11. Nowick founded a Zen center here, mostly because of Surry's distance from urban civilization . 12. The Kathmandu Valley in central Nepal became known as Nepal proper because of its complex urban civilization . 13. His campaign for realism and his positive coverage of urban civilization pitted him against the conservative author Mihai Eminescu. 14. Might not the artificiality of urban civilization require what he would call grotesque miniatures to occupy its wasteland of laps? 15. These routes-spreading religion, trade and technology-have historically been vital to the growth of urban civilization . 16. The setting is a future when urban civilization has spread across the globe, with disastrous effects on other species. 17. Parts of the Canaanite urban civilization were destroyed around 2300 BCE, though there is no consensus as to why. 18. After a childhood in the wilds of Greenland, Smilla ( Julia Ormond ) abruptly moved to urban civilization in Denmark. 19. "Because Mesopotamia is the source of all urban civilization , it is a world disaster, " he added. 20. They describe an important urban civilization of about one million people, living in walled cities under small city kings or magistrates.
