Historians estimate the Alþing to have been established from 800 to 900.

Historians estimate his estate was worth about $ 1 million in 1799 dollars, equivalent to about $ 18 million in 2009 purchasing power.

Historians Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard tentatively estimate a total of 400 arenas throughout the Roman Empire at its greatest extent, with a combined total of 8, 000 deaths per annum from all causes, including execution, combat and accident.

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

Historians estimate that the reason for the rapid capitulation of Mieszko II was the bad internal situation in the country.

Historians estimate that, in the South in 1856, Fillmore retained 86 percent of the 1852 Whig voters.

Historians have used statistical techniques to estimate the party breakdown in Congress.

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

Historians estimate about 2, 000 Cheyenne died, one-half to two-thirds of their population.

Historians estimate that the Pequot suffered the loss of 80 % of their population.

Historians estimate that the Pequot suffered the loss of 80 % of their entire population.

Historians estimate the number of Norman settlers at around 8, 000, but Norman in this instance includes not just natives of Normandy, but settlers from other parts of France.

Historians estimate that fully two per cent of the Chinese community was deported between 1923 and 1932, largely under the provisions of the Opium and Narcotics Drugs Act ( ONDA ).

Historians estimate that Provençal troops killed hundreds to thousands of residents there and in the nearby 22-28 villages which they destroyed.

Historians estimate that in the 1560s, more than half of the nobility were Calvinist ( or Huguenot ), and 1, 200 – 1, 250 Calvinist churches had been established, by 1562 with the outbreak of war, there were 2 million Calvinists.

Historians estimate that 2, 000 Huguenots were killed in Paris and thousands more in the provinces ; in all, perhaps 10, 000 people were killed.

Historians once thought the Iroquois Confederacy started in the 16th century, but a more recent estimate dates the confederacy and its constitution to between 1090 and 1150 CE.

Historians estimate that Cleisthenes was born c. 570 BC.

Historians estimate that up to half of Hungary's two million population at that time were victims of the Mongol invasion of Europe.

Historians estimate he brought in several thousand Chinese from China and many more thousand from California.

Historians John Thornton and Linda Heywood of Boston University estimate that 90 percent of those shipped to the New World were enslaved by Africans and then sold to European traders.

Historians estimate the encampment had some 1, 200 warriors out of the total 4, 800 population.

Historians have struggled to document the number of victims: some sources report up to 1, 830 victims ; others estimate 955 people killed.

Historians estimate, that an average peasant's hut did not last over 10 years.

Historians have had two reasons for persisting so long in their investigations.

Historians suppose that Bolesław's absence from the document might be explained by an old Slavic custom whereby children received their inheritance as soon as they reached the age of majority.

Historians have liberally used emperor and, especially so, empire anachronistically and out of its Roman and European context to describe any large state and its ruler in the past and present ; sometimes even to refer to non-monarchically ruled states and their spheres of influence: such examples include the " Athenian Empire " of the late 5th century BC, the " Angevin Empire " of the Plantagenets, or the Soviet and American " empires " of the Cold War era.

Historians differ about the rule of several kings and their respective times.

Historians have long used the coexistence of these bilingual documents to illustrate their theory that, by 842, the empire had begun splitting into separate proto-countries and developing with different languages and customs.

Historians, folklorists, anthropologists, sociologists, journalists, linguists, and many others employ some form of interviewing in their research.

Historians differ in their assessments as to who was the principal player in the purchase ; the Jefferson biographer Peterson notes a range of opinion among those who credit Napoleon, or others who credit Jefferson, his secretary of state James Madison, and his negotiator James Monroe.

* Historians have employed political economy to explore the ways in the past that persons and groups with common economic interests have used politics to effect changes beneficial to their interests.

Historians adhering to this view suggest that he was circumcised ( a common treatment for phimosis ) to relieve the condition seven years after their marriage.

According to Historians Elliot and Dowson in their book The History of India as told by its own Historians, the first ship bearing Muslim travelers was seen on the Indian coast as early as 630 H. G.

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 use legends as geographers do fabulous animals-to symbolize unknown countries in their maps "-quoted from Spanish Historiography and Iberian Reality by J. N. Hillgarth, History and Theory, Vol.

Historians say that while trading on shore, Stone kidnapped a handful of Pequot, with intentions to sell them into slavery, and was beaten and slaughtered by their rescuers.

Historians such as John Paget and C. T. Atkinson conclude that he probably did write the letter, but did so only when he knew that it would be received too late for its information to be of any practical use ( the plan of the attack on Brest was widely known, and the French had already begun to strengthen their defences in April ).

Historians and archaeologists continue to develop our understanding of British castles, while vigorous academic debates in recent years have questioned the interpretation of physical and documentary material surrounding their original construction and use.

Historians have pointed to the manner of execution of Connolly and similar rebels, along with their actions, as being factors that caused public awareness of their desires and goals and gathered support for the movements that they had died fighting for.

Historians say that King Sakthan Thampuran had invited several Syrian Christian families and Brahmins to settle in Thrissur city from their business centers in adjoining areas.

Historians have differed in their assessments of Pontiac's influence in events beyond the Detroit region.

Historians debate Smith's motivation, whether it was a cynical attempt to defeat the bill by someone opposed to both civil rights for blacks and women, or an attempt to support their rights by broadening the bill to include women.