Because cacao would not grow in the dry central Mexican highlands and had to be imported, chocolate was an important luxury good throughout the Aztec empire, and cocoa beans were often used as currency.

Because Guest's children are adopted, they cannot inherit the family barony under the terms of the letters patent that created it, though a 2004 Royal Warrant addressing the style of a peer's adopted children states that they can use courtesy titles.

Because of its use to write the Hindi language, Devangari is one of the most used and adopted writing systems in the world.

Because of the cultural influence of China, China's neighbors adopted these titles or had their native titles conform in hanzi.

Because of Ba ' athism's anti-Western stances it preferred the Soviet Union in the Cold War and admired and adopted certain Soviet organizational structures for their governments, however the Ba ' athist regimes have persecuted communists.

Because of the vulnerability of a player in such a position, the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) and the National Federation of State High School Associations (" Fed ") have adopted rules providing that if a player is positioned at least 7 yards behind the neutral zone to receive a snap, opponents are not to deliberately contact the snapper until one second after the snap ( NCAA ), or until the snapper has a chance to react ( Fed ).

Because of violent behavior on the part of the father, the brother was taken in at the age of 3 by foster parents, who adopted him later.

Because they were marked with the letter K ( for Voronezh Komintern Factory ), Red Army troops adopted a nickname from Mikhail Isakovsky's popular wartime song, " Katyusha ", about a girl longing for her absent beloved, who has gone away on military service.

The term Latino was officially adopted in 1997 by the United States Government in the ethnonym Hispanic or Latino, which replaced the single term Hispanic: " Because regional usage of the terms differs – Hispanic is commonly used in the eastern portion of the United States, whereas Latino is commonly used in the western portion.

Because of a slower loading time than a musket, they were not adopted by the whole army.

Because the Thompson was still expensive to produce, the M3 " Grease Gun " was adopted in 1942, followed by the slightly improved M3A1 in 1944.

Because of the shortened season, the NFL adopted a special 16-team playoff tournament.

Because of negotiable options protocol architecture, many extensions were made for it, some of which have been adopted as Internet standards, IETF documents STD 27 through STD 32.

Because of the shortened season, the NFL adopted a special 16-team playoff tournament, in which eight teams from each conference were seeded 1 – 8 based on their regular season records.

Because of the German victory in the Franco-Prussian War and because Japan was used as the model for political and legal reform, the law codes which were adopted were modeled closely after that of Germany.

Because of its simplicity BPSK is appropriate for low-cost passive transmitters, and is used in RFID standards such as ISO / IEC 14443 which has been adopted for biometric passports, credit cards such as American Express's ExpressPay, and many other applications.

Because of color's emotional significance to him, he made explicit recommendations that were close to the theories later adopted by the Neoimpressionists.

Because the Gregorian calendar was adopted during his lifetime, Boone's birth date is sometimes given as November 2, 1734, ( the " New Style " date ), although Boone himself used the October date.

Because of Mentor's relationship with Telemachus, and the disguised Athena's encouragement and practical plans for dealing personal dilemmas, the personal name Mentor has been adopted in English as a term meaning someone who imparts wisdom to and shares knowledge with a less experienced colleague.

Because many people were already using 40-channel radios prior to legalization, the American band plan ( with AM and SSB ) was adopted ; a VHF band was added in 1994.

Because of their sense of neglect by state and federal governments, residents adopted the name " Republic of Hidalgo.

Because Slaughter Beach is such an important area for the continued survival of horseshoe crabs and the migrating birds that depend on their eggs, the town has adopted the horseshoe crab as its official town symbol.

Because of losses to war and disease, the Mohawk and other tribes often adopted younger captives into their tribes.

Because of a home-rule charter adopted in 1974 and effective in 1976, Upper Darby utilizes a mayor-council form of management, unlike communities that are still under the Pennsylvania Township Code.

Because field artillery mostly uses indirect fire the guns have to be part of a system that enables them to attack targets invisible to them in accordance with the combined arms plan.

Because of his chronic illness, combined with the corticosteroids and other medications used to treat it, his growth was limited to, and his face retained a childlike appearance well into adulthood.

