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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Maya civilization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		With the decipherment of the Maya script it was discovered that the Maya were one of the few civilizations where artists attached their name to their work.
		Maya civilization also produced numerous texts using the bark of certain trees in a "book-format", called a codex.
		By the end of the 20th century, scholars were able to read the majority of Maya texts to a large extent, and work done in the field continues to further illuminate the content.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Maya_civilization (4381 words)

	The End Of Civilization
		Of course, “terrorism” is ancillary to this clash of civilizations and serves to intensify anxiety in the population.
		The 1970s was the apotheosis of the “American Dream.” Wedged between the preceding decade of civil unrest and the subsequent decade of recessions, rapidly rising homelessness, and mass layoffs, the 1970s was a comparatively idyllic decade.
		Life was good; people were happy, friendly, and mellow; TV shows and movies were cheerful; civil liberties were at their peak; government power was at its lowest ebb; the country was affluent and at its peak of industrial prowess.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article12381.htm (5100 words)

	End Of Empire, End Of Civilization? By Kirkpatrick Sale
		Empires always end by destroying the lands and waters they depend upon for survival, largely because they build and farm and grow without limits, and ours is no exception, even if we have yet to experience the worst of our assault on nature.
		Empires always depend on excessive resource exploitation, usually derived from colonies farther and farther away from the center, and eventually fall when the resources are exhausted or become too expensive for all but the elite.
		Jared Diamond's recent book detailing the ways societies collapse suggests that American society, or industrial civilization as a whole, once it is aware of the dangers of its current course, can learn from the failures of the past and avoid their fates.
	www.countercurrents.org /us-sale230205.htm (1086 words)

	Armageddon Online - The End of Civilization - Scenarios
		Besides the red giant option, there are some astronomers who believe that the sun is currently increasing in luminosty (at a very slow rate), and they predict that in fewer than one billion years, the Earth will be too hot for life as we know it to survive, and have too much radiation as well.
		One is theorized to have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
		The Maya civilization's long count calendar ends abruptly on 21 December (or 23 December) 2012.
	www.armageddononline.org /end_of_civilization.php (1913 words)

	End of Mayan Civilization: c. 1300
		During the time of the Mayan Civilization, its territory stretched across what is now known as Mesoamerica and the Yucatan Peninsula.
		Another accepted theory about the end of the civilization is that the Mayans abused their land in trying to produce agriculture, and this lead to a lack of resources.
		Other possible reasons for the collapse of the Mayan civilization besides the aforementioned include supernatural visions by leaders to move elsewhere, major climatic change, overpopulation, internal warfare, and possible outbreaks of deadly viruses.
	www.thenagain.info /WebChron/Americas/EndMaya.html (450 words)

	The end of civilization - The Boston Globe
		Those meanings (``the clash of civilizations"; a Manichaean good-evil polarity; the rule of law versus the rush to war; blood for oil; imperial hubris or democracy now; Israel as cause or effect) are in dispute.
		Their purposes were mundane, even irrelevant, when compared to the transcendent epiphany that resulted from the unprecedented combination of venality, accident, technological innovation, and instantaneous global communication.
		Not merely the end of the majestic towers, although their majesty was essential to what we saw.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/09/11/the_end_of_civilization (861 words)

	End of Western Civilization
		having lived during the Cold War, when tens of thousands of jeremiahs were predicting the end of the world in a nuclear cloud, fought in Vietnam and been engaged in a few more minor wars, I am acutely aware of the horrors that come with war.
		Some soldiers in a few of these cracked under the strain, others felt that they were owed recompense and campaigned for bonuses and so forth, an unfortunately large number suffered irreparable injuries physical, mental or both.
		The decline of Western civilization is a subject which arouses strong feelings.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/USA/us_endofwesterncivilization.htm (1442 words)

