10 sentences with “chapter”

The second chapter of the book was very exciting.

The empire described in this chapter is called the Achaemenid Persian Empire, after its first ruling clan.

An example of the impact of bronze is, as noted in the previous chapter, the expansionism of the Egyptian New Kingdom.

As noted in the last chapter, the Mesopotamians regarded the gods as cruel and arbitrary and thought that human existence was not a very pleasant experience.

There were several different forms of hieroglyphs, including two different alphabets during the period covered in this chapter, all of which were very difficult to master.

This chapter will use the term "king" for the kings of Egypt leading into the New Kingdom, and then "pharaoh" for the rulers of the New Kingdom to reflect the correct usage of the term.

What all the cultures considered in this chapter have in common is that they were more dynamic and, in the case of empires, more powerful than the earlier Mesopotamian (and even Egyptian) states.

The Bible's Ecclesiastes, chapter 9, also instructs with foresighted wisdom: "Never sit with a married woman, never sit at table with her, and do not eat wine with her, lest your heart turn away from her and you slide to ruin".

As described in the introductory chapter, "civilisation" is also a "loaded" term, replete with an implicit division between civilisation and its opposite, barbarism, with "civilised" people often eager to describe people from a different culture as "uncivilised" in so many words.

This is important to keep in mind, because when considering ancient history (in this case, in a short chapter of a textbook), it may seem that it all happened rather quickly, that people discovered agriculture and were soon building massive cities and developing advanced technology.