taking the former from the Five Sacred Mountains of the Han period and the latter from the principal river systems of Old China.

In Old Babylonian astronomy, Ea was the ruler of the southernmost quarter of the Sun's path, the " Way of Ea ", corresponding to the period of 45 days on either side of winter solstice.

It has recently been suggested that the regional decline at the end of the Akkadian period ( and First Intermediary Period of the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom ) was associated with rapidly increasing aridity, and failing rainfall in the region of the Ancient Near East, caused by a global centennial-scale drought.

The first inscriptions, called Old Assyrian ( OA ), were made in the Old Assyrian period.

In some cases, the name языкъ блъгарьскъ was used not only with regard to the contemporary Middle Bulgarian language of the copyist but also to the period of Old Bulgarian.

As a national revival occurred towards the end of the period of Ottoman rule ( mostly during the 19th century ), a modern Bulgarian literary language gradually emerged which drew heavily on Church Slavonic / Old Bulgarian ( and to some extent on literary Russian, which had preserved many lexical items from Church Slavonic ) and later reduced the number of Turkish and other Balkanic loans.

Linguistic study of the Khmer language divides its history into four periods one of which, the Old Khmer period, is subdivided into pre-Angkorian and Angkorian.

The changes during this period are so profound that the rules of Modern Khmer can not be applied to correctly understand Old Khmer.

The Code of Hammurabi is the longest surviving text from the Old Babylonian period.

The Old English language, current until approximately sometime after the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066, had a dative case ; however, the English case system gradually fell into disuse during the Middle English period, when in pronouns the accusative and dative merged into a single oblique case that was also used for all prepositions.

Other New Testament authors also quote period literature which was familiar to the audience but that was not included in the Old Testament or the deuterocanonical books.

The contemporary period of the history of the Preachers begins with restorations in provinces, undertaken after revolutions destroyed the Order in several countries of the Old and New World.

The word flute first entered the English language during the Middle English period, as floute ,, or else flowte, flo ( y ) te, possibly from Old French flaute and from Old Provençal flaüt, or else from Old French fleüte, flaüte, flahute via Middle High German floite or Danish fluit.

Already during the high medieval period, and increasingly during the Late Middle Ages, city states and communes such as those of the Old Swiss Confederacy also began to use flags as field signs.

The letter ' G ' was introduced in the Old Latin period as a variant of ⟨ c ⟩ to distinguish voiced from voiceless.

The Old High German period is reckoned to run until about the mid-11th century, though the boundary to Early Middle High German ( second half of the 11th century ) is not clear-cut.

In the testament of Bolesław III Krzywousty, which initiated the period of fragmentation of Poland ( 1138 – 1320 ), the western part of Greater Poland ( including Poznań ) was granted to Mieszko III the Old.

The oldest Babylonian texts on medicine date back to the Old Babylonian period in the first half of the 2nd millennium BC.

It was during the Viking invasions of the Anglo-Saxon period that Old English was influenced by contact with Norse, a group of North Germanic dialects spoken by the Vikings, who came to control a large region in the North of England known as the Danelaw.

The rationale for the differential treatment goes to the heart of the risk a life insurer takes: Old people are likely to die sooner than young people, so the risk of loss ( the insured's death ) is greater in any given period of time and therefore the risk premium must be higher to cover the greater risk.

Very little is known about the Japanese of this period – because writing had yet to be introduced from China, there is no direct evidence ; so anything that can be discerned about this period of Japanese must be based on reconstructions of Old Japanese.

Early archaeological evidence in the traditional Swedish province of Östergötland suggests a general depopulation during this period.

Notable works of this time period include public buildings such as the Royal Swedish Opera and private developments such as the luxury housing developments on Strandvägen.

He was secretary of Societas pro fauna et flora fennica 1842-1846, was employed by the university library 1846-1861, and taught History, Statistics and Swedish at the school Helsingfors lyceum during the same period.

In Europe, Art Cinema gains wider distribution and sees movements like la Nouvelle Vague ( The French New Wave ) featuring French filmmakers such as Roger Vadim, François Truffaut, Alain Resnais, and Jean-Luc Godard ; Cinéma Vérité documentary movement in Canada, France and the United States ; Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, Chilean filmmaker Alexandro Jodorowsky and Polish filmmakers Roman Polanski and Wojciech Jerzy Has produced original and offbeat masterpieces and the high-point of Italian filmmaking with Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini making some of their most known films during this period.

After the Treaty of Roskilde on 26 February 1658, Trondheim and the rest of Trøndelag, became Swedish territory for a brief period, but the area was reconquered after 10 months.

Increasing populations in the small towns of the north and west characterized the second period of urban growth, which began around 1750 in response to shifts in Swedish trade patterns from the Baltic to the North Atlantic.

Sweden created a successful model of democratic socialism because of the unique way in which Sweden's labor leaders, politicians, and classes cooperated during the early development period of Swedish social democracy.

The name of the Vandals has often been connected to that of Vendel, the name of a province in Uppland, Sweden, which is also eponymous of the Vendel period of Swedish prehistory, corresponding to the late Germanic Iron Age leading up to the Viking Age.

Despite such associations and contrary to stated Social Democratic Party policy, Sweden had in fact secretly maintained extensive military co-operation with NATO over a long period, and was even under the protection of a US military security guarantee ( see Swedish neutrality during the Cold War ).

Approximately 1. 3 million Swedes settled in the United States during that period, and there are currently 3, 998, 310 Swedish Americans.

After a period of exploration by people from various European countries, Spanish, Dutch, English, French, Swedish, Russian and Portuguese settlements were established.

Cromwell, having started the war against Spain without Dutch help, during his rule avoided a new conflict with the Republic, even though the Dutch in the same period defeated his Portuguese and Swedish allies.

During the period, he along with the Swedish privy council ruled in Sigismund's name while he stayed in Poland.

The film achieved a sense of the era through extensive use of period Swedish progg and pop songs, including ABBA's hit " S. O. S.

In the latter period he was a paid commissioner of Sweden in the Netherlands and he played a dubious but key role in Pierre Minuit's expedition that led to the Swedish colonizing of New Sweden.

The period of prosperity ended during the Swedish invasion of Poland.

These four years have been considered perhaps the most miserable and degrading period in Swedish history ; an Age of Lead succeeding an Age of Gold, as it has well been called, and may be briefly described as alternations of the fantastic jacobinism and the ruthless despotism.

Charles XI also Carl, ( 24 November 1655 < sup > old style </ sub > – 5 April 1697 < sup > old style </ sub >) was King of Sweden from 1660 until his death, in a period in Swedish history known as the Swedish empire ( 1611 – 1718 ).

During this period three governments were competing for colonial supremacy in the mid-Atlantic coastal area: the Dutch, the Swedish and the English.

As the Swedish art historian Ragnar Josephson calls it “ the second great period of his life as a painter ”.

During the period of the union of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden under king Sigismund III Vasa ( Polish – Swedish union ), diets were held there ; and in 1594 and 1596 it was the meeting-place of two remarkable councils of the Roman-Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church bishops of the region ; the 1596 council establishing the Uniate Church ( known also as the Belarusian Greek Catholic Church in Belarus and Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine ).

The new form of government approved by the council was largely based on the 1772 Instrument of Government, dating from the period of Swedish rule.

The Swedish period in Finnish history, which had lasted some seven centuries, came to an end.

During this period of diplomatic work he acquired an exceptional knowledge of the affairs of Europe, and in particular of Germany, and displayed great tact and temper in dealing with the Swedish senate, with Queen Ulrica, with King Frederick IV of Denmark and King Frederick William I of Prussia.