Archaeologists have gathered evidence of how an ancient civilization survived a drought in atypical ways. The civilization apparently predates the Inca, the Maya, and the Aztecs, and withstood a ...
“Civilization is an occasional and temporary interruption of the jungle.”—Will Durant. “Civilization” or “being civilized” are not terms that are wholly easy to define. Vagaries and degrees can exist; ...
In April, the American public received two assessments of what went wrong with the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan twenty months earlier. The White House blamed the previous administration for the ...
A long list of lost or submerged lands and extinct civilizations couldn't see ahead, didn't care about their descendants, or cared only about the present. Foresight or the will to do anything about it ...
No one knows why the Hohokam Indians vanished. They had carved hundreds of miles of canals in the Sonoran Desert with stone tools and channeled the waters of the Salt and Gila Rivers to irrigate their ...
Foreword -- Ancient America : The sources -- The origins of the native population of America and of the American cultures -- The birth of agriculture in America -- The geographical setting of the ...
THE AMERICAN SPIRIT — Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard—Macmillan ($5). . This book is a summary of American thought and American civilization from John Adams to Franklin Roosevelt. As the fourth ...
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