The period from 375 to 500 AD constitutes the ( pre-Slavic ) Migration Period.

Based on some etymological interpretation of the words strava and medos, and subsequent historical appearance, the latter has been taken to include a form of pre-Slavic language.

The name is believed to ultimately not be of Slavic origin, but of older pre-Slavic origin.

The name Carantania is of pre-Slavic origin.

The toponym Carinthia ( Slovene: < Proto-Slavic ) is also claimed to be etymologically related, deriving from pre-Slavic * carantia.

Ancient DNA has been retrieved from Thracian populations from the south-East of Romania, which might be helpful in suggesting the genetic make-up of pre-Slavic Bulgaria.

The Serbo-Croatian blavor / blaor / blavur (" European legless lizard ") is cognate with balaur, and it is regarded as one of few pre-Slavic Balkan relict words in Serbo-Croatian.

Being a mountainous region, it perhaps served as an area of refuge for pre-Slavic populations.

From the mid 1980s, Algerian cinema began to go through a long period of lethargy where major productions became rare.

The AMD / USD exchange rate depreciated by 6. 1 percent in the first three quarters of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009, before it began to show the expected end-of-the-year appreciation.

After further preparing the craft for the trans-lunar voyage, the crew began the first sleep period of the mission just under fifteen hours after launch.

The Assyrians began to convert to Christianity from Ashurism during the period between the early 1st and 3rd centuries AD.

With him began the long period of ascendancy of the great academies of Babylonia, around the year 220.

It was only in the subsequent period, from 1977 through 1988, that the three firms began to export arms on a large scale.

A number of previously unreleased Haley country-western recordings from the 1946-1950 period began to emerge near the end of Haley's life, some of which were released by the Arzee label, with titles such as " Yodel Your Blues Away " and " Rose of My Heart.

It was during this period that Victoria began to depend on her servant John Brown, a local ghillie from Crathie who became one of her closest companions during her long mourning.

For some this marks the beginning of the " mature " Classical style, where the period of reaction against the complexity of the late Baroque began to be replaced with a period of integration of elements of both Baroque and Classical styles.

During the period of industrialization, food began to be mass produced, mass marketed, and standardized.

The colonial period began when Christopher Columbus reached the eastern coast of Costa Rica on his fourth voyage in 1502.

The Zhou Dynasty began to bow to external and internal pressures in the 8th century BC, and the kingdom eventually broke apart into smaller states, beginning in the Spring and Autumn Period and reaching full expression in the Warring States period.

In this period, local military leaders used by the Zhou began to assert their power and vie for hegemony.

The final expansion in this period began during the reign of Ying Zheng, the king of Qin.

In around 500 BCE, after the Zhou state weakened and China moved into the Spring and Autumn Period, the classic period of Chinese philosophy began ( it is an interesting fact that this date nearly coincides with the emergence of the first Greek philosophers ).

In his commentary on Daniel 8: 14 published in 1831, he stated that the 2, 300-year period should be calculated from 334 BC, the year Alexander the Great began his conquest of the Persian Empire.

When the last period began, all hope of conciliating the Protestants was gone and the Jesuits had become a strong force.

They began to emerge from that dismal period into a new era of increased consistency, however, after the hiring of Marvin Lewis as head coach in 2003.

During this time period, Marker began to travel around the world as a journalist and photographer, a vocation he would continue the rest of his life.

Since the KMT had completed the first step of revolution through seizure of power in 1928, Chiang's rule thus began a period of what his party considered to be " political tutelage " in Sun Yat-sen's name.

During this period, Alston began to teach the 10-year old Jacob Lawrence, whom he strongly influenced.

During this period Pissarro began to understand and appreciate the importance of expressing on canvas the beauties of nature without adulteration.

Toward the end of the Impressionist period, she began to avoid Degas, against whose " wicked tongue " she was unable to defend herself.

However, during the same period, a group of ambitious producers began working outside the boundaries of DOC regulations to make what they believed would be a higher quality style of Chianti.

Map of ancient Egypt, showing major cities and sites of the Dynastic period ( c. 3150 BC to 30 BC )

Alexis (, c. 394 BC – c. 288 BC ) was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy period.

When the office of Lord High Admiral was in commission, as it was for most of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries until it reverted to the Crown, it was exercised by a Board of Admiralty, officially known as the Commissioners for Exercising the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, & c. ( alternatively of England, Great Britain or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland depending on the period ).

' Archaeological cultures ' in the early Roman period, c. mid C 1 A. D.

Modern scholarly thinking is that the books originated by combining a number of independent texts of various ages when the larger Deuteronomistic history ( the Former Prophets plus Deuteronomy ) was being composed in the period c. 630-540 BCE.

The Book ( s ) of Kings (-the two books were originally one ) presents a narrative history of ancient Israel and Judah from the death of David to the release of his successor Jehoiachin from imprisonment in Babylon, a period of some 400 years ( c. 960-560 BCE ).

Together they illustrate every aspect of the cultures of the Nile Valley ( including Nubia ), from the Predynastic Neolithic period ( c. 10, 000 BC ) through to the Coptic ( Christian ) times ( 12th century AD ), a time-span over 11, 000 years.

The second set – from the later Shang or Yin ( 殷 ) period – is at Anyang, in modern-day Henan, which has been confirmed as the last of the Shang's nine capitals ( c. 1300 – 1046 BC ).

The earliest recorded use of the terms Christianity ( Greek ) and Catholic ( Greek ), dates to this period, the 2nd century, attributed to Ignatius of Antioch c. 107.

Other known maps of the ancient world include the Minoan " House of the Admiral " wall painting from c. 1600 BCE, showing a seaside community in an oblique perspective and an engraved map of the holy Babylonian city of Nippur, from the Kassite period ( 14th12th centuries BCE ).

During the period c. 500-450 BC, the tin deposits seem to have become more important, and fortified settlements appear such as at Chun Castle and Kenidjack Castle, to protect both the tin smelters and mines.

Quintus Ennius ( c. 239 – c. 169 BC ) was a writer during the period of the Roman Republic, and is often considered the father of Roman poetry.

The letter ' G ' was introduced in the Old Latin period as a variant of ⟨ c ⟩ to distinguish voiced from voiceless.

Hipparchus of Nicaea, or more correctly Hipparchos (; c. 190 BC – c. 120 BC ), was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic period.

Agriculture is first attested with the Pre-Pottery A and Pre-Pottery B cultures, which developed out of the earlier Epipaleolithic Natufian culture of the region. In the following period the Yarmukian ( c. 8500 – 4300 BCE ), Jericho IX ( Lodian ) and others developed out of the Munhata, culture, which seem to have developed from a fusion of the Harifian and Pre-Pottery B ..

According to tradition, Brian Boru, ' High King ' of Ireland ( d. at the Battle of Clontarf, 1014 CE ) played the harp, as did many of the gentry in the country during the period of the Gaelic Lordship of Ireland ( ended c. 1607 CE with the " Flight of the Earls " following the Elizabethan Wars ).

The terms also appear in the same period in Evagrius Pontikos ( c. 345 – 399 ), who although he is writing in Egypt is out of the circle of the Cappadocians, and in the Sayings of the Desert Fathers.

The Ubaid culture gives way to the Uruk period from c. 4000 BC.

** Early Dynastic IIIb period: c. 2500 – 2334 BC

* Akkadian Empire period: c. 2334 – 2218 BC ( Sargon )

* Gutian period: c. 2218 – 2047 BC ( Early Bronze Age IV )

* Ur III period: c. 2047 – 1940 BC