9 sentences with 'historical'
Example sentences and phrases with the word historical and other words derived from it.
• « Sima Qian (Han dynasty, 206 to 220 B.C.) recounted in a book of historical records Shi Ji the biography of Qin Yueren, a practitioner of the Warring Kingdoms period who was called Bian Que or magic physician. »
• « According to historical records, the pizzaiolo prepared three kinds of pizza, of which the last one had tomato, mozzarella cheese and basil: red, white and green, like the Italian flag. »
• « Civilisation as a historical phenomenon refers to certain fundamental technologies, notably agriculture, combined with a high degree of social specialisation, technological progress (albeit of a very slow kind in the case of the pre-modern world) and cultural sophistication expressed in art, learning and spirituality. »
• « The most important historical legacy of the Ur III dynasty was its complex system of bureaucracy, which was more effective in governing conquered cities than Sargon's rule had been. »
• « Needless to say, historical people had no idea why, when they took tin and copper, heated them and pounded them together on an anvil, they created something much harder and more durable than either of their starting metals. Some innovative blacksmith discovered this, and in the process gave rise to a number of new possibilities. »
• « It should be noted that the approach taken here is that of secular historical scholarship: what is known about the historical origins of Judaism, Christianity and Islam based on empirical research by historians and archaeologists. »
• « The problem with using the Hebrew Bible as a historical source is that it is written in a mythical form - like the literature of all other Iron Age civilisations, many events affecting the Hebrews are explained by direct divine intervention rather than a more prosaic historical approach. »
• « However, there is no historical or archaeological evidence to suggest a single unified religion in Israel or Judah during the period of the united Hebrew monarchy or the post-Solomonic division between Israel and Judah (the Hebrew Bible itself was written centuries later). »
• « In addition to the Spartan case mentioned above, another historical example of homosexual warfare was the Sacred Band of the Theban polis, 150 male couples who led the Theban army and had a reputation for being utterly fearless. »