Birds have held an important position in Chinese culture for millennia, appearing as background decor even on the earliest silk paintings. |
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His earlier ancestors had prowled the delta marshes near Bubastis, and lived as hunters and fowlers for millennia. |
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Both men began to seek their separate truths in religious experience, in search of a metaphysic with millennia behind it. |
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Over the millennia, the Indus river cut some 17 major and numerous minor creeks in the region as it disgorged into the Arabian Sea in the south. |
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After millennia of dreaming of flight, the human race went from a standing start at Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years. |
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Local people had been propping up the bar and getting drunk in there for half a millennia. |
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For most of the past two millennia, the carpet heartlands have been in turmoil, raked by battles, invasions and migrations. |
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For millennia farmers have had to stretch water resources to irrigate their crops. |
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Fires, both natural and human-caused, have burned seasonally dry parts of the island with clockwork regularity for millennia. |
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Is it possible that perceptions and prejudices formed over millennia are shaken off in one go? |
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Most of these sacred marriage myths are ancient and archetypal, from millennia before the era of Ephesians. |
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The planet, which was laid waste some millennia previously thanks to the stupidity of mankind, is now littered with ruins. |
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The Romans burned sulfur candles inside barrels before filling them, as did the British and Dutch a millennia later. |
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I felt as if I had stumbled back several millennia into some distant Druidical ritual. |
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How has such a simple fact eluded scientists and mystics alike for so many millennia? |
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It's been carried over the centuries and millennia by mythology, religion, metaphysics and history. |
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Over millennia, the water has bored an intricate network of geologic veins through the bedrock. |
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Variously known an 'intermittent fever' or 'ague,' malaria had been endemic in the marshy, fenny lowlands of Europe and Africa for millennia. |
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Most of the complementary therapies at our disposal have been around for millennia. |
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However, there are records of a similar nature written down by disparate civilizations over the last three millennia. |
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Lastly, the hatred and contempt of the past two millennia add a formidable barrier to authentic communication. |
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More species have been lost in the last several decades than have been lost cumulatively in the last several millennia. |
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For millennia, people have successfully converted desert landscapes into agricultural land through irrigation. |
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Invisible traces of quartz, calcite, gypsum and feldspar, the dust of its resting place for more than two millennia, cling to the bronze. |
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The military history of ancient Egypt spanned three millennia, spanning the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages. |
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The extraordinary adhesive capabilities of geckos have challenged explanation for millennia, since Aristotle first recorded his observations. |
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They were an old race, many millennia having given natural selection time to run its course. |
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Through the millennia, the Zambezi River has carved its way down through faulted rock to create this sheer-sided gorge. |
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Although the area is rife with archaeological finds spanning millennia, neglect has deterred visitors. |
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Soil here is extraordinarily thin, sandy, and well-drained owing to highly vertical relief and millennia of rainwater surface denudation. |
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Whereas scientific research on agroforestry dates back at most two generations, this indigenous system is centuries, if not millennia, old. |
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Battles drew and redrew the political map of the continent over the last two millennia. |
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They invoked the elements and the ancient Welsh gods who their family had worshipped for millennia. |
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By contrast, casting or drawing lots to assure fairness in allocating duties or rewards has been acceptable for millennia. |
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That is the basic point that skeptical philosophers from Sextus to Nagarjuna to Nietzsche have made for millennia. |
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The year is 3526, and intergalactic contact has been established for three millennia. |
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On the other hand, the majority of fossil vertebrate assemblages accumulate over many temporal scales from days to millennia. |
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Over millennia a crystal clear creek had undercut the slope to create the hidden canyon. |
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During the last six millennia, the hero's journey to the underworld of the dead has been a main part of epic storylines. |
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With recorded information the point of consumption can be anywhere from seconds to millennia ahead. |
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For a few millennia after the Big Bang, the universe was dense, turbulent, and unimaginably hot. |
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Over two millennia these Mesopotamian cities developed the art of copper smelting, alloying bronze and, most importantly, writing. |
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For the next five millennia McNeill observes a sharp spatial distinction between barbarians and civilized communities. |
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If a story was untrue when it was made up, then the passage of millennia does not make it any more true! |
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The surface of the soft sandstone was furrowed by the stratification of numerous millennia. |
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During the millennia breadfruit has been cultivated, the trees changed with time and place. |
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In India it has been used for millennia as an insect repellent, spermicide, medicine for skin diseases, sores and rheumatism. |
