8 sentences with 'sophisticated'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sophisticated and other words derived from it.
• « The brain and the nervous system are the sophisticated foundation from which the most elevated and transcendent behaviours - and also the most aberrant ones - of our species are woven. »
• « Cities were essential for sophisticated human groups because they allowed specialisation: you could have some people concentrate all their time and energy on tasks such as art, construction, religious worship or warfare, not just agriculture. »
• « - Astronomy: Just as mathematics is necessary for engineering, astronomy is necessary for a sophisticated calendar. »
• « Most of the world, however, was off-limits to large-scale European expansion. Not only were there prosperous and sophisticated kingdoms in many regions of Africa, but (in an ironic reversal of the impact of European diseases on Americans) African diseases ensured that would-be European explorers and conquerors could not penetrate beyond the shores of most of sub-Saharan Africa in its entirety. »
• « Armed with their unparalleled skulls, Homo sapiens created sophisticated bone and stone implements, including weapons and tools, and also mastered the use of fire. »
• « The Bronze Age saw the rise and evolution of increasingly sophisticated ancient states, some of which became full-fledged empires. »
• « It is evident that there was a sophisticated ethical code and set of social expectations present even in early Zoroastrianism, reflected in a commentary by the Greek historian Herodotus. »
• « Persia was, of course, not simply the most powerful and well-organised threat to the Roman Empire. It was an ancient and sophisticated civilisation of its own, by the Sassanid period already nearly eight centuries old under the Achaemenids, Seleucids and Parthians in turn. »