	The end of Western Civilization
		The invader's general contempt for the culture of their host will become evident and will generate resentment between the different cultures, but while this may fester and flare from time to time, the host will confirm the decaying nature of its own culture by being unable to take effective action against the invaders.
		Once the citizens of Western Civilization were determined as well as able, so they dominated the countries occupied by weaker cultures.
		For many citizens of these colonies, modest means enjoyed in peace have been replaced by a perilous poverty, and the only escape from this misery is to go to where wealth and peace still exist, the home countries of their erstwhile colonial rulers.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /theend.htm (1575 words)

	THE PEAK OF WORLD OIL PRODUCTION - Richard C. Duncan
		No doubt that the peak and decline of Industrial Civilization, should it occur, will be due to a complex matrix of causes, such as overpopulation, the depletion of nonrenewable resources, environmental damage, pollution, soil erosion, global warming, newly emerging viruses, and resource wars.
		Industrial Civilization, defined herein, began in 1930 and is predicted to end on or before the year 2030.
		The theory of civilization is traced from Greek philosophy in about 500 BCE to a host of respected scientists in the 20th century.
	www.dieoff.org /page224.htm (5389 words)

	The End of Civilization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The end of human civilization is upon us.
		This has been the global 'modus operandi' to date, exemplified in civilization's current terminal status for failing to seize this "tiller of the world" in 2000 and evolve into an advanced civilization on Earth.
		Collectively, human civilization can still decide to claim its right and proper place in the cosmos- for this IS our divine right as a species and as the miracle that is LIFE.
	geocities.com /kashmir7744/teoc.html (413 words)

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		The recorded history of the world is a record of, "civilizations," or at least prosperous societies (because some were not all that civilized) that flourished, floundered, and failed.
		I've been of the opinion for some years now that Western Civilization is on the way out and is now irretrievable, mainly because the philosophy accepted by 99.9% of the populace is one which, of itself, prevents anyone making the decisions and taking the actions needed to prevent the collapse.
		Even Copernicus, who at the end of the Renaissance made probably its only truly original intellectual contribution (and even then it was too flawed to supersede the Ptolemaic model of the solar system until the work of Kepler a century later), was a Catholic priest.
	usabig.com /wowbbforums/view_topic.php?id=561&forum_id=6 (9550 words)

	Armageddon Online - Asteroid Impacts & Meteor Impacts - Impact Events
		mass extinction to have affected life on Earth was the Permian-Triassic one that ended the Permian period 250 million years ago and killed off 90% of all species.
		The object was in the range of size from a car to a house and should have ended its life in a Hiroshima-sized blast, but there was never any explosion, much less a crater.
		Analysis of the trajectory indicated that it never came much lower than 58 kilometers of the ground, and the conclusion was that it had grazed Earth's atmosphere for about 100 seconds, then skipped back out of the atmosphere to return to its orbit around the Sun.
	www.armageddononline.net /impact_event.php (1760 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Theatre - End Of Civilization Review - 'End of Civilization' leads nowhere
		That's just one of the reasons why End Of Civilization -- Chapter Four, for those who count such things, in George F. Walker's six-part Suburban Motel series -- remains one of the series' most difficult plays to bring to life.
		Civilization opened Wednesday night and is now playing in rep with AE, which opened earlier.
		Civilization is the much more complex of the two -- a play in which the playwright plays fast and loose with concepts of time and human decency, subverting the first in order to bring his audience face to face with the fragile nature of the second.
	jam.canoe.ca /Theatre/Reviews/E/End_Of_Civilization/2005/05/20/1048944.html (577 words)

	fantastic planet » Running Towards the Bomb: Gnosticism and the End of Civilization (III) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Part One discussed the nature of the Crash, and Part Two looked at the Crash from the perspective of the Archons, the Rulers of the Materia, who attempt to direct human society via their servants, those individuals who are enmeshed deeply within the control systems established by the Archons.
		For this reason, the individuals who, whether knowingly or unknowingly, work on behalf of the Logos/Sophia, are “invisible.” This isn’t to say that they can’t be identified per se, just that their actions tend to be overlooked by the Rulers who can’t function very well beyond the level of images.
		The main reason they want to do this is because they want us to be free—free from the control systems of the Archons, free from the restrictions and annoyances of working for someone else in order to survive, free from the world of images that separates us, as a society, from the world of nature.
	www.snant.com /fp/archives/running-towards-the-bomb-gnosticism-and-the-end-of-civilization-iii (4480 words)