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Experts agree that the rate at which the Earth travels through space has slowed ever so slightly for millennia. |
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For millennia, the vivid orange-red pigment called vermillion has decorated pottery and preserved royal bones. |
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The book gives a fantastic insight into the city as it follows themes such as house and home, working for a living and entertainment through almost two millennia. |
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The fact is, there are facially neutral religious rules that have been unevenly enforced for millennia. |
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Over the millennia, different settlers have tremendously influenced Cyprus, which is why Cypriot traditions consist of a mixture of influences remaining from settlers. |
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Such an approach has often been taken to be a break with the past, but is rooted in more than two millennia of logical and grammatical system-building. |
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Beginning more than two millennia ago Scythian archers dipped their arrowheads into manure and rotting corpses to increase the deadliness of their weapons. |
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The whole issue is compromised by millennia of animal-human interaction that make it difficult to achieve moral clarity even in the atomic system of one owner and one pet. |
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In the millennia since early Mesopotamians first converted the fierce, ancestral aurochs into the contented cow, a wide variety of specialized breeds have been developed. |
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These moons and rings had existed for millennia, but they were beyond human perception until the invention of a device that could magnify the faint images. |
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We still irresistibly trust that those carved stones can somehow vault us over the millennia to a kind of psychic and even perceptual proximity to their subject. |
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Moroccans have worn the comfy slippers for millennia, but the trio updated babouches for western consumers by the simple trick of adding a small heel. |
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Such short-term, externally-driven industries kill the golden goose, the bounty of the forest that has sustained life in the region for millennia. |
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For almost two decades, the Tarahumara frog has been absent from the southern Arizona canyons and deep plunge pools to which it had adapted over millennia. |
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Although fever is the most commonly encountered disorder of thermoregulation, hypothermia has played a major role in shaping history and medicine for millennia. |
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The penannular style of brooch goes back many centuries, if not millennia. |
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For millennia, shamans and witch doctors, the therapists of indigenous and preindustrial cultures, made no distinction between physical, emotional, and spiritual healing. |
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For millennia people have been adorning themselves with colorful accessories, made of precious metals, beset with jewels, and decorated with wonderful patterns. |
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A short, sharp shock is all very well, but a couple of millennia of rather extreme corporal punishments haven't exactly shown us that prison provides much by way of rehab. |
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I know that any religion can only grasp a portion of the reality of God they have come to know over millennia. |
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Wind the clock forward half a millennia or so and Queen Elizabeth II wears the crown, and Hythe ferry is still shuttling passengers across Southampton Water. |
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Engraved in the Corpus Hippocraticum and the Galenic writings, these hypotheses formed a medical ideology that remained influential for millennia of medical history. |
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People have fought on land and at sea for millennia, but some see space as a pristine domain, unsullied by human conflict, and want to keep it that way. |
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In India, the religious use of a psychedelic called soma was featured in the Rig Veda and entheogens have been a part of south Asian religious practice for millennia. |
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Now there were sharp ravines and barren gray slopes and narrow red spires looming above a clay basin that had, for 600 millennia, been eroded by rivers and wind. |
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Was there a major expansion of Pama-Nyungan speakers, probably around five millennia ago, at the expense of other languages previously spoken in the area? |
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The book describes the changes that have occurred in the landscape over many millennia. |
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Holism was the unquestioned orthodoxy of the Western tradition of practising medicine and investigating nature for the two millennia before the nineteenth century. |
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At first thought this does not seem too difficult a problem, even without a bright star close to the north celestial pole during the millennia of interest. |
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Fishing has been a way of life on the waterways of India's Kerala state for millennia, but in more recent years some of the ancient boats have added small outboard engines. |
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If such images were the precursors of the cuneiform signs, then pictorial representation, dating back many millennia in the ancient Near East, could be seen as the ancestor of writing. |
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Though the island is of volcanic origin, corals have encrusted her flanks and over the millennia these have built reefs, growing farther and farther out to sea. |
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Over the millennia during which man has selected grape vines, he has chosen those capable of photosynthesizing an excess of sugars and storing them in berries. |
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It is an encapsulation of the dreams of our people for two millennia. |
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Its benefits have been so incontestable that in the five millennia since the advent of the written word numerous poets and writers have extolled its virtues. |
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Britain abandoned silver coinage in 1947, after more than two millennia. |
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The twentieth century has witnessed an almost world-wide revolt against forms of authority that have generally been recognised by the human race for millennia. |
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Dinosaur fossils have been known for millennia, although their true nature was not recognized. |
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The creation of some unknown arcanist in millennia past, the bulette has bred true to become one of the fiercest predators of the hills. |
