Thus far the only people who have been attested with a high level of genetic, historical, linguistic and cultural research to be the descendants of the ancient Mesopotamians are the Assyrian Christians of Iraq and its surrounding areas in north west Iran, north east Syria and south eastern Turkey.

Thus parliamentary constituencies were derived from the ancient boroughs.

Thus rta bears a resemblance to the ancient Chinese concept of tao and the Heraclitan, Stoic or Christian conceptions of the logos.

Thus, in the story " Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks ", the Time Patrol's resident agents in the Tyre of King Hiram are a twentieth century Israeli couple, who express their wish to help the ancient Tyrians " in order to compensate a bit for what our country is going to do here.

Thus the ancient Rabbis went to great lengths to try and account for the number of the names of God, by claiming that they account for the various aspects of God.

Thus, the ancient Kamboja, probably included the Badakshan, Pamirs and northern territories including Yagnobi province in the doab of the Oxus and Jaxartes.

Thus, in the pre-Buddhist times ( 7th / 6th c BCE ), the parts of modern Tajikstan including territories as far as Zeravshan valley in Sogdiana formed parts of ancient Kamboja and the Parama Kamboja kingdoms when it was ruled by Iranian Kambojas till it became part of Achaemenid Empire.

Thus wood from ancient structures can be matched to known chronologies ( a technique called cross-dating ) and the age of the wood determined precisely.

Thus, the major peculiarities of the ancient Greek political system were ; firstly, its fragmentary nature, and that this does not particularly seem to have tribal origin ; and secondly the particular focus on urban centres within otherwise tiny states.

Thus, ships carried a great deal of significance to the people of the ancient world, and this is expressed partly through the creation of boat and ship models.

Thus, in Botticelli's interpretation, Pankaspe ( the ancient living prototype of Simonetta ), the mistress of Alexander the Great ( the Laurentian predecessor ), becomes the lovely model for the lost Venus executed by the legendary Apelles ( reborn through the recreative talents of Botticelli ), which ended up in Rome, installed by Emperor Augustus in the temple dedicated to Florence's supposed founder Julius Caesar.

Thus ancient critics identified Sicelidas of Samos ( 1. 40 ) with Asclepiades the Samian, and Lycidas, " the goatherd of Cydonia ," may well be the poet Astacides, whom Callimachus calls " the Cretan, the goatherd.

Thus, even when fighting systems were outlawed by the Spaniards, Filipinos still maintained their centuries-old relationships with blades and blade fighting techniques that survive from ancient times and are still much alive as they have been adapted and evolved to stay relevant and practical in colonial and modern times.

Thus, as in Byzantine chant, the singing is always 2-parts, comprising a melody and an ison, but, as in Znamenny chant, the scale structure is always diatonic, the ornamentation is simplified in comparison with Byzantine chant, and the melodies are more similar to that of ancient Znamenny Chant, at the edge of being considered a local variety of this tradition.

Thus the ancient institution of the levirate marriage fell into disuse, so that at present Halizah is the general rule and marriage the rare exception ( Shulkhan Arukh, Eben ha -' Ezer, 165, and commentaries ).

Thus ' Nippur ' the ancient city of the Mesopotamian people was often termed as " navel ".

Thus this passage describes how the centrality of the ancient city of Jerusalem and of the altar of the ancient temple of Jerusalem within cosmic framework was equated to the navel of a mother that was seen as the source of life.

Thus, they think that the name Lulliacum or Lugniacum comes from the ancient Germanic word lund meaning " forest ", akin to Old Norse lundr meaning " grove ", to which the placename suffix "- acum " was added.

Thus, the two ancient names as Jambhiyagram and Jambubani prove that this district was important as a religious place for Jains and it was also a place of Gupta dynasty in the 19th century.

Thus, despite Dilmun's appearance in ancient texts dating from 3300-2300 BC archaeologists have failed to find a site for Dilmun dating to this period.

Thus some scientists propose new missions to the Moon to search for ancient rocks from Earth.

Thus all in all there is much reason for thinking that the ancient Taoists experimented systematically with hallucinogenic smokes, using techniques which arose directly out of liturgical observance.

