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Before the arrival of the Normans the Anglo-Saxons had built burhs, fortified structures with their origins in 9th-century Wessex.
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Before the arrival of Europeans, Grenada, was inhabited by Carib Indians who had driven the more peaceful Arawaks from the island.
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Before the arrival of the Portuguese, slavery had already existed in Kongo.
Before his arrival, however, the pirates had been forced to surrender by a force of Bermudian privateers who had been issued letters of marque by the Governor of Bermuda.
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Before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492, the Taíno people populated the island which they called Quisqueya ( mother of all lands ) and Ayiti ( land of high mountains ), and which Columbus named Hispaniola, including the territory of today's Republic of Haiti.
Before the arrival of the Māori in New Zealand, a subspecies of the Black Swan known as the New Zealand Swan had developed in the islands, but was apparently hunted to extinction.
Before the arrival of the First Fleet of Europeans at Sydney in 1788, indigenous Australians survived off the often unique native flora and fauna of the Australian bush, for between 40, 000 and 60, 000 years.
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Before the arrival of Spanish explorers, present-day Argentina was populated by Indigenous peoples.
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Before the arrival of the Portuguese in the early sixteenth century, there is little to Réunion's recorded history.
Before the arrival of Europeans in the 17th century, the Piedmont area was populated by Native Americans.
Before the arrival of white settlers, various Native American peoples, including the Kichai and the Lenape, infrequently populated the area.
Before the arrival of European settlers, the area that is now Cocke County probably was inhabited by Cherokees.
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Before and Normans
Before the Normans arrived, Anglo-Saxon governmental systems were more sophisticated than their counterparts in Normandy.
Before the coming of the Normans, there existed the title of Ard Rí ( High King ), usually held by the Uí Néill, but this was more of a ceremonial title denoting a sort of " first among equals ", rather than an absolute monarchy and unitary state as developed in England and Scotland.
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Before Harmony had a chance to reply, Rod cracked his long whip over his thin oxen's backs.
Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.
Before his departure, a group of his friends, the Reverend Stidger among them, had given him a luncheon, and Stidger had seen advance sheets of Elmer Gantry.
Before the fight was over, the Harlem boy had a concussion and Trig was cut up badly.
Before Payne loomed the Old Clubhouse, Seward's home, where Key had once been killed.
Before he went into battle Andrei had told Alex, `` I only want to be a Pole.
Before the Juniors entered the ring the Steward announced that after all Juniors had moved their dogs around the ring and set them up, they could relax with their dogs.
Before daylight Sunday morning, a posse of twenty-three men under the leadership of Deputy Sheriff Frank MacPherson of Catskill followed the trail to the house of Francisco Chaves, where 100 to 150 Mexicans had gathered.
Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.
Before he was forty Griffith had created the art of the film.
Before he testified for 20 minutes, Stein, who lives at 3300 Lake Shore Dr., admitted to reporters that he had a wide acquaintance with crime syndicate hoodlums.
`` Before then, my sales during much of the year had lagged behind 1960 by 20% '', he says.
Before he could return to Burma, Field Marshal Slim had to rally the defeated remnants of a discouraged army and unite them with fresh recruits.
Before 1800 astronomers had isolated observational errors resulting
Before his departure from the city of Split, he had made over to the Templars the Castle of Klis, a strategic point in the hinterland of Split which controlled the approaches to the town.
Before leaving, he had stacked all his cultures of staphylococci on a bench in a corner of his laboratory.
Before that, several scientists had published or pointed out that mould or penicillium sp.
Before his death on August 11, 1919, Carnegie had donated $ 350, 695, 654 for various causes.
Before his departure for Rome, his friends had applied to the Venetian senate for a pension, to enable him to pursue his studies without embarrassment.
Before Caesar's time they had attached themselves to the Romans, and were honoured with the title of brothers and kinsmen of the Roman people.
Before his death in Herat, on June 9, 1863, Dost Mohammad Khan had nominated as his successor Sher Ali Khan, his third son, passing over the two elder brothers, Afzal Khan and Azam Khan.
Before this, cities and counties of sufficiently large populations such as most of Metro Atlanta already had Sunday alcohol sales at bars and restaurants, with local ordinances to abide by, such as having a certain amount of food sales in order to be opened and serve alcohol.
Before this action, though, he had for the most part opted to continue the Whig policy of limited expansion, preferring to maintain the then-current borders as opposed to promoting expansion.
Before the 1704 campaign ended, the Allies had taken Landau, and the towns of Trier and Trarbach on the Moselle in preparation for the following year's campaign into France itself.
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