They brought with them the Old Church Slavonic liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Christian religion, written Slavic language, the version of which known as Chancery Slavonic was to serve the Lithuanian court's document-producing needs for a few centuries, and developed laws, turning Vilnius into a major center of their civilization.

It was first referenced by an outside civilization in an Old Sabaic inscription of Karab ' il Watar from the early 7th century BCE, in which the King of Hadramaut, Yadail, is mentioned as being one of his allies.

The civilization of Ancient Egypt rose to a peak with the Old Kingdom.

His works frequently juxtapose characters from the Old World ( Europe ), embodying a feudal civilization that is beautiful, often corrupt, and alluring, and from the New World ( United States ), where people are often brash, open, and assertive and embody the virtues — freedom and a more highly evolved moral character — of the new American society.

The settlement of Old Fort was later established and it had become the westernmost outpost of Colonial civilization at the time.

The Old Kingdom is the name given to the period in the 3rd millennium BC when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization in complexity and achievement – the first of three so-called " Kingdom " periods, which mark the high points of civilization in the lower Nile Valley ( the others being Middle Kingdom and the New Kingdom ).

Hinduism in Southeast Asia gave birth to the former Champa civilization in southern parts of Central Vietnam, Funan in Cambodia, the Khmer Empire in Indochina, Langkasuka Kingdom, Gangga Negara and Old Kedah in the Malay Peninsula, the Srivijayan kingdom on Sumatra, the Singhasari kingdom and the Majapahit Empire based in Java, Bali, and parts of the Philippine archipelago.

She reconstructed a hypothetical pre-Indo-European " Old European civilization ", which she defines as having occupied the area between the Dniester valley and the Sicily-Crete line.

In the early 20th century, the term " Old Empire " was sometimes given to this era of Maya civilization in an analogy to Ancient Egypt ; the term is now considered inaccurate and has long been out of use by serious writers on the subject.

In the essay " Substrate Languages in Old Indo-Aryan " ( with RV in this context referring to Rigvedic, i. e. Indo-Aryan ), Witzel says " As we can no longer reckon with Dravidian influence on the early RV, this means that the language of the pre-Rigvedic Indus civilization, at least in the Panjab, was of ( Para -) Austro-Asiatic nature.

According to Isaac Asimov, who considered Gunther " a good friend ," Gunther " felt that civilization was a product of the Old World and could not flourish indigenously in the New.

" Asimov noted that Gunther thus " maintained when Old World civilization was transplanted to the New World, a distortion was introduced and one of the ways in which this distortion was evidenced was by the peculiar American invention of science fiction, which was not to be confused with earlier European ventures in the field ( i. e., Jules Vernes ).

Most historians of East Slavic and Russian folklore believe that byliny as a genre arose during the Kievan period, during the tenth and eleventh century ; byliny continued to be written till about the arrival of the Tatars in the thirteenth century and the destruction of the Old East Slavic civilization.

It confirms the deep-seated conviction of the Old World that America is a provincial place, a second-rate country-town civilization after all.

Finubar sailed to the Old World and found that the humans had some measure of civilization, and rediscovered the Asrai of Athel Loren.

In The Dark Tower series ( 1982 – present ) written by Stephen King, the Old Ones ( also sometimes called Great Old Ones ) were a highly advanced civilization, called the Imperium, that ruled All-World many centuries, or possibly millennia, ago.

In the original version of the first Dark Tower novel, The Gunslinger, it is implied that the civilization of the Great Old Ones is a further development of the present world civilization, and that the world of the Dark Tower series is a decayed, run-down future version of our Earth.

North of Khuzestan is one of the oldest parts of the world civilization, Dezful Choghamish hills with more than 8, 000 years of treasures from different periods and archaeologists have called on the city of dawn. Susa Zanbil temple symbolizes the people of knowledge in this area over 3000 years ago. Apadana Palace, symbol of the greatness of the Iranian, Shushtar waterfalls symbol of Iranian engineering and technology, Dezful Old Bridge, symbol of Persian authority, Cole Farah izeh symbol of nobility of the people & etc.

This was the Europeans ' first encounter with an advanced civilization in the Americas, with solidly built buildings and a complex social organization which they recognized as being comparable to those of the Old World.

The Old One civilization used technology to maintain the Beams of the Dark Tower instead of magic, and sought to literally control reality.

The final blow for the Old One civilization seems to have been nuclear war, biological warfare, chemical warfare, and something " else " that is hinted to be more horrible / powerful than those three, but it is suggested in The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born that it was the final attempt to destroy the Dark Tower itself and rebuild something in their own image as the nexus of space and time.

* The Merk were a race of titan-like First Ones who established an interstellar civilization thousands or millions of years ago, and created the role of Nexus.

Resources are scarce, and relics of the Old Ones ' technology exist mainly in perverted, deranged, or damaged forms that threaten instead of helping the last remnants of civilization.

But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.

The interesting thing about Mr. Lyford's approach, and the approach of the contributors to The Agreeable Autocracies ( Oceana Publications, 1961 ) to the situation of American civilization, is that it is concerned with comprehending the psychological relationships which are having a decisive effect on American life.

but the possibility of this effort is bound up with that development of historical thought which is the greatest achievement of our civilization in the last two centuries, and it is utterly impossible to people in whom this development has not taken place.

yet here was a depth of sensibility which is lacking in a considerable portion of the beneficiaries of our civilization.

He pontificates that `` one of the first signs of advancing civilization is the fall in the value of women in men's eyes ''.

That time is now past and the Atlantic nations, if they are to survive, must develop a full-fledged community, and they must also look beyond the frontiers of `` Western civilization '' toward a world-wide `` concert of free nations ''.

It is, I insist, hard to define the Rayburn contribution to our political civilization because it is so massive and so widespread and so complicated, and because it goes so deep.

Although it is not possible to sunder old and new in this era, I shall consider in the present chapter primarily the first decades of the eighth century and shall interpret them as an apogee of the first stage of Greek civilization.

Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.

When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??

The ancient history of Asia Minor is very important for the history of the Western civilization because it was the region where the mythic way of thought changed gradually to the rational way of thought.

Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt.

A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely due to the impact of its cultural and political achievements during the 5th and 4th centuries BC in later centuries on the rest of the then known European continent.

The Trojan War is supposed by many to have occurred at the height of the Mycenaean civilization ( see discussion of Troy VII ), roughly the point at which this palace appears to have been abandoned.

The process also kills Pham and strands the other humans on the Tines world, now in the depths of the " Slow Zone " where rescue by an advanced civilization is impossible.

* In the film Equilibrium, an arcology named Libria is the last human civilization, a society in which peace is kept by the forced administration of an injected liquid drug designed to completely suppress emotions.

Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations of Greece around the Aegean Sea.

Crete is associated with the Minoan civilization from the Early Bronze Age.

The most representative site explored up to now is Knossos ( see Crete ) which has yielded not only the most various but the most continuous evidence from the Neolithic age to the twilight of classical civilization.