	Seat of the Revolution - Post details: End of Western Civilization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This is so because civilization is not willing to do what it takes to rid the world of barbarians.
		Since this civilization is doomed to repeat history forever, down it comes.
		It feels like the end of civilization, but then people have been saying it's the end of civilization and "kids these days" since Plato's time.
	seat.defcode.com /index.php?p=41&c=1 (919 words)

	The End of Civilization, a CurtainUp review
		Civilization fits into Walker's suburban motel cycle of plays in that it is also set in a typical sterile budget motel.
		What makes their story absorbing even without direct ties to the current state of the economy is that it's less about their struggle to cope with unemployment than the depths to which a situation like this can bring some individuals.
		Walker has cleverly spun this descent into the lower depths of civilized behavior into a mystery which also involves two homicide cops and the woman in the room next to the Capes.
	www.curtainup.com /civiliz.html (691 words)

	Amazon.com: The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization: Books: Bryan Ward-Perkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He is careful to explain that the end of the Roman Empire was not a uniform process, and that the Eastern half of the empire continued to flourish until the time of the Arab attacks in the seventh century AD.
		The collapse of the Roman Empire marked the end of the imperial exploitation of the lower classes, and slaves.
		Ward-Perkins looks at the material aspects of civilization (another word he rescues from the 'accommodators') such as pottery, economics, writing, trade, etc. Items/things that may be measured, weighed, tested...the quantifiable in our lives and the lives of a complex society and the things it makes.
	www.amazon.com /Fall-Rome-End-Civilization/dp/0192805649 (4424 words)

	LiveScience.com - End of Oil Could Fuel 'End of Civilization as We Know It'
		Others say the end can't be accurately predicted, but that it is likely decades rather then centuries away, and that the consequences will be grave: huge inflation, global resource wars -- China vs. the United States was emphasized as a possibility -- and the end of civilization as we know it.
		Goodstein, author of the book "Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil" (W.W. Norton and Company) sees a looming world crisis that could fuel war and bring society to its knees.
		"Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime this century, when the fuel runs out," Goodstein said, adding that "I certainly hope my prediction is wrong."
	www.livescience.com /environment/end_oil_041214.html (1125 words)

	Wine Sediments - Online Wine Sales & The End of Western Civilization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Bridget Westhoven: I'm curious as to what your relationship is with Nancy Holt that her wine page is the link that you give to the Traveling Vineyard site.
		Four or five years ago, in the midst of the political and legal battles over the direct shipment of wine, you would occasionally hear of a "sting" operation in which some government organization -- usually in league with wine wholesalers -- would demonstrate that minors could obtain alcohol by mail.
		When the drivers arrive with the wine it gets dropped off at the house with no signature or it is left with a minor, proving that western civilization is ending.
	www.wellfed.net /winesediments/winesediments.php/2006/06/07/wine_sales_aamp_the_end_of_western_civil (773 words)

	The Last Americans: Environmental Collapse and the End of Civilization JARED DIAMOND / Harper's Magazine Jun03
		These civilizations, and many others, succumbed to various combinations of environmental degradation and climate change, aggression from enemies taking advantage of their resulting weakness, and declining trade with neighbors who faced their own environmental problems.
		It's sobering to consider the swift decline of the ancient Maya, who 1,200 years ago were themselves the most advanced society in the Western Hemisphere, and who, like us now, were then at the apex of their own power and numbers.
		Maya warfare involved well-documented types of violence: wars among separate kingdoms; attempts of cities within a kingdom to secede by revolting against the capital; and civil wars resulting from frequent violent attempts by would-be kings to usurp the throne.
	www.mindfully.org /Heritage/2003/Civilization-Collapse-EndJun03.htm (5922 words)

