Around 500 BCE, following the Achaemenid conquest of Mesopotamia under Darius I, Old Aramaic was adopted by the conquerors as the " vehicle for written communication between the different regions of the vast empire with its different peoples and languages.

Around 300 BCE, it appears that a group from the Gaulish Parisii tribe took over East Yorkshire, establishing the highly distinctive Arras culture ; and from around 150-100 BCE, groups of Belgae began to control significant parts of the South.

Around 930 BCE, the kingdom split into a southern Kingdom of Judah and a northern Kingdom of Israel.

Around 1900 BCE they were replaced by angular harps with verti-cal ( fig.

Around 16, 000 BCE, from the Red Sea hills to the northern Ethiopian Highlands, nuts, grasses and tubers were being collected for food.

Around 7000 BCE, the settlers of the Ethiopian highlands domesticated donkeys, and by 4000 BCE domesticated donkeys had spread to southwest Asia.

Around 1000 BCE, Bantu migrants had reached the Great Lakes of East Africa.

Around 5300 BCE ,-provably-pottery was present in Finland.

Around 9600 BCE the droughts and cold of the Younger Dryas Stadial had come to an end, making it possible for Natufian groups to extend the duration of their stay, eventually leading to year round habitation and permanent settlement.

Around 250 BCE, the eastern part of the Seleucid Kingdom broke away to form the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom.

Around 125 BCE, the Greco-Bactrian king Heliocles, son of Eucratides, fled from the Yuezhi invasion of Bactria and relocated to Gandhara, pushing the Indo-Greeks east of the Jhelum River.

Around the excavated city of Ebla in northern Syria, an Italian mission led by Prof. Paolo Matthiae discovered evidence in 1975 of a great Semitic empire, spreading from the Red Sea north to Turkey and east to Mesopotamia and thriving from 2500 to 2400 BCE.

Around 2500 BCE, after the climate changed, becoming much colder and wetter, the settlement may have been abandoned by its inhabitants.

Around 19 BCE, Herod the Great further expanded the Mount and rebuilt the temple.

Around 19 BCE Herod the Great began a massive expansion project on the Temple Mount.

Around the 5th century BCE, a fully Hellenised and influential image of Cybele, by Agoracritos, was set up in the Athenian agora.

Around 107 BCE a Han princess married to the Usun Hunmo composed a song that called the Wusun country a Sky ( Tian ) country, and in China the Wusun horses ( Usun ma ) were called heavenly horses ( Tian ma ).

Around the 16th century BCE, Judaism developed as the first major monotheistic religion.

Around the date 2700 BCE, production of bronze was common in locales where the necessary materials could be assembled for smelting, heating, and working the metal.

Around 2, 000 BCE nomadic groups here began to be replaced by sedentary peoples who formed farming villages in an area then known as Itzcuincuitlapilco, of which the municipality of Pachuca is a part.

Around 1500 BCE, groups of agrarians with ceramic traditions came to the region from the lowlands.

Around 442 BCE, new comic contests were officially included in the Lenaia, though plays may have been performed there earlier on an informal basis.

Around AD 600, the Taíno Indians, an Arawak culture, arrived on the island, displacing the previous inhabitants.

Around 50, 000 BP modern human culture started to evolve more rapidly.

Around AD 600, the Taíno Indians, an Arawak culture, arrived on the island, displacing the previous inhabitants.

Around 6400 BC the Halaf culture appeared in Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, Syria, Anatolia, and Northern Mesopotamia and subsisted on dryland agriculture.

Around 1300 AD a new group appears to have settled in Trinidad and Tobago and introduced new cultural attributes which largely replaced the Guayabitoid culture.

Around the beginning of 4th millennium Comb Ceramic culture arrived in Estonia.

Simon also collaborated with several artists of his own culture, singing a memorable duet with Linda Ronstadt in " Under African Skies ", and playing with Los Lobos in " All Around the World or The Myth of the Fingerprints ".

Around the curved long sword the bushi built a mystique of fantastic dimensions, one that still influences Japanese culture today.

Around 1300 a new group, the Mayoid entered Trinidad and remained the dominant culture until Spanish settlement.

Around 3, 000 BC, the Neolithic Dapenkeng culture ( named after a site in Taibei county ) abruptly appeared and quickly spread around the coast of the island.

Around the same time a group of Māori migrated to Rekohu ( the Chatham Islands ), where, by adapting to the local climate and the availability of resources, they developed a culture known as Moriori — related to but distinct from Māori culture in mainland New Zealand.

Around 500 BC the Fritzens-Sanzeno culture, also known as culture of the Raeti, after the goddess Raetia who according to roman authors was the main deity of the people inhabiting the region, succeeds both the Laugen-Melaun culture of the southern and the Urnfield culture of the northern part of Tyrol.

Around that time he was coming to the realization that, in his words, " The culture of a public accounting firm is the antithesis of developing software.

" The label has been so influential in anti-corporate independent music and underground DIY punk culture, particularly in the Olympia music scene, that it was the subject of a documentary directed by Heather Rose Dominic entitled The Shield Around the K, with a tagline of " Do It Yourself ".

When folk and hippie culture finally hit a chord around the world the groups The Pebbles (" Seven Horses in the Sky ", " I Get Around ") and The Wallace Collection (" Daydream ") had considerable success in other countries.

Around 1983 with electro booming and early hip hop, breakdancing and b-boy culture making its way from the US, he left dance college to immerse himself in electronic music.

Around 10, 000 years ago the site was occupied by the Magosian culture which in turn gave way to Wilton activity.

Around this time, Bernarr Macfadden, an American exponent of physical culture, popularised the use of fasting to restore health.

Around 1998 / 1999, his focus shifted to Ultima Online ( UO ), an early graphical MMO first released in 1997, and one of the first to become well known in popular culture.