During the Late Bronze Age circa 2000 BC, they created an empire, the Hittite New Kingdom, which reached its height in the 14th century BC, controlling much of Asia Minor.

During the past few centuries of detailed, scientific study of the Bronze Age, it has become clear that on the whole, the use of copper or bronze was only the most stable and therefore the most diagnostic part of a cluster of features marking the period.

During the late Neolithic henge sites were constructed, single burials began to become more commonplace and by the Bronze Age it is possible that even where chambered cairns were still being built they had become the burial places of prominent individuals rather than of communities as a whole.

During the Bronze Age, several artifacts from tumulus burials have been unearthed in central and southern Albania, showing close connection with sites in southwestern Macedonia and Lefkada, Greece.

During prehistoric times there was a succession of cultures that flourished in the land of present-day Moldova from the end of the Ice age up through the Neolithic Age, the Copper Age, the Bronze Age, and the beginning of the Iron Age, when historical records begin to be made about the people who lived in these lands.

During the Bronze Age the pattern of settlement at Mycenae was a fortified hill surrounded by hamlets and estates, in contrast to the dense urbanity on the coast ( cf.

During the Bronze Age, the Aeolian prosper by means of maritime commerce in an area extending from Mycenae to the British isles, from where tin was imported.

During the Early Bronze Age ( 3200-1950 BC ), many villages were built that included defensive fortifications, most likely to protect against marauding nomadic tribes.

During the Middle Bronze Age ( 1950-1550 BC ), migration patterns in the Middle East increased.

During the periods of the collapse of Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia and the First Intermediary Period in Egypt, the Hyksos invasions and the end of the Middle Bronze Age in Assyria and Babylonia, and the Late Bronze Age collapse, trade through the Canaanite area would dwindle, as Egypt, Babylonia, and to a lesser degree Assyria, withdrew into their isolation.

During the Bronze Age, people continued to use local caves as a source of shelter and for burying their dead.

During the Bronze Age in this region, the Kârum was a portion of the city that was set aside by local officials for the early Assyrian merchants to use without paying taxes, as long as the goods remained inside the kârum.

During the 1950s and early 1960s, Gimbutas earned a reputation as a world-class specialist on the Indo-European Bronze Age, as well as on Lithuanian folk art and the prehistory of the Balts and Slavs, partly summed up in her definitive opus, Bronze Age Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe ( 1965 ).

During the Bronze Age, the town surrounded the hill on which the palace was built.

During the Bronze Age the palace at Pylos controlled Messinia politically and economically.

During his service in World War II he was awarded the Bronze Cross twice, the first time in 1934 and for the second time in 1940.

During the construction of the bypass, archaeologists excavating along the route unearthed Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman artefacts.

During the Chalcolithic era and the Bronze Age, humans in the Mideast learned how to smelt, melt, cast, rivet, and ( to a limited extent ) forge copper and bronze.

During 1000 – 900 BC in the Bronze Age the first farmers and cattle-breeders established settlements on the territory of Almaty.

During the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age there were a number of pile dwellings and other settlements around the lakes of the canton.

During the Bronze Age several bridges were built between the promontory of Endingen in Rapperswil, St. Gallen and the settlements at Hurden.

During the Roman era a Roman Vicus was established at Kempraten in Rapperswil around the massive bridge at Seedamm ( near the Bronze Age bridges ) which crossed into Schwyz.

During the Age of Enlightenment, theologians and philosophers presented various philosophies and beliefs.

During the Viking Age, Birka ( Birca in medieval sources ), on the island of Björkö ( literally: " Birch Island ") in Sweden, was an important trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia as well as Central and Eastern Europe and the Orient.

During the Cenozoic, mammals proliferated from a few small, simple, generalized forms into a diverse collection of terrestrial, marine, and flying animals, giving this period its other name, the Age of Mammals, despite the fact that birds still outnumbered mammals two to one.

During the Gunpowder Age, armored cavalry become obsolete.

During the Renaissance Age the dagger was used as part of everyday dress, and daggers were the only weapon commoners were allowed to carry on their person.

During Japanese cinema's ' Golden Age ' of the 1950s, successful films included Rashomon ( 1950 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and The Hidden Fortress ( 1958 ) by Akira Kurosawa, as well as Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ) and Ishirō Honda's Godzilla ( 1954 ).

During Indian cinema's ' Golden Age ' of the 1950s, it was producing 200 films annually, while Indian independent films gained greater recognition through international film festivals.

During the Information Age ( circa 1971 – 1991 ), the Knowledge Age ( circa 1991 to 2002 ), and the Intangible Economy ( 2002 – present ) many see the primary factors of production as having become less concrete.

During what is often referred to as the Islamic Golden Age, in order for a scholar to be qualified to issue a fatwā, it was required that he obtained an ijazat attadris wa ' l-ifta (" license to teach and issue legal opinions ") from a Madrassah in the medieval Islamic legal education system, which was developed by the 9th century during the formation of the Madh ' hab legal schools.

