their calculation, which appeared Monday in the Astrophysical Journal, blends current astronomical observations with one big assumption-that life on Earth is in no way special-to conclude that dozens of radio-capable civilizations may currently exist in the Milky Way, with 36 being the most probable number. (popsci.com)
  • Their calculations showed there should be 36 planets in the Milky Way with intelligent civilizations. (newsweek.com)
Arabian Peninsula1
  • That raises the possibility that humans were established on the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula beginning as far back as 100,000 years ago or more, Rose says. (scienceblog.com)
Mayans1
  • Among the pre-Columbian civilizations, the Mayans were the only ones who possessed a completely formed language. (shop-progreso.com)
Survive3
Thousand years ago1
  • According to legend, Erice, son of Venus and Neptune, founded a small town on top of a mountain (750 meters above sea level) more than three thousand years ago. (lu.se)
Settlements4
  • Mohenjo-daro, located in Sindh, Pakistan, is one of the best excavated and studied settlements from this civilization. (wikipedia.org)
  • Researcher Graham Hancock published Magicians of the Gods , where he presents evidence of how a massive celestial object completely wiped out a human civilization much older than known settlements. (aliensecret.space)
  • Rose's hypothesis introduces a "new and substantial cast of characters" to the human history of the Near East, and suggests that humans may have established permanent settlements in the region thousands of years before current migration models suppose. (scienceblog.com)
  • In recent years, archaeologists have turned up evidence of a wave of human settlements along the shores of the Gulf dating to about 7,500 years ago. (scienceblog.com)
Scenarios1
  • The historians would tell us, 'Well, gee, we have some examples of first-contact scenarios between advanced technological civilizations and not-so-advanced technological civilizations. (livescience.com)
Technological2
  • We are living at a time when western civilization is at its peak and the Muslim nations are at their weakest point, dazzled by the power of the west with its wealth, means and scientific and technological advantages. (islamicbookstore.com)
  • Technological civilization is awesome. (radgeek.com)
Cultures2
  • He embarks on an epic journey, to stunning locations across Europe, Egypt, China and the United States, to explore the changing ways in which cultures of the past have shaped our civilization. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • Civilization as we know it began with the glorious cultures of Ur, Nineveh, and Babylon. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
70001
  • It is interesting to know date back to 7000 years ago neolithic period, people have invented a tool to sharpen and polish hardest stone jade. (viewofchina.com)
7.681
Aztec1
Peru1
  • The mummies belong to what Uhle called the Chinchorro culture (9,000 to 3,100 years ago), who lived in what is now southern Peru and northern Chile. (livescience.com)
50,0001
  • That is far earlier than the estimates generated by several recent migration models, which place the first successful migration into Arabia between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago. (scienceblog.com)
Modern10
  • Lev: So basically, you're just saying that you don't see any worth at all in pursuing a type of critique of modern civilization from the perspective of going way back to the beginnings of civilization. (chomsky.info)
  • On the other hand, we do not use the word in the derogatory sense it has with writers like Charles Fourier, who called "civilization" a modern society plagued by poverty, trade, competition and the factory system. (libcom.org)
  • The final episode of Matthew Collings' epic sweep through the history of art and civilization tells the story of modern art and culture, from its beginnings in artists like Picasso, Klee and Mondrian, right up to the present day. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • Many breakthroughs on which the modern world is based were discovered in China long ago. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • Neverwinter Nights is the classic 2002 PC role-playing game that got an 'Enhanced Edition' from Beamdog a few years ago that updated the game for modern computers and has slowly enhanced nearly every subsystem from the interface to graphics to combat and camera controls. (geardiary.com)
  • Did Karl Marx write that slavery had good sides and abolishing it would indirectly destroy modern civilization? (stackexchange.com)
  • Only wipe North America off the map and you will get anarchy, the complete decay of trade and modern civilisation. (stackexchange.com)
  • What Pre-Columbian Civilization Was Established In Modern-Day Mexico? (shop-progreso.com)
  • What pre-Columbian civilization was centered in modern-day Mexico? (shop-progreso.com)
  • Even though it was published more than a century ago, The Scarlet Plague feels contemporary because it allows modern readers to reflect on the worldwide fear of pandemics, a fear that remains very much alive. (cdc.gov)
Great6
  • Scholars are still piecing together information about this mysterious civilization, but they have learned a great deal about it since its rediscovery. (khanacademy.org)
