Assertion: precession | /r/HasProperty | fundamental
Facets:
value: to an understanding
type: PURPOSE
value: to the extent
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Rice believes that "the Precession is fundamental to an understanding of what powered the development of Egypt" (p. 10), to the extent that "in a sense Egypt as a nation-state and the king of Egypt as a living god are the products of the realisation by the Egyptians of the astronomical changes effected by the immense apparent movement of the heavenly bodies which the Precession implies.
text: Rice believes that "the Precession is fundamental to an understanding of what powered the development of Egypt" (p. 10), to the extent that "in a sense Egypt as a nation-state and the king of Egypt as a living god are the products of the realization by the Egyptians of the astronomical changes effected by the immense apparent movement of the heavenly bodies which the Precession implies.