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Standing on the River Thames in the south east of the island of Great Britain, London has been a major settlement for two millennia. |
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For instance, he founded logic as a formal science and created foundations to biology that were not superseded for two millennia. |
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Since the discovery happened several millennia before the invention of writing, there is no written record about how it was made. |
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This was especially the case in Egypt and the Near East, where different traditions of large stone temples were already millennia old. |
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There are many lakes and moraines, legacies of the last glacial period, which ended about ten millennia ago. |
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About two to four millennia later, Great Britain became separated from the mainland. |
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Louisiana was inhabited by Native Americans for many millennia before the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century. |
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Archaeological research has unearthed several ancient cities in Bangladesh, which had international trade links for millennia. |
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Horse racing in one form or another has been a part of Chinese culture for millennia. |
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Many human societies have been governed by states for millennia, but many have been stateless societies. |
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Steelmaking has existed for millennia, but it was not commercialized until the 19th century. |
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For almost five millennia, the geocentric model of the Earth as the center of the universe had been accepted by all but a few astronomers. |
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Leicester is one of the oldest cities in England, with a history going back at least two millennia. |
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Some historians believe that the Mongol invasion destroyed much of the irrigation infrastructure that had sustained Mesopotamia for millennia. |
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Humans have been hunting boar for millennia, with the earliest artistic depictions of such activities dating back to the Upper Paleolithic. |
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Appellate courts and other systems of error correction have existed for many millennia. |
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Steelmaking has existed for millennia, but it was not commercialized on a massive scale until the 19th century. |
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In this area of the world people relied on hunting and gathering for several millennia to come. |
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There is evidence for settlements in and around Llantrisant stretching back over three millennia. |
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Because pottery is so durable, pottery and sherds of pottery survive from millennia at archaeological sites. |
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Thus, these wastes must be shielded for centuries and isolated from the living environment for millennia. |
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Hydrology has been a subject of investigation and engineering for millennia. |
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He also questioned the division into three of what is really a single landmass, a debate that continues nearly two and a half millennia later. |
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Evidence of maritime trade between civilizations dates back at least 90 millennia. |
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A consistent shift from land based trade to sea based trade has been recorded since the last three millennia. |
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However, more recent radiocarbon dating of seashell fragments and lead contamination predate this claim by two millennia. |
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Winter apples, picked in late autumn and stored just above freezing, have been an important food in Asia and Europe for millennia. |
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In Madagascar there are more studies that predates the human arrival in the isle of several millennia. |
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Widespread coastal flooding would be expected if several degrees of warming is sustained for millennia. |
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On the timescale of centuries to millennia, the magnitude of global warming will be determined primarily by anthropogenic CO2 emissions. |
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Slowly, through the following millennia, temperatures and sea levels rose, changing the environment of prehistoric people. |
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Sri Lankan literature spans at least two millennia, and is heir to the Aryan literary tradition as embodied in the hymns of the Rigveda. |
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In more recent millennia, another wave of people arrived on the shores of New Guinea. |
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These Neolithic civilizations, known as the Yellow River and Yangtze civilizations, arose millennia ago. |
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Worldwide, horses play a role within human cultures and have done so for millennia. |
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Following millennia of selective breeding, there are now over a thousand different types of potatoes. |
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For millennia, Latin has served as a lingua franca for administrative, scholarly, religious, political, etc. |
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Nigeria has been home to a number of kingdoms and tribal states over the millennia. |
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Micronesia began to be settled several millennia ago, although there are competing theories about the origin and arrival of the first settlers. |
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Era names were used for over two millennia by Chinese emperors and are still used in North Korea, Japan and Taiwan. |
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Ebla was a prominent trading centre during the third millennia, with a network reaching into Anatolia and north Mesopotamia. |
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Over the next millennia, other river valleys saw monarchical empires rise to power. |
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The eventual regrowth of the forest to its primeval state will take centuries, if not millennia. |
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In the third and late fourth millennia BCE, the whole of Flanders shows relatively little evidence of human habitation. |
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However, there are two viewpoints about how millennia should be thought of in practice. |
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Historically, there has been debate around the turn of previous decades, centuries, and millennia. |
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Many green lanes are ancient routes that have existed for millennia, such as hollow ways, drover's roads, ridgeways and even ancient trackways. |