  • We do not celebrate "great civilizations" which would have been witness to the progress of mankind. (libcom.org)
  • The Civilization series of strategy epics is one of the great wonders of gaming. (polygon.com)
  • The Muslims, at one time, were the most technologically advanced civilization on earth, and the uniqueness of their civilization lies in the fact that although they achieved a great deal in materialistic terms, they remained a compassionate society where the poor and disadvantaged were cared for. (islamicbookstore.com)
  • Indeed, if the average lifetime of civilizations is in fact less than 1,030 years, then their average separation becomes too great to allow any communication between neighbours before the species becomes extinct," they said. (newsweek.com)
  • Human reactions to the plague are also the central themes of historical titles such as A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe, a long, detailed narrative of events, anecdotes, and statistics regarding the Great Plague of London of 1665. (cdc.gov)
Back4
  • Through history civilizations have rose and fell, carved out of nature, dependent on nature, in the end - nature took them back. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • Neverwinter Nights is out for iOS devices, and Civilization VI is available for Android after releasing for iOS back in late 2017. (geardiary.com)
  • Let's go back in time over 100 years ago - to the late 19th century. (theglobalist.com)
  • I think that [civilization] coming back would actually be a very big surprise,' he says. (acm.org)
World13
  • Civilization arose in Asia, but it was the West which would create the first world culture. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • This final episode traces the origins of western culture through Greece and Rome prevailing by borrowing from the legacies of the original five old world civilizations. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • Develop a civilization from an early settlement, grow your empire, conquer the world, and improve your strategic thinking and decision-making skills. (geardiary.com)
  • The first 'true' FIFA simulation is here, and it's a mod on Steam for Sid Meier's Civilization 5 that allows players to exploit migrant workers in order to host the future FIFA World Cup. (polygon.com)
  • A new Civilization 5 mod has been launched set in Faerun, a fictional continent in the Dungeons & Dragons world of Forgotten Realms. (polygon.com)
  • Sky-watchers around the world are in for a treat Sunday night and Monday when the shadow of Earth casts a reddish glow on the moon, the result of rare combination of an eclipse with the closest full moon of the year. (christianpost.com)
  • it was written about 14 years ago , in 2009 , on the World Wide Web. (radgeek.com)
  • Perhaps other civilizations have destroyed themselves, but it is certain that the Western world has destroyed itself. (paulcraigroberts.org)
  • Everywhere one looks in the Western world, governments, intellectual and professional elites, and media have picked apart Western Civilization with relentless demonization beginning in the 1960s. (paulcraigroberts.org)
  • Feminists, minority rights activists, lesbian and homosexual activists, transgender rights activists, together with the neoconservatives who advocate US wars in Israel's interests, have been the dominating forces in the Western world for 60 years. (paulcraigroberts.org)
  • European explorers were not surprised to find evidence of rich civilizations in what they came to call "the New World. (iue.it)
  • Set in a ravaged and wild America, the story takes place in 2073, sixty years after the spread of the Red Death, an uncontrollable epidemic that depopulated and nearly destroyed the world of 2013. (cdc.gov)
  • Variola major was the predominant endemic strain throughout the world, and by the end of the 18th century, it was responsible for approximately 400,000 deaths a year in Europe. (medscape.com)
News2
10001
  • Islam was very strongly research-minded until about Year 1000 AD. (riazhaq.com)
2,0001
  • A smaller and more common one exploded over the Tunguska River in the Siberian wilderness 91 years ago with 2,000 times the power of the bomb that devastated Hiroshima in 1945. (freerepublic.com)
Indigenous1
  • This civilisation set the cultural template that would be followed by all following indigenous civilizations in Mexico for thousands of years. (shop-progreso.com)
Astronomers1
  • And just five years ago, astronomers watched the fragmented comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 plow spectacularly into Jupiter. (freerepublic.com)
Western7
  • Lev: I've seen remarks of yours before in which you were speaking mostly of Western European civilization. (chomsky.info)
  • Host Michael Wood traces the rise of both Asian and Western civilization in one global perspective in these thought-provoking videos. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • What makes Western civilization what it is? (christianpost.com)
  • Insouciance has a cost, and the cost is now coming home to Western civilization. (paulcraigroberts.org)
  • They have painted a picture for all generations that came after mine of Western civilization as a racist oppressor of all other peoples - people of color, people who are not heterosexual, people unsure of their gender, and women. (paulcraigroberts.org)
