A well-documented and supported theory for the decline of the Maya central lowlands is the deterioration of trade routes. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Maya - A Commercial Empire] Reference
He was a good gouger, and had marked up most of the boys on the "flats" as we called the lowlands where the poorer working people lived. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Puddler]
But what is a bummer for the lowlands is a lift for the mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Blogger KING] Reference
The lowlands were the only habitable land areas and were occupied in the first decade or two of settlement. From Wordnik.com. [Land tenure and management in the boreal region] Reference
The Sierras’ isolation from the Andes by dry lowlands is one of the unique characteristics of this ecoregion. From Wordnik.com. [Córdoba montane savanna] Reference
John: I suspect it's just a comparable use of the word "lowlands" rather than a reminiscence of the Old Country. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: LOWLANDS LANGUAGES.] Reference
All the Tihámah or "lowlands" and their ranges belong to. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian — Volume 1] Reference
It claimed to be the oldest of the Phoenician cities in the "lowlands" of the coast. From Wordnik.com. [Patriarchal Palestine] Reference
In the post-Vatican II years, Belgium and the Netherlands have been known as the "lowlands" of liberal Catholicism. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
The great sugar plantations are likewise on the lowlands. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Straightshaft looked toward the lowlands, hoping to see a bison. From Wordnik.com. [The Later Cave-Men] Reference
Often forming dense thickets in the lowlands bordering the Mississippi. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
In other places, however, glaciers extended far down into the lowlands. From Wordnik.com. [The Later Cave-Men] Reference
They say creatures in the tropical lowlands won't mind if it gets hotter. From Wordnik.com. [In Yosemite, Scientists Find Species Movin' On Up] Reference
Grassy lowlands near the forests stretched farther than the eye could see. From Wordnik.com. [The Later Cave-Men] Reference
The pines also find a congenial home upon the lowlands of the Southern states. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
The cattle had gone to the forests in the lowlands where they spent the winter. From Wordnik.com. [The Later Cave-Men] Reference
One of these extended along the lowlands; the other traversed the grand plateau. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
I can carry it all away grain by grain and leave it in the lowlands or in the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
Also, the lowlands that the line curves around are extraordinarily flat and smooth. From Wordnik.com. [The Search For Life] Reference
My bolts set afire inconspicuous shrubs of lowlands and I have felled towering trees. From Wordnik.com. [NATURAE] Reference
The river then breaks its banks and spreads out over all the lowlands along its course. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
The Chinese and Japanese cultivate the rice along the coast lowlands of Oahu and Kauai. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
A very different type from that found in the lowlands, or in ordinary rustic communities. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
Being accustomed to high elevations, they fall sick and die when removed to the lowlands. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The refugees arriving in the lowlands found unfamiliar diseases and unsanitary conditions. From Wordnik.com. [The Hazards] Reference
Each winter they went to the forests of the lowlands where they found shelter from the cold. From Wordnik.com. [The Later Cave-Men] Reference
Mountain ranges border the edges, and fertile, well-watered lowlands are between the ranges. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Then, too, the difference in temperature between the lowlands and the highlands seems remarkable. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference
The tourist flood from the burning, summer lowlands to the mountains 'refreshment gave him his living. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
On the way, Jeric, Jason's asthmatic cousin, who lived between the uplands and the lowlands, would join us. From Wordnik.com. [Inroads] Reference
He also says it's not clear how many species will remain behind in the hottest areas, the tropical lowlands. From Wordnik.com. [In Yosemite, Scientists Find Species Movin' On Up] Reference
And extending clear across the valley was the foam-crested wave charging down upon the lowlands, but a number of miles away. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
CHARLES: So as thousands of tropical species move uphill, the rich diversity of life in the lowlands could start to disappear. From Wordnik.com. [In Yosemite, Scientists Find Species Movin' On Up] Reference
For hundreds of thousands of years, more than 46,000 glaciers on the plateau have provided a steady flow of water to the lowlands. From Wordnik.com. [BEWARE OF FALLING ICE] Reference
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