Historians believe that the author of Acts did not have access to a collection of Paul's letters.

Historians including Donald Grinde, Bruce Johansen and others believe that the Iroquois constitution provided inspiration for the United States Constitution and in 1988 was recognised by a resolution in Congress.

Historians widely believe that the widower Thomas Jefferson, both before and during his presidency of the United States in the early 19th century, had an intimate relationship of 38 years with his mixed-race slave Sally Hemings, in such an arrangement, and fathered all of her six children of record.

Historians believe that many of the indigenous peoples of Liberia migrated there from the north and east between the 12th and 16th centuries AD.

Historians such as Joseph Needham have seen this group as developing a precursor philosophy of science that was never fully developed, but others believe that recognizing the Logicians as proto-scientists reveals too much of a modern bias.

Historians believe that parchment craft originated as an art form in Europe during the 15th or 16th century.

Historians believe that nutmeg was introduced to Europe in the 6th century BCE.

Historians believe that the game's ancient origin lay in 12th century France, where a ball was struck with the palm of the hand.

" Historians now believe that no such telegrams ever were sent.

Historians believe that there was a forerunner to the present day Brunei Sultanate.

Historians believe that they were all either displaced or absorbed by the ancestors of the present inhabitants.

Historians believe that they were all either displaced or absorbed by the ancestors of the present inhabitants.

Historians believe that the pilgrimage was a deliberate act by Isabella on Edward's behalf to create a casus belli.

Historians believe that Chief Black Kettle, head of the band, was not part of the war party within the Plains tribes.

Historians believe that the practice of wearing white surcoats was picked up from the Turks during the crusades, and their purpose was to reflect heat, thus protecting mail from direct sun, which heated the mail and the soldier inside.

Historians believe that disease epidemics contributed to the depopulation and collapse of the Mississippian culture.

Historians believe that Patel's speech was instrumental in electrifying nationalists, who had been sceptical of the proposed rebellion.

Historians Arnold W. Gomme and Raphael Sealey believe, and Thucydides reports, that Alcibiades was offended that the Spartans had negotiated that treaty through Nicias and Laches, overlooking him on account of his youth.

Historians were critical of the Bastille in the early 19th century, but now believe the fortress to have been a relatively well-administered institution, albeit deeply implicated in the system of French policing and political control during the 18th century.

Historians believe they have a high degree of falsification ; formal pressure on census takers ( predominantly school-teachers ) was possible, and a new bilingual category was created to further complicate the results.

Historians believe the chief Upanishads were composed over a wide period ranging from the Pre-Buddhist period to the early centuries BCE though minor Upanishads were still being composed in the medieval and early modern period.

Historians believe this poem became instantly famous: in April, the poets of Edo gathered at the bashō hut for a haikai no renga contest on the subject of frogs that seems to have been a tribute to Bashō's hokku, which was placed at the top of the compilation.

Historians believe, however, that Dade County seceded with the State of Georgia and reentered the Union with it.

Historians believe it was used to finance the conspiracy of Aaron Burr.

Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.

Historians widely regard the Revolution as one of the most important events in human history, and the end of the early modern period, which started around 1500, is traditionally attributed to the onset of the French Revolution in 1789.

Historians estimate that fewer than one million immigrants — perhaps as few as 400, 000 — crossed the Atlantic during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Historians and theologians regularly review the changing relationship between some Christian groups and the Jewish people ; the article on Christian-Jewish reconciliation studies one recent issue.

Historians agree he was one of the greatest diplomats and secretaries of state in American history.

Historians have noted that naturalists had long been aware that the individuals of a species differed from one another, but had generally considered such variations to be limited and unimportant deviations from the archetype of each species, that archetype being a fixed ideal in the mind of God.

Historians had nominated one person per century, and for the 12th century John Hudson chose Becket for being " greedy ", " hypocritical ", " founder of gesture politics " and " master of the soundbite ".

Historians dispute King Henry VIII's paternity of one or both of Mary Boleyn's children born during this marriage.

* Historians dispute King Henry VIII's paternity of one or both of Mary Boleyn's children.

Historians regard the battle as one of the most important clashes in the Wars of the Roses, since it brought about a decisive turn in the fortunes of the two houses.

Historians estimate the total number who died due to Mao's persecution in all base areas to be approximately one hundred thousand.

Historians suggested that one robber, Cadet Guillot, took several jewels including the French Blue as well as the Côte-de-Bretagne Spinel and others to Le Havre and then to London, where the French Blue was cut into two pieces.

Harris says that, " Historians have depicted this ruler as one of the weakest of the Bourbons, a do-nothing king who left affairs of state to ministers while indulging in his hobbies of hunting and womanizing.

Historians have estimated the population of the Cheyenne, Lakota and Arapaho encampment along the Little Bighorn River was approximately 10, 000, making it one of the largest gatherings of Native Americans in North America in pre-reservation times.

Historians noted that this was one of the key reasons why imperial China in many ways had the most efficient system of government in ancient times.

Historians have looked upon him as one of the ablest of Napoleon's relatives.

The term was coined in 1988 by one of the leading New Historians, Benny Morris.

Historians have found the tribes on the west of Ireland hardest to identify with known peoples, however Camden and O ' Conor speculated a possible connection between the Gangani and the Concani, one of the eleven tribes in the confederacy of the Cantabri in the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula.

Historians have suggested that the name Pharaon comes from Louis XIV's royal gamblers who called the game pharaon because of the motif that commonly adorned one of the French-made court cards.

Historians find many arguments against this location, but are unable to agree on a better one.

Historians have argued that the desire to impose Roman church authority in the east may have been one of the goals of the crusade, although Urban II, who launched the First Crusade, never refers to such a goal in his letters on crusading.

Historians cite his reluctance to participate in the trials as one of the reasons that the witch hysteria did not take as deep a root in Haverhill as it did in the neighboring town of Andover, which had among the most victims of the trials.

Historians consider Hongwu to be one of the most significant emperors of China.