15 sentences with “societies”

Anthropology is the discipline that studies human societies and their culture.

Classical literature offers us a window into the cultures and societies of the past.

The history of art is a history of humanity and offers us a window into how our societies have evolved.

In some societies, eating pork is strictly prohibited; in others, it is considered a rather ordinary food.

From their remains it is possible to gather certain facts about ancient societies on the cusp of civilisation.

Also, Egyptian women enjoyed far more legal autonomy than women in many other ancient societies, particularly that of the Greeks.

Once trade networks recovered, bronze weapons remained the norm in societies that used iron tools in other ways for many centuries.

Thus, in societies like the Phoenicians, there was no need for a class of scribes, since even ordinary tradesmen could become literate.

Hunter-gatherer societies have very few social divisions; there may be chiefs and shamans, but all members of the group have roughly equal social power.

The reason why hunter-gatherer societies produce little in the way of studies or technology is that they do not have the resources for people to specialise in those areas.

Similar rites are found in religions such as Mithraism and Hermeticism and in places such as India, Tibet and Scandinavia, as well as in some African tribes and societies of pre-Columbian times.

Outside Greece, which suffered its long 'dark ages' after the collapse of the Bronze Age, a number of prosperous societies and states emerged relatively quickly at the beginning of the Iron Age.

Interestingly, unlike many other ancient societies, women in Egypt were almost legally equal to men. They had the legal right to own property, sue, and essentially exist as independent legal entities.

The inspectors of the temperance societies punished anyone who violated the strict rules of these congregations by fining them money or horses of the best pedigree (or, worse still, by forbidding them to attend tournaments or to drink a drop of alcohol for the rest of the year).

Herodotus knew enough about other cultures, especially Persia, to recognise that other societies could be as complex, and more militarily powerful, than Greece. Nevertheless, his history of the Persian war continued the ancient Greek practice of referring to the Persians as "barbarians".