Over 1,000 years ago, during the Tang dynasty, which I have seen recreated tonight, Xian was, perhaps, the most open and culturally advanced city in the entire world.

The culturally advanced Arzawas flourished around 1440 B.C. and disappeared 200 years later without leaving a written record of their civilization.

At that time, Balhae was a culturally advanced country, so that even China referred to the Korean kingdom as "a prosperous country of the East."

A British professor of history concentrates on the development of Hitler's power and the grotesque match between a most-unlikely-to-succeed street ranter and a culturally advanced nation that rushed to embrace him.

During the last year, there has been an apparently spontaneous blossoming of environmental- and historic-preservation groups, involving for the most part university students in the more culturally advanced cities - Leningrad, Tallinn, Riga.

Llongctik was a disaster for food production until the dominant life form developed curing and storage, the pattern that attended every culturally advanced intelligent race.

They have met us as equals, and they had succeeded in counting coup - if I may inject an old Amerind simile - on us several times for all our culturally advanced level.

The Re'lu are a culturally advanced race (at least through their perspective) of light-green humanoids.

It is noted that Balhae was a culturally advanced society, as an official from China described it as the "flourishing land of the East."

Critics of the unidimensional model cite the influx of technologically and culturally advanced European powers into less developed societies into the new world that in essence assimilated the host society.