During the Iron Age, the best tools and weapons were made from steel, particularly alloys which were produced with a carbon content between approximately 0. 30 % and 1. 2 % by weight.

During the early Iron Age Brythonic culture held sway, there being no evidence that the Roman occupation of southern Scotland extended to these islands.

During the Islamic Golden Age, there was a logical debate among Islamic philosophers and jurists whether the term Qiyas refers to analogical reasoning, inductive reasoning or categorical syllogism.

During his tenure at Harvard, he was, among many other things, an early student of the effect of the last Ice Age on North America.

During the Zemene Mesafint or " Age of Princes " of Ethiopia, Emperors became figureheads, controlled by warlords like Ras Mikael Sehul of Tigray, and by the Oromo Yejju dynasty, which later led to 17th century Oromo rule of Gondar, changing the language of the court from Amharic to Afaan Oromo.

During what is known as the Little Ice Age, Innocent VIII, in his papal bull Summis desiderantes ( 5 December 1484 ) instigated severe measures against magicians and witches in Germany.

During the Age of the Ajuuraan, the Somali sultanates and republics of Merca, Mogadishu, Barawa, Hobyo and their respective ports flourished, enjoying a lucrative foreign commerce with ships sailing to and coming from Arabia, India, Venetia, Persia, Egypt, Portugal and as far away as China.

During this time he also created Man Seated with Travel Bag ( c. 1938 – 40 ), showing the seedy and bleak environment, contrasting with work like the racially charged Vaudeville ( c. 1930 ) and its caricature style of a man in blackface.

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.

During the New Kingdom ( c. 1550 – 1070 BC ), Amun held this position.

During the late Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period ( c. 2181 – 2055 BC ), the Egyptians gradually came to believe that possession of a ba and the possibility of a paradisiacal afterlife extended to everyone.

During the reign of Hezekiah, between c. 715 and 686 BCE, a notable increase in the power of the Judean state can be observed.

During Egypt's first dynasty ( c. 3000 BC ), sailors were sent out onto its waters, journeying to Punt, thought to be part of present-day Somalia.

During their dig they found the remains of a Benedictine chapel that was built in c. 1139 by monks from Glastonbury Abbey, a reliquary, graves and the remains of much earlier Romano-British chapels built of wood with dating evidence suggesting use by Christians before the reign of Constantine the Great.

During the Warring States period of Chinese history ( 480-221 BC ) extensive development in martial philosophy and strategy emerged, as described by Sun Tzu in The Art of War ( c. 350 BC ).

During the 20th century, the meaning of the term was expanded to refer not only to seaborne raiders from Scandinavia, but secondarily to any Scandinavian who lived during the period from the late eighth to the mid-11th centuries, or more loosely from c. 700 to as late as about 1100.

During the first settlement, c. 13, 000 BC, the village consisted of small round huts, cut into the soft sandstone of the terrace.

During Ottoman campaign in Europe ( XVI-XVII c .), " beylerbeylik " of Trabzon had always sent troops.

During his early career, Degas also painted portraits of individuals and groups ; an example of the latter is The Bellelli Family ( c. 1858 – 67 ), a brilliantly composed and psychologically poignant portrayal of his aunt, her husband, and their children.

During a brief transitional period ( c. 1950s – 1990s ), photographic technology, known as phototypesetting, utilized tiny high-resolution images of individual glyphs on a film strip ( in the form of a film negative, with the letters as clear areas on an opaque black background ).

During the old king's last days he had promised the Marshal the hand and estates of Isabel de Clare ( c. 1172 – 1220 ), but had not completed the arrangements.

During the Islamic conquest of India ( c. 12th c .), some forms came back to India as well, as evidenced in the N. Indian term māt ( mate, derivaative from Persian māt ) or the Bengali borey ( pawn, presumed der.

During the mid-19th century it was thought that it should be possible to measure aether wind effects of first order, i. e. effects proportional to v / c ( v being Earth's velocity, c the speed of light ).

* George Henry Francis, Opinions and Policy of the The Right Honourable Viscount Palmerston, G. C. B., M. P., & c. as Minister, Diplomatist, and Statesman, During More Than Forty Years of Public Life ( London: Colburn and Co., 1852 ).

During the 1920s and very early 1930s, Henderson actually wrote few, if any, arrangements ; most of his recordings were arranged by Redman ( c. 1923 – 1927 ) or Benny Carter ( after 1927 – c. 1931 ).

During the 17th century, Robert Burton wrote in his work The Anatomy of Melancholy, " Out of these two concupiscible and irascible powers arise those mixed affections and passions of anger, which is a desire of revenge ; hatred, which is inveterate anger ; zeal, which is offended with him who hurts that he loves ; and ἐπιχαιρεκακία, a compound affection of joy and hate, when we rejoice at other men's mischief, and are grieved at their prosperity ; pride, self-love, emulation, envy, shame, & c., of which elsewhere.

During his exploration of northwest Europe ( c. 320 BC ), Pytheas of Massilia called the island Iérnē ( written ).