  • To put it simply, year by year Western civilization is being erased. (paulcraigroberts.org)
  • After the discovery of the "germ theory" of disease, much of the dramatic decrease in mortality from infectious disease in Western civilization was attributable to environmental public health measures such as disinfection of water, food safety regulations, and housing improvements, among others [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 1999 ]. (cdc.gov)
Gods2
Human8
  • Capitalism is driven on by a social and productive dynamism, and by an un-heard-of regenerative ability, but it has this weakness: by its very strength, by the human energy and the technical power it sets into motion, it wears out what it exploits, and its productive intensity is only paralleled by its destructive potential, as proved by the first civilization crisis it went through in the 20th century. (libcom.org)
  • These indicate that a human civilization lived much earlier than science claims. (aliensecret.space)
  • Our restless planet exists in a solar system that has had a very dynamic history over the past 20 millennia or more and it is only from this wider solar system perspective that the true history of human civilisation can ever be fully understood. (morien-institute.org)
  • Goals - for human progress towards the year 2015. (who.int)
  • We have seen more advances in human health during the past 100 years than in all previous human history. (who.int)
  • Development of civilizations and the technology of Development improvement of crop and animals have been under human control for more than 10.000 years. (bvsalud.org)
  • A few became spectacularly successful and not only created huge wealth for the entrepreneurs but also changed the course of human civilization. (medscape.com)
  • Relationships between individuals are the fabric of human civilization. (lu.se)
Persian Gulf3
  • Lost civilization under Persian Gulf? (scienceblog.com)
  • Jeffrey Rose, an archaeologist and researcher with the University of Birmingham in the U.K., says that the area in and around this "Persian Gulf Oasis" may have been host to humans for over 100,000 years before it was swallowed up by the Indian Ocean around 8,000 years ago. (scienceblog.com)
  • Perhaps it is no coincidence that the founding of such remarkably well developed communities along the shoreline corresponds with the flooding of the Persian Gulf basin around 8,000 years ago," Rose said. (scienceblog.com)
5,0002
  • We humans have been on the Earth for more than a million years, but civilization - life in cities - has come about only in the last 5,000. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • After thousands of years as a hunter/gatherer, man built the first cities 5,000 years ago on the banks of the Euphrates River. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
Galaxy6
  • Civilization VI always concerns me due to performance concerns (the Switch version definitely pushed the platform capabilities), but on my Samsung Galaxy Tab S6, it played every bit as well as on my iPad. (geardiary.com)
  • Particularly on my Galaxy Tab S6, I found that Civilization VI chewed through the battery in just a few hours of play. (geardiary.com)
  • They say these 36 hypothetical civilizations are spread evenly across the galaxy, the closest would be around 17,000 light years away. (newsweek.com)
  • While communicating with intelligent civilizations across the galaxy may not be feasible, the researchers say we could learn from their existence. (newsweek.com)
  • Conselice said that if we are to find intelligent life is common in the galaxy, then it would help to show that mankind could sustain itself for far longer than a few hundred years. (newsweek.com)
  • Alternatively if we find that there are no active civilizations in our Galaxy it is a bad sign for our own long-term existence. (newsweek.com)
Lifetime1
  • This, they say, is the lower limit that is based on the average lifetime of a civilization being around 100 years. (newsweek.com)
Millennia1
  • Virologists have speculated that it evolved from an African rodent poxvirus 10 millennia ago. (medscape.com)
Early3
Comments1
  • Rad Geek shared an incredible video on the vastness of space, and some comments on the civilization that lets us view it. (radgeek.com)
Depends1
Comet1
  • For Hancock, this sudden reemergence of cold was due to a comet impacting the polar caps , unleashing colossal tides and blanketing the atmosphere in dust for more than 1,000 years. (aliensecret.space)
Content2
  • Caveman2Cosmos is a CivFanatics community mod that add new features and content to the Civilization 4 experience, with almost daily updates since November. (moddb.com)
  • Eagle-eyed community members spotted some of these discounts over a week ago, but Microsoft has only now confirmed the full list of content to receive permanent discounts this month. (trueachievements.com)
Approximately2
  • It was approximately 2300 BCE when the Olmec civilisation began to flourish, thanks to the wealth of pottery produced. (shop-progreso.com)
  • Findings showed that even in the "most optimistic case" the closest intelligent civilization would be approximately 1,030 light years away. (newsweek.com)