Thus, the " Arab plan ", with court and hypostyle prayer hall, truly became a functional type with the construction of the Umayyad Mosque, or the Great Mosque of Damascus ( completed in 715 by caliph Al-Walid I ) on top of the ancient temple of Jupiter and in place of the basilica of St. John the Baptist, the most sacred site in the city.

Thus, Judaism has also been characterized as a culture or as a civilization.

Thus, if n < sub > r </ sub > is the average number of times a new civilization reappears on the same planet where a previous civilization once has appeared and ended, then the total number of civilizations on such a planet would be ( 1 + n < sub > r </ sub >), which is the actual reappearance factor added to the equation.

Thus, civilization was opposed in a dualist manner to barbary, a classic opposition constitutive of the even more commonly-shared ethnocentrism.

Thus William Irwin Thompson suggest that " religion is the form spirituality takes in a civilization.

Thus, planets are allowed to fight out internal wars, and capitalism is the major driving force of civilization.

Thus organized, museum displays would illustrate the evolution of civilization from its crudest to its most refined forms.

Thus, the " Western Civilization ", comprising all the nations that have existed in Western Europe since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, was treated as a whole, and distinguished from both the " Orthodox " civilization of Russia and the Balkans, and from the Greco-Roman civilization that preceded it.

The Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, observes, " Thus that scientific conspiracy of nations which is one of the noblest fruits of modern civilization was by his exertions first successfully organized.

Thus, though the media often proclaims that the problem behaviors of adolescents are causing the downfall of civilization, it is important to remember that most of these behaviors fade over time.

Thus, traditional societies, historical societies, religious societies, either in the East or in the West ( be they tribal, Bedouin, civilized Muslim or non-Muslim societies, in whatever social or cultural stage of civilization they may be ) have all been directly or indirectly influenced by these thoughts, intellectual currents and even new social realities.

Thus, Tamilians have been referred to as the last surviving classical civilization on Earth.

Thus, after his coup d ' état of 4 August 1936, Ioannis Metaxas proclaimed the advent of the " Third Hellenic Civilization " after the civilization of the ancient Greek and Byzantine Civilization.

Thus civilization creates discontent and mental pathology within its members through repression of instinct.

Thus Freud acknowledges that there is irrevocable ill-will within the hearts of man, and that civilization primarily exists to curb and restrain these impulses.

Thus, depending on where they lived – North or South, in the plains or in the mountains, and to which civilization they subscribed to-we have Turkish Arnaut, Greek Arbanas, Albanian Arber, Arben, Arberesh, Epirotas.

Thus, it is seen that the heroicraditions cultivated in Vedic civilization | Vedic and Epic Age continued to the times of Pāṇini and Kautaliya.

Thus it is perfectly conceivable that any social unit, from a community to a civilization, could be found the principle ideational elements ( knowledge, belief, norms, language, mythology, etc.

Thus the exploration of early classical texts like the Kojiki ( 古事記 ) and the Man ' yōshū ( 万葉集 ) allowed scholars of Kokugaku, particularly the five great figures of Keichū (, 1640 – 1701 ), Kada no Azumamaro ( 荷田春満, 1669 – 1736 ), Kamo no Mabuchi ( 賀茂真淵, 1697 – 1769 ), Motoori Norinaga ( 本居宣長, 1730 – 1801 ) and Hirata Atsutane ( 平田篤胤, 1776 – 1843 ) to explore Japan's cultural differences with China, locate their sources in high antiquity, and deploy the results in a programmatic attempt to define the uniqueness of Japan against a foreign civilization.

" Thus the romance would trace back the model of ideal civilization that it proposes, a model also for the orders of chivalry created from the 14th century onwards, to a legendary origin where the glory of Alexander is united with the fame of Arthur.

Thus, some have appealed to theories of sociocultural evolution to assert that optimizing the ecology and the social harmony of closely knit groups is more desirable or necessary than the progression to " civilization.

Thus, many customs were suppressed and Goans became ‘ Westernized ’ to some degree as a Catholic elite who came to see themselves as a “ cultivated branch of a global Portuguese civilization ”.

Thus, as he saw it ( in Comparative Studies in Vaishnavism and Christianity ), Vaishnavism and Christianity were two distinct religious traditions, each with its own uniquely rich tradition of historical exegesis that spanned two millennia and could in no way be seen as being phases in the development of ( a Eurocentric ) human civilization, as one leading to another in a pattern of cause and effect.