	Theatre UNB Presents The End of Civilization - Events Calendar
		Theatre UNB will present The End of Civilization, one of six plays in acclaimed Canadian playwright George F. Walker's Suburban Motel series, from Feb. 23to 26.
		A dark, gritty drama about a desperate, down-on-their-luck couple and a pair of police detectives hunting a serial killer, The End of Civilization, set against the backdrop of Mike Harris's Ontario, questions the limits of compassion in our supposedly compassionate society.
		The End of Civilization is produced as a thesis production by graduating students in UNB's Fine Arts Minor (Theatre) Program.
	www.unb.ca /news/event-details.cgi?id=2808 (135 words)

	The End Of Civilization? - Official Anna Kournikova Message Boards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Actually I wasn't being serious about the return of Noah and his Ark, or that human fishes will terrorise the remnants of a submerged world, or any part of my doomsday prediction.
		'Twas all baloney, much like any 'end of the world' scaremongering, be it from scientists or religious wacko's.
		Camren is right, so quit all this end of the world gibberish.
	www.kournikova.com /community/showthread.php?p=89012 (1060 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization: Books: Bryan Ward-Perkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Vicious barbarian invasions during the fifth century resulted in the cataclysmic end of the world's most powerful civilization, and a 'dark age' for its conquered peoples.
		The dominant view of this period today is that the 'fall of Rome' was a largely peaceful transition to Germanic rule, and the start of a positive cultural transformation.
		The European Union needed the end of Rome to be a peaceful transition.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Fall-Rome-End-Civilization/dp/0192805649 (1845 words)

	Emboldened » Blog Archive » Questions or The End of American Civilization
		We cannot look at our government and know that our conversations are safe, know that they won’t be analyzed to find out if our dissent, our opinions make us 18% terrorist or 63% terrorist, just on who we talk to and what we think.
		I’m appreciative at the level of skepticism and indignation that was present at times during the hearings.
		But civility and decorum should not be the watchwords when confronted with someone who has worked to undermine the foundations of American civilization.
	www.baltimoregroupblog.com /2006/05/12/questions-or-the-end-of-american-civilization (1884 words)

	How to Save the World
		Because I've come to believe that the end of civilization is something we can't do anything about, nor is it anybody's 'fault', or even necessarily a bad thing.
		There is growing evidence that we were much happier and much healthier before civilization began, when we lived as gatherer-hunters in harmony with, and integrated with, the rest of life on Earth.
		I will try to be a role model for them, so that they too will try to do their best to alleviate suffering and avert the end of man, and in the meantime they will live full, passionate, informed, guilt-free and open lives.
	blogs.salon.com /0002007/2005/05/16.html (1701 words)

	Strat's Place - Daniel Rogov - The End of Civilization ?
		So saying, I have to admit that after visiting the recently opened "Cosmos", I have begun to wonder if we are not sliding downhill blindfolded towards the end of civilization.
		Call me old-fashioned if you like, but I will continue to insist that elegance, which need not be synonymous with expensive, should be part of the life-style of civilized, cultured men and women.
		That such stores can exist and thrive is, of course, as much our fault as it is that of their owners.
	www.stratsplace.com /rogov/end_civilization.html (795 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts features \| The end of civilisation
		Iraq, particularly the green heart of Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent of land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, is the cradle of civilisation, the land of Nineveh, Babylon, Nimrud and Uruk, the world's first city.
		This is where the Sumerians invented writing 5,000 years ago, where the epic of Gilgamesh - the model for Noah and the flood - was committed to cuneiform a millennium and a half before Homer.
		Having failed, as a pariah state, to get them back through official channels, the Iraqis were still trying to buy some back from western collectors when hostilities started.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,927788,00.html (1805 words)

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