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 have used it as a primary source because of its wealth of detail on ordinary life in the 17th century, and the many towns and villages which Fox visited.

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

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

Historians Witner and Ratch, and many others, reported it was used as a fortification to threaten the French right flank, despite being beyond effective reach of guns of the period.

Historians used to say that He Yingqin strongly supported solving this incident by force, for which He contacted Wang Jingwei asking him back to China to take charge of Kuomintang.

Historians have usually discounted the importance of the Panopticon because although Bentham drew up the plan, very few were actually built. Foucault claimed that numerous historians had missed the point: the idea of the Panopticon became used in many different settings in diverse ways.

Historians have customarily treated the state of these later Eastern emperors under the name " Byzantine Empire ", though Byzantine is not a term that the Byzantines ever used to describe themselves.

Historians Gelasius of Caesarea and Rufinus claimed that she discovered the hiding place of three crosses that were believed to be used at the crucifixion of Jesus and of two thieves, St. Dismas and Gestas, executed with him, and that a miracle revealed which of the three was the True Cross.

Historians have used public records to identify Fard as Wallace Dodd Ford, a former restaurateur and Moorish Science Temple leader.

Historians usually translate the title Duke as " Knez ", but it's still a subject of discussion since " Knez " is commonly used to designate a nobleman, but not a monarch ie.

Historians believe that during the reign of the Chinese Emperor Cheng, scarves made of cloth were used to identify officers or the rank of Chinese warriors.

Historians such as Lindley think it more likely that the Gonzales cannon was taken to San Antonio de Béxar, where it was used during the Battle of the Alamo and captured by Mexican troops in March 1836.

Historians are divided as to whether or not gas was in fact used.

Historians also believe he used intelligence gathered from local merchants to get a better idea of the strength of the garrison, the types of watchwords in use, and the placement of sentries – especially on the south side of the point, which could not be seen from Buckberg.

Historians believe the Mohawk Iroquois pushed out or destroyed the St. Lawrence Iroquoians by 1600 and used the uninhabited territory as a hunting and trapping ground.

Historians speak of Gorman, just south of the crest of the Tejon Pass, as " one of the oldest continuously used roadside rest stops in California ," because pre-Columbian indigenous Californians " would have stopped there when it was the Tataviam village of Kulshra ' jek ", a trading crossroads for hundreds to thousand of years.

Historians have estimated at least 500, 000 emigrants used these three trails from 1843 – 1869, and despite growing competition from transcontinental railroads, some use continued into the early twentieth-century.

Historians of the Middle Ages often use " Latin Europe " to refer to the cultural-geographic area of Europe where Latin was used as a working language of the Church, State and / or Academy.

Historians disagree as to whether the term " BU " was commonly used before the BMT was purchased by the City of New York in 1940, or whether it was mainly an introduced term to describe the wooden elevated cars of the former private company.

Historians have used several sources to identify the origins of the early Pandyan dynasty with the pre-Christian Era and also to piece together the names of the Pandyan kings.

While speaking with some of the Historians, she learns that her father used to go on expeditions with a woman named Pandora Shaw, and finds that she was murdered six or seven years ago, leaving behind a daughter named Hester Shaw.

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 one of Patel's key achievements was the building of cohesion and trust amongst the different castes and communities, which were divided on socio-economic lines.

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.