9 sentences with 'era'
Example sentences and phrases with the word era and other words derived from it.
• « Based on the teachings of Hippocrates, at the beginning of the new era, Galen in his book De sanitate tuenda (On the protection of health) laid down the basic rules of dietetics. These rules were to be followed by the physicians of the Middle Ages and expanded upon by Paracelsus in his book Regiment of Health. »
• « This period of history was called the Hellenistic Age. The people who were part of this era were Europeans, Middle Easterners and North Africans, people who worshipped both the Greek gods and the gods of their own regions, spoke all sorts of different languages and lived as part of a hybrid culture. »
• « In other words, even Africans and Asians, let alone Pacific peoples or Native Americans, could have little relevance to learn from their own history that was not somehow "obsolete" in the modern era. »
• « There were also many areas that practised both; until the modern era, many farmers also foraged in semi-wilderness areas near their farms. »
• « Of all the legacies of Judaism, this may be the most important, although it would take until the modern era for political movements to take up the idea of essential equality and translate it into a concrete social, legal and political system. »
• « The values set out in the Homeric poems spoke to the Greeks of the archaic era of how they determined what was good and desirable in human behaviour in general. »
• « Two of the most memorable polis of the archaic era were Sparta and Athens. The two polis were in many ways a study in contrasts: an obsessively militaristic and introverted society of "equals" that controlled the largest slave society in Greece, and a cosmopolitan naval power at the forefront of political innovation. »
• « From the early Archaic era, Athens witnessed a series of struggles and compromises between the aristocrats - wealthy landowning families who controlled most of the land and most of the political power - and everyone else, particularly the free citizens and farmers of Athens who were not aristocrats. »
• « The great irony, therefore, is that the most glorious era of Athenian democracy and philosophy was financed by the extraction of wealth from its Greek sister cities. »