Because of this trespass, the king reduced Molteni's and Agricola's combined salaries to a single annual salary of 1, 000 Thalers ( Agricola's annual salary alone had been 1, 500 Thalers ).< ref > Scherer, F. M. < i > Quarter Notes and Bank Notes: The Economics of Music Composition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries .</ i > Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003 .</ ref > Agricola died in Berlin at age 54.

Because of their combined abilities of unlimited expansion and pluripotency, embryonic stem cells remain a theoretically potential source for regenerative medicine and tissue replacement after injury or disease.

Because SECAM transmits only one color at a time, it is free of the color artifacts present in NTSC and PAL resulting from the combined transmission of both signals.

Because the territorial boundary line between the U. S. and Canada ran through the middle of Lake Erie and then up the Detroit River, combined with the prevailing belief regarding the location of the southern tip of Lake Michigan, the framers of the 1802 Ohio Constitution believed it was the intent of Congress that Ohio's northern boundary should certainly be north of the mouth of the Maumee River, and possibly even of the Detroit River.

Because armies and terrain can be combined in all possible ways, miniatures wargaming is generally more varied and flexible than other forms of wargaming.

Because of the high value that spices had in Europe and the large profits rendered, combined with Portugal's growing internal problems, the Dutch and British joined in the conflicts around 1600, to try to gain a monopoly over the trade and expel Portugal.

Because the known laws of physics are all local, and because non-local interactions combined with relativity lead to causal paradoxes, many physicists find this unacceptable.

Because the trapezoid is rigidly attached to the second metacarpal bone to which also the flexor carpi radialis and extensor carpi radialis are attached, radial abduction effectively pulls this combined structure towards the radius.

Whiz Kids origins: Because of their youth, combined with asking lot of questions, Ford employees initially and disparagingly, referred to them as the " Quiz Kids ".

: Because of the many variables in the combined electronic / photographic process, the quality of such recordings often leaves much to be desired.

Because the efforts of Rodgers and Hammerstein were so successful, many musicals followed that contained thought-provoking plots with mature themes, and in which all the aspects of the play, dance, song, and drama, were combined in an integrated whole.

The title track " Falling into You " and " River Deep, Mountain High " ( a Tina Turner cover ) made prominent use of percussion instruments ; " It's All Coming Back to Me Now " ( a remake of Jim Steinman's song ) and a remake of Eric Carmen's " All by Myself " kept their soft-rock atmosphere, but were combined with the classical sound of the piano ; and the number-one single " Because You Loved Me ", which was written by Diane Warren, was a ballad that served as the theme to the 1996 film Up Close & Personal.

The first was a novelization of the first two miniseries combined into one story, originally planned as 2 books, Pinnacle later changed their minds during its writing, and decreed that it should be one book ( The publishers were then left with the option of another book, this became " East coast crisis " ) Because the Writers guide was not ready in time for the authors to consult, most of the original novels that followed did not feature characters or continuing storylines from the TV series, but rather focused on battles against the alien invaders in other parts of the world, some were also set during the " unrecorded year " between the end of " The Final battle " and " Liberation day " to get around this problem.

Because of its properties that prevent water absorption, combined with its lack of flavor and odor, food grade mineral oil is a popular preservative for wooden cutting boards, salad bowls and utensils.

Because of this, and combined with the advent of VHS video recorders, Polavision had a short history.

Because of their excellent sense of smell, combined with their boundless energy and eagerness to please their master, they are sometimes used as drug-sniffer dogs.

Because of the combined risks of shortage of brake power and breaking couplings, the speed of freight trains was initially restricted to.

Because the Cooley-Tukey algorithm breaks the DFT into smaller DFTs, it can be combined arbitrarily with any other algorithm for the DFT.

Because the terminus of one of these lines was at Spui in the centre of Amsterdam ( where the streetcars use standard gauge ) some three-rail track ( combined standard / narrow gauge ) existed there.

Because of this, and combined with the scarcity of the arcade version, the NES version eclipsed its arcade counterpart in popularity.

Because Sweezy ’ s approach combined integrated the micro effects of monopoly with the macro level insights of Keynesian theory it proved superior for understanding the stagflation of the 1970s.

Because of the difficulty in identifying such tiny spiders, there are regular changes in taxonomy as species are combined or divided.