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 height of the Malenkov – Khrushchev struggle, Khrushchev actively fought for improvements in Soviet agriculture and the strengthening of the role of the Central Committee.

During the height of the reign of terror, David was an ardent supporter of radicals such as Robespierre and Marat, and twice offered up his life in their defense.

During the spin, the dancer kicks out to touch a tassel suspended between knee and waist height.

During and after the war, Kangol berets were the height of fashion.

During the height of collectivization, however, people identified as kulaks were subjected to deportation and extrajudicial punishment.

During the height of his power, Jumbe transported between 5, 000 and 20, 000 slaves through Nkhotakota annually.

During the height of its popularity, the website was receiving over 6 million hits per month.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular at the height of its power under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful states in the world – a multinational, multilingual empire that stretched from the southern borders of the Holy Roman Empire to the outskirts of Vienna, Royal Hungary ( modern Slovakia ) and the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth in the north to Yemen and Eritrea in the south ; from Algeria in the west to Azerbaijan in the east ; controlling much of southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, at the height of the Empire, no other region would prove of more strategic and economic importance.

During the height of the Roman Empire, famous historians such as Polybius, Livy and Plutarch documented the rise of the Roman Republic, and the organization and histories of other nations, while statesmen like Julius Caesar, Cicero and others provided us with examples of the politics of the republic and Rome's empire and wars.

During the reign of Pope Innocent III, the papacy was at the height of its prowess.

During the height of its power in the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC, Meroe extended over a region from the third cataract in the north to Soba, near present-day Khartoum, in the south.

During walking, the center of mass reaches a maximum height at midstance while during running, it is at a minimum.

During the 8th century Wessex was overshadowed by Mercia, whose power was then at its height, and the West Saxon kings may at times have acknowledged Mercian overlordship.

During the height of Urartian power, irrigation canals and an artificial reservoir were built on Yerevan's territory.

During these several months, each new shoot grows vertically into a culm with no branching out until the majority of the mature height is reached.

During the height of the day, photosynthesis is at its peak, producing the highest levels of sugar in sap, making this the least ideal time of day to harvest.

During May and July 2009 several mountains were re-surveyed by the Munro Society to determine a more accurate height reading for those mountains which are known to be close to the 3, 000 ft figure.

During the height of the North American fur trade in the 18th and 19th centuries, many British and French-Canadian fur traders married First Nations and Inuit women, mainly First Nations Cree, Ojibwa, or Saulteaux.

During the height of the Indus valley civilization about 2000 BC, the Harappan colony now known as Shortugai was established near the lapis mines.

During the 1920s, specifically in 1928, the components of the Dow were increased to 30 stocks near the economic height of that decade, which was nicknamed the Roaring Twenties.

During this period in Spain and Latin cultures, women wore lace mantillas, often worn over a high comb, and in Buenos Aires, there developed a fashion for extremely large tortoise-shell hair combs called peinetón, which could measure up to three feet in height and width, and which are said by historians to have reflected the growing influence of France, rather than Spain, upon Argentinians.

During the height of hyperinflation in 1992 – 1993, the Central Bank actually tried to derail reforms by actively printing money during a period of inflation.

During the 19-minute flight, the Duke flew the aircraft at its scheduled en route height of 1, 000 ft.

During La Niña years, the formation of tropical cyclones, along with the subtropical ridge position, shifts westward across the western Pacific ocean, which increases the landfall threat to China.

During the first part of the 13th century, the Přemyslid rulers of Bohemia expanded their political and economic influence westward and came into contact with the political and cultural kingdoms of Western Europe.

During the busy season there were several ferry boats and steamboats available to transport travelers to the Kansas shore where they started their travels westward.

During the planning to evacuate Jiangxi, the First Red Army was unaware that these other Communist forces were also retreating westward.

During the Californian Gold Rush the area became a staging point for westward fortune seekers.

During the reign of Hezekiah, the walls of the city were expanded westward, enclosing a previously unwalled suburb in the area now known as the Old City of Jerusalem, west of the Temple Mount.

During the French and Iroquois Wars, the Iroquois expanded westward and maintained a temporary presence in the area, having displaced other tribes.

During that period, it was the major center for merchants and outfitters as trappers, traders, and emigrants prepared to travel westward on the Santa Fe Trail, California Trail, Oregon Trail, and the Mormon Trail to Utah.

During the colonial wars in North America a fort at the mouth of the Niagara River was vital, for it controlled access to the Great Lakes and the westward route to the heartland of the continent.

During the 19th century, the community was known as Trundles Crossroads, where the main road from Sevierville forked, with one branch continuing northward to Knoxville and one branch westward to Maryville ( now the intersection of Boyds Creek Highway and Old Sevierville Pike ).

During his eight years as mayor, Los Angeles became the third largest city in the United States, with Poulson instrumental in leading the construction of the Los Angeles International Airport, expanding the Los Angeles Harbor, and, most notably, luring baseball's Brooklyn Dodgers westward.

During the 1990s, the University built a $ 3 billion, Albany NanoTech complex, extending the Uptown Campus westward.

During the construction period, the Line 11 station remained open, allowing for westward travel to Châtelet, where a transfer to Line 1 was possible.

During the high and late medieval periods Muslim traders dominated maritime spice trading routes throughout the Indian Ocean, tapping source regions in the Far East and shipping spices from trading emporiums in India westward to the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, from which overland routes led to Europe.

During the 2011 Libyan civil war, Simpson traveled with the rebels during their westward offensive, reporting on the war from the front lines and coming under fire on several occasions.

During the country's westward expansion, Fort Leavenworth was a forward destination for thousands of soldiers, surveyors, immigrants, American Indians, preachers and settlers who passed through.

During the 18th and early 19th centuries Oneida Lake and its tributary Wood Creek were part of the Albany-Oswego waterway from the Atlantic seaboard westward via the Hudson River and through the Appalachian Mountains via the Mohawk River ; travel westward then was by portage over the Oneida Carry to the Wood Creek-Oneida Lake system.

During this period the Don River, which used to flow into the bay to the south-west, was diverted ( straightened ) toward the harbour, first directly southward and later westward through the current configuration of the Keating Channel.

During the uncommonly severe winter of 1787-88, American pioneers to the Northwest Territory departed New England and cut trails westward through the mountains.

During Preston's tenure in that office, the United States Navy acquired new duties in the course of America's westward expansion and acquisition of California.

During 2009 a motorway junction was constructed at Borris-in-Ossory in preparation for the westward extension of the M7 motorway.

During the 19th century, the population of the United States moved westward in pursuit of Manifest Destiny thereby increasing conflict between new settlers and the existing American Indian populations.

During Jedediah Smith's 1826-7 expedition, Robert Evans died in the desert ; and in the 1840s, westward emigrants used the Hastings Cutoff through of Great Salt Lake desert to reduce the distance to California.