history of mankind

collocation in English

meaningsofhistoryandmankind

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history
noun
uk
/ˈhɪs.tər.i/us
/ˈhɪs.t̬ɚ.i/
(the study of or a record of) past events considered together, especially events of a particular period, country, ...
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mankind
noun[U]
uk
/mænˈkaɪnd/us
/mænˈkaɪnd/
the whole of the human race, including both men ...
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(Definition ofhistoryandmankindfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It really is true that there is almost nothing as ever-present in thehistoryofmankindas war.
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These words express a faith in fundamental progress for the entirehistoryofmankind.
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Between 1947 and 1957, total fertility rates fell by more than half - the first such experience in thehistoryofmankind.
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In the twentieth century, we have experienced the most dreadful wars in thehistoryofmankind.
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There is little doubt that deficiency diseases, and particularly those of certain vitamins have, throughout thehistoryofmankind, been a major cause of disease and death.
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Many of the toponyms of this region became names and concepts in the newhistoryofmankindthat was created by archaeology in the nineteenth and twentieth century.
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Sabzawari's book was ahistoryofmankind.
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Was there ever such a grotesque situation in thehistoryofmankind?
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We all remember that it began with one of the worst tragedies in thehistoryofmankind.
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None of this is new in thehistoryofmankind.
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That is a new phenomenon in thehistoryofmankind.
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For the first time in thehistoryofmankind, man has the means of destroying himself.
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We are entering one of the most remarkable periods in thehistoryofmankind.
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It is an attempt to bring through loud and clear, the nature of the commonhistoryofmankind.
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It was wrecked and devastated as no part of the land ever was in thehistoryofmankind.
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This is no new problem in thehistoryofmankind.
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That would be the most remarkable reversal of the whole basis of human nature and organisation, known in thehistoryofmankind.
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