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Regions that experienced greater environmental effects as the last ice age ended have a much more evident Mesolithic era, lasting millennia. |
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The billions who have professed faith in the God of Abraham over millennia of human history may then be fairly called Yahwists. |
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Two and a half millennia ago, Siddhartha Gautama sought enlightenment. |
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Over the millennia God's chatted up plenty of patriarchs and minor prophets. |
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Look quickly, though, because if you blink you'll miss the single cave painting slide and, along with it, the next 10 millennia of human culture. |
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In the last two millennia our numbers have grown nearly thirtyfold, from a mere 250 million to more than 7 billion today. |
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But at least in warfare, there are certain rules that go back millennia. |
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The human urge to pluck a string and make music goes back many millennia. |
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Pastoralist economies have been the base of Eurasian steppe societies for millennia. |
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It is not the case that animal transgenics does no more than what animal breeders and domesticators have been doing for millennia. |
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Over the millennia, within this four-caste structure, evolved thousands of endogamous castes and subcastes, or jatis. |
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Over millennia clay has accumulated in the subsoils as a result of weathering of primary minerals and clay illuviation. |
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Furthermore, it is assumed that introgressions have occurred in this breed mainly from Indian zebu breeds in the recent millennia. |
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China may call itself a nation-state, but in essence it is a civilization-state dating back at least two millennia. |
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At the center of Chinese civilization for nearly two millennia, Confucianism suffered under Mao, who spent much of his rule destroying traditional culture. |
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Moreover on the cylinder seals of the third and second millennia, the crescent is almost always depicted below the sun disc and quite close to it. |
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He's even taken it back to the Haida Nation, the tribes that live in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands, where cedar plank houses were built perhaps for millennia. |
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They culminate with Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, whose life provides a fitting grand finale to the first three millennia of this ancient civilisation. |
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The bleaching process has been known for millennia, but the chemicals currently used for bleaching resulted from the work of several 18th century scientists. |
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It has been used to make sculptures and carvings for millennia. |
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Over the following millennia, civilizations developed across the world. |
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The gulf has provided a historically important marine fishery for various First Nations that have lived on its shores for millennia and used its waters for transportation. |
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Phi were believed to influence natural phenomena including human illness and thus the baci became an important part of people identity and religious health over the millennia. |
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Local cave paintings, which have been dated to twelve millennia before present, have been found in the Tassili n'Ajjer region of southern Algeria. |
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Due to precession, Crux will move closer to the South Pole in the next millennia, up to 67 degrees south declination for the middle of the constellation. |
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Most, such as those composed of the descendants of Shaka and Moshoeshoe of Southern Africa, belong to peoples that have been resident in the continent for millennia. |
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Proxy records based on paleotempestological research have revealed that major hurricane activity along the Gulf of Mexico coast varies on timescales of centuries to millennia. |
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Various human cultures have depicted pinnipeds for millennia. |
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Although many of the environmental effects of pottery production have existed for millennia, some of these have been amplified with modern technology and scales of production. |
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The ground beneath us still rippled with earthworks from the Celtic hill fort that guarded the Menai Strait more than two and a half millennia ago. |
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Regions that experienced greater environmental effects as the last glacial period ended have a much more apparent Mesolithic era, lasting millennia. |
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Over the millennia many rulers and states imposed rules that would take wealth from their citizens and this led to the development of offshore banking and tax evasion. |
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Magnolias are some of the most primitive of our flowering trees, and fossils dating back millennia prove that they have had little need to evolve. |
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Almost all of Denmark's primeval temperate forests have been destroyed or fragmented, chiefly for agricultural purposes during the last millennia. |
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Of course, there is no certainty today as to the original appearance of the circle, or how much it may have changed in the preceding millennia, prior to Stukeley's visit. |
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The hills have been exploited for their natural resources for millennia. |
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The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events in England throughout much of its two millennia of existence. |
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Farmland and settlement have altered the natural scenery, and the ecology has been modified by human influence for millennia and includes important wildlife habitats. |
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Judaea greeted its monarch. He was to ascend to the immemorial sacring place of millennia of kings, there to be endued with the robe and crown of rule. |
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This belt became the mainstream of world history for two millennia. |
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It was probably worth four millennia of consternation and regret. |
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Black bears, brown bears, caribou, hoary marmots, and brown lemmings died within or were dragged into On Your Knees Cave in the millennia preceding the last glacial maximum. |
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