The earliest " Incipient Jōmon " phase began while Japan was still linked to continental Asia as a narrow peninsula.

John Paul Goode was one of the key geographers in American Geography ’ s Incipient Period from 1900 to 1940 ( McMaster and McMaster 306 ).

Most dates for the change of phase are broadly agreed, but dates given for the start of the Incipient phase still vary rather considerably, from about 14, 000 BC to 10, 500 BC.

By the end of the Incipient Jōmon phase, around 8, 000 BC, this semi-sedentary culture led to important population increases, so that the Initial Jōmon exhibit some of the highest densities known for foraging populations.

In 1910, the City of Buffalo, New York, beset by the public scourge of tuberculosis, Buffalo's Mayor, James Noble Adam, purchased almost of land adjacent to the village using proceeds from his own personal fortune, for the purpose of establishing the Buffalo Municipal Hospital for Incipient Tuberculosis.

Incipient distortions due to the admixture of current traditions, which figure in the extreme forms of chiliasm, caused a reaction against the earlier interpretations of Bible prophecies.

The very long Jōmon period is conventionally divided into a number of phases: Incipient, Initial, Early, Middle, Late and Final, with the phases getting progressively shorter.

Incipient Jōmon Pottery ( 14, 000 – 8000 BC ) Tokyo National Museum, Japan.

Incipient brain-disease compelled him to withdraw from official life in November 1863.

Incipient or ongoing industrialization is an important indicator of a NIC.

* Incipient – With one wing more stalled than the other, the rotation starts.

* Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari History v. 34 " Incipient Decline ," transl.

* Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari History v. 34 " Incipient Decline ," transl.

* Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, History v. 34 " Incipient Decline ," transl.

Image: JomonPottery. JPG | Incipient Jōmon pottery ( 10, 000-8, 000 BCE ), the earliest pottery type in the world.

* Incipient greisen ( granite ): muscovite ± chlorite, tourmaline, and fluorite.

Imperial daughters and granddaughters, however, usually ascended the throne as a sort of a " stop gap " measure — if a suitable male was not available or some imperial branches were in rivalry so that a compromise was needed.

Kim ( 1901 ) by Rudyard Kipling concerns the Anglo – Russian Great Game of imperial and geopolitical rivalry and strategic warfare for supremacy in Central Asia, usually in Afghanistan.

The chapters involve Kaoru and Niou's rivalry over several daughters of an imperial prince who lives in Uji, a place some distance away from the capital.

The proximity of the shogunate to the imperial court led to a rivalry in the upper levels of society which caused tendencies toward luxurious goods and lifestyles.

The legitimacy of Goryeo itself was also becoming an increasingly disputed issue within the court, as the ruling house failed not only to govern the kingdom effectively, but was also tarnished by generations of forced intermarriage with members of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty imperial family and by rivalry amongst the various Goryeo royal family branches ( even King U's mother was a known commoner, thus leading to rumors disputing his descent from King Gongmin ).

Though these imperial powers had experienced relatively few major conflicts between them over the previous hundred years, an underlying rivalry, otherwise known as “ the Great Game ”, had exacerbated the situation to such an extent that resolution was sought by the early 20th century.

With the place of Catholics in the British Empire still complicated by Ireland's recent wars for independence and centuries of imperial rivalry with Catholic European nations, as prime minister, Lyons traveled to London in 1935 for the Silver Jubilee celebrations of King George V and faced anti-Catholic demonstrations in Edinburgh, then visited his ancestral homeland of Ireland and had an audience with the Pope in Rome.

The Jesuits and the Mendicant Orders kept a lasting rivalry over the Japanese mission and attached to different imperial strategies.

In 843, Liu Congjian the military governor ( Jiedushi ) of Zhaoyi Circuit ( 昭義, headquartered in modern Changzhi, Shanxi ), who had governed Zhaoyi in de facto independence from the imperial government and who had a strident rivalry with Qiu Shiliang, was seriously ill, and Liu wanted his adoptive son ( and biological nephew ) Liu Zhen to succeed him, and set up the power structure at the circuit to facilitate the transition.

