10 sentences with 'technologies'
Example sentences and phrases with the word technologies and other words derived from it.
• « 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. »
• « Thus, long before ancient humans had developed the essential technologies normally connoted with civilisation, they had already made transcontinental and transoceanic voyages and had adapted to almost every climate on the planet. »
• « Likewise, the absence of advanced technologies was no impediment to the attempt to understand the world. »
• « Unlike the Egyptians, the Hittites had a practice of adopting the customs, technologies and religions of the peoples they conquered and came into contact with. »
• « The Hittites passed on Mesopotamian technologies (including mathematics, astronomy and engineering), as well as Mesopotamian legends such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, the latter of which may have undergone a long process of translation and reinterpretation to become the Greek story of Hercules. »
• « The Celts were not a unified empire of any kind; they were a tribal people who shared a common culture and set of beliefs, along with certain technologies related to metallurgy and agriculture. »
• « The Celts seem to have become more warlike and expansionist and adopted a number of technologies already in use further south, including chariot warfare and coinage. »
• « However, while fighting, Persia and Rome continued to trade, and Rome also adopted various Persian technologies and military tactics. »
• « The Industrial Revolution was responsible for huge changes in the way people lived their daily lives, not just in how they earned a living or how the things they used were made. Many of these changes were due to the spread of the transport and communication technologies mentioned above. »
• « It is easy to focus on the technologies behind the new imperialism, to marvel at its speed, and to consider the vast expanse of European empires while overlooking what lies behind it all: violence. »