Prior to the Akkadian period the progressive salinisation of the soils, produced by poorly drained irrigation, had been reducing yields of wheat in the southern part of the country, leading to the conversion to more salt-tolerant barley growing.

Prior to the period of these scriptures, Mahāyāna metaphysics had been dominated by teachings on emptiness in the form of Madhyamaka philosophy.

Prior to this period, the College had clung to traditional methods of instruction and was relatively poorly funded.

Prior to this period there was a general perception that the climate of Washington State was too cold to produce red wine varietals.

Prior to the Omride period the site appears to have been the center of an extensive wine and oil production area, which may have accounted for its choice as the new capital.

Prior to this, passing ships stopped irregularly at the island for a period of mere hours.

Prior to this period she performed under her middle name, Ellen, but permanently adopted Tori after a friend's boyfriend told her it suited her.

Prior to this period, Mao was concerned with the dichotomy between knowledge and action.

| 5 | Prior to the Turkish era, the long medieval period had seen a cultural renaissance under the rule of native Berbers, already Arabized.

Prior to beginning the hyperinsulinemic period, a 3h tracer infusion enables one to determine the basal rate of glucose production.

Prior to the Meiji Restoration, Kōchi was known as Tosa Province and was controlled by the Chosokabe clan in the Sengoku period and the Yamauchi family during the Edo period.

Prior to the start of the 2012 – 13 season, Athletic went through a period of some turmoil.

" Prior to the Early Dynastic period, kings were subordinate to priests, and often lived in the same temple complex where the priests lived.

" Prior to this period, starting in 1803, sixteenth sections in each township in Mississippi were established for school purposes.

Prior to that time period, the Mi ’ kmaq lived in Acadia for centuries.

Prior to 2009, the party had only been out of power for a brief 11 month period between 1993 and 1994.

Prior to the use of Fender Basses, Hoppus heavily used Ernie Ball Music Man Stingray basses in various colors during the early days of Blink-182 up until the early Enema of the State period.

Prior to the Meiji period, era names were decided by court officials and were subjected to frequent change.

Prior to the period of these scriptures, Mahayana metaphysics had been dominated by teachings on emptiness in the form of Madhyamaka philosophy.

Prior to a 2002 amendment to the Foreign Service Act ( Section 503 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980, as amended by the Department of State Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003 ), United States government employees were required to resign from government service for their period of assignment to AIT.

Prior to laying there is a period known as the pre-laying exodus in which both the male and female are away from the colony, building up reserves in order to lay and undertake the first incubation stint respectively.

During this period, about the year 1279, as the purposes of the Order shifted from that of religious hospitallers to a more military role, the position of Prior, the Order's religious head, lost its pre-eminent position.

Prior to her posting aboard the Enterprise, T ' Pol on at least one occasion left the Vulcan Compound in San Francisco and visited a Jazz music club ; the chaotic music generated an emotional response that came back to haunt her during a brief period when she abandoned her nightly meditation ritual ( concurrent with her experimentation with mind-melding ).

Prior to independence, Makarios-by virtue of his post as Archbishop of Cyprus and head of the Cypriot Orthodox Church-was the Greek Cypriot Ethnarch, or de facto leader of the community.

Prior to the 2nd millennium BC, the Greek peninsula was inhabited by various pre-Hellenic peoples, the most notable of which were the Pelasgians.

Prior to its expansion under Philip II, the ancient kingdom of Macedonia, to which the modern region owes its name, lay entirely within the current Greek province of Macedonia.

The oldest surviving writing to explicitly consider the rules by which reason operates are the works of the Greek philosopher Aristotle, especially Prior Analysis and Posterior Analysis.

The Latin phrase comes from the Greek en archei aiteisthai in Aristotle's Prior Analytics II xvi:

Prior to the official engagement announcement, he abandoned his Greek and Danish royal titles, converted from Greek Orthodoxy to Anglicanism, and became a naturalised British subject, adopting the surname Mountbatten from his British maternal grandparents.

Prior and during the early days of the Greek War of Independence ( 1821 – 1829 ), a large variety of flags was designed, proposed and used by various Greek intellectuals in Western Europe, local leaders, chieftains and regional councils.

Prior to the 5th century, Armenians had their own spoken language, but it was not written, thus The Bible and Liturgy were written in Greek or Syriac rather than Armenian.

Prior to 1944, Chams were often called by Greek sources Albanophones ( Greek: Αλβανόφωνοι ), or simply Albanians of Epirus.

Prior to 2010, ELSTAT was a non-autonomous service of the Greek state known as the National Statistical Service of Greece ().

Prior to becoming an independent authority, ELSTAT was involved in a number of scandals involving false statistics regarding the condition of the Greek economy in recent years.

Prior to the 20th century BC existed three dialects of Greek: Iawonic, Iawolic and Doric ( Georgiev's names ).

The usual way of connecting the subject and predicate of a categorical sentence as Aristotle does in On Interpretation is by using a linking verb e. g. P is S. However, in the Prior Analytics Aristotle rejects the usual form in favor of three of his inventions: 1 ) P belongs to S, 2 ) P is predicated of S and 3 ) P is said of S. Aristotle does not explain why he introduces these innovative expressions but scholars conjecture that the reason may have been that it facilitates the use of letters instead of terms avoiding the ambiguity that results in Greek when letters are used with the linking verb.

Prior to 1923, wine production on the island was exclusively done by the Greek population ; however, after this point, Turkish domestic wine production increased and Greeks on the island taught the Turkish population how to manufacture wine.

Prior to the 2004 Summer Olympics Games, the host nation Greece, trying to build up their chances of winning a medal, decided to put together team of North American baseball players of Greek heritage.

Prior to that, the Greek National Road 7 ( GR-7 ) was the only road connecting Corinth and Tripoli via Nemea / Dervenakia, Argos and Achladokampos.

Prior to the rise of Christianity, certain " homosexual " practices had existed among certain groups, with some degree of social acceptance in ancient Rome and ancient Greece ( e. g. the pederastic relationship of an adult Greek male with a Greek youth, or of a Roman citizen with a slave ).

Prior to the Turkish offensive Greek intelligence had revealed the Turkish preparations, but it failed to estimate correctly the size of the Turkish formations and the exact date of the Turkish attack.

However in Latin America there were instances of communist radio stations such as Radio Venceremos being jammed, allegedly by the CIA, while there were short lived instances where Britain jammed some Egyptian ( during the Suez crisis ), Greek ( Prior to Cyprus gaining independence ) and Rhodesian stations.

Prior to the late 20th century CE the language remained a total mystery even though many characters of the script appeared to be from Greek alphabet.