Fleury's evident intention was to write a history of the church for all classes of society ; but at the time in which his great work appeared it was less religion than theology that absorbed the attention of the clergy and the educated public ; and his work accordingly appealed to the student rather than to the popular reader, dwelling as it does very particularly on questions of doctrine, of discipline, of supremacy, and of rivalry between the priesthood and the imperial power.

However, in 674, a similar incident happened by Emperor Gaozong's own instigation — as, at an imperial feast, he divided the imperial musicians into two teams and had Li Xián and Li Xiǎn lead the two teams in competition — although he stopped when the chancellor Hao Chujun pointed out the potential for rivalry.

The Frankfurt Parliament attempted to create a national constitution for all German states but rivalry between Prussian and Austrian interests resulted in proponents of the parliament advocating a " small German " solution ( a monarchical German nation-state without Austria ) with the imperial crown of Germany being granted to the King of Prussia.

`` Tact '', by its very derivation, implies that its possessor keeps in touch with other people, but the author of Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam, the wielder of the two swords, the papal sun of which the imperial moon was but a dim reflection, the peer of Caesar and vice-regent of Christ, was so high above other human beings that he had forgotten what they were like.

The failure of Greece to reach the imperial destiny that Periclean Athens had seemed to promise was almost directly attributable to her physical conformation.

The " Former Standard ," used for about 300 years or more in speech in refined language, was the " Schönbrunner Deutsch ", a sociolect spoken by the imperial Habsburg Family and the nobility of Austria-Hungary.

Nevertheless, Antoninus was virtually unique among emperors in that he dealt with these crises without leaving Italy once during his reign, but instead dealt with provincial matters of war and peace through their governors or through imperial letters to the cities such as Ephesus ( of which some were publicly displayed ).

Until the dissolution of Holy Roman Empire and mediatization of smaller imperial fiefs by Napoleon, the evangelical Abbess of Quedlinburg was also per officio the head of that reichsunmittelbar state.

Terracing, however, was only extensively employed after Incan imperial expansions to fuel their expanding realm.

The imperial court was displeased with the religious principles of Ambrose, however his aid was soon solicited by the Emperor.

Ambrose and his congregation barricaded themselves inside the church, and the imperial order was rescinded.

Charles, anxious to secure such a famous fighter, gladly assented to Albert's demands and gave the imperial sanction to his possession of the lands taken from the bishops of Würzburg and Bamberg ; and his conspicuous bravery was of great value to the Emperor on the retreat from Metz in January 1553.

Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, then took command of the troops of the league, and after Albert had been placed under the imperial ban in December 1553 he was defeated by Duke Henry, and compelled to flee to France.

Summoned before the imperial court of justice, Albert refused to appear and was proscribed, while the Order elected a new Grand Master, Walter von Cronberg, who received Prussia as a fief at the imperial Diet of Augsburg.

In imperial politics Albert was fairly active.

Carved in high relief from a single piece of agate, this extraordinary vase was most likely created in an imperial workshop for a Byzantine emperor.

As a member of the imperial family, Agrippina was expected to display frugality, chastity and domesticity, all traditional virtues for a noble Roman woman.

Although Agrippina was very influential, she kept a very low profile and stayed away from the imperial palace and the court of the emperor.

Pallas stated to the emperor that as Lucius was the grandson to Claudius's late brother Germanicus, by marrying Agrippina, Claudius would ally the two branches of the Claudian house and imperial family.

Agrippina removed or eliminated anyone from the palace or the imperial court who she thought was loyal and dedicated to the memory of the late Messalina.

In 50, Agrippina was granted the honorific title of Augusta, a title which, up until this point, no other imperial woman had ever received in the lifetime of her husband.

In 55, Agrippina was forced out of the palace by her son to live in imperial residence.

Suggesting her marriage to Claudius was to a weak emperor who was, because of his hesitations and terrors, a threat to the imperial authority and government.

The empire's breadbasket was the rain-fed agricultural system of northern Mesopotamia ( Assyria ) and a chain of fortresses was built to control the imperial wheat production.