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 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 the Koine period, Greek of the classic and earlier periods included several regional dialects.

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 Parsons ' departure from The Byrds, he had accompanied the two Rolling Stones to Stonehenge ( along with McGuinn and Hillman ) in the English county of Wiltshire, where Richards had a house near the ancient site.

Prior to the development of the campus, most of the site was cultivated with peach orchards, market gardens and poultry farms.

Prior to this, the site was in an unincorporated area of Alameda County.

Prior to its formal founding, the area was the site of several American Revolutionary War battles: Williams ' Plantation, Dec. 31, 1780 ; Mud Lick, March 2, 1781 ; and Bush River, May 1781.

Prior to its settlement by European and / or African people, on the site of this town was the Creek Indian village called " Tumkeehatchee ".

Prior to the opening of Melching Field, the Hatters played at old Conrad Park on the same site, which also hosted spring training games in the 1940s and 1950s and the DeLand Red Hats, a Florida State League minor league franchise.

Prior to the plat of the village, there was an inn three-quarters of a mile east of the present site, called " Tantivy " or " TAN-TI-VY ".

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Prior to European-American settlement, a major Cayuga Indian village, Chonodote, stood near the present-day site of Aurora village.

Prior to the French and Indian War, a French trading post and block house was located on the site of the future village.

Prior to the seventh century, the site was mainly occupied by small houses, formulating the occasional village.

Prior to the game's release, the publishers launched a web site purporting to be that of an intergalactic travel agency called Starlight Travel, which in the game is the Starship Titanic < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s parent company.

Between October 2008 and June 2009, Askham Bryan College of Agriculture opened its Guisborough Centre, located on the same site as Prior Pursglove College.

Prior to the construction of a museum on the site, archaeologists unearthed a mass grave and personal belongings of the Jewish victims.

Prior to the choice of the name, its construction site had been shown on maps as the generic Bay View Stadium.

Prior to the settlement of the city, an Ojibwa village existed near the present hospital site on the lake's shoreline.

Prior to the concert, the promoters of the event were determined to avoid the gate-crashing that had occurred at previous festivals, and had characterized the site as " defensible ", describing the 12-foot plywood and steel fence intended to keep out those without tickets.

Prior to this, there had been no significant settlement on the site.

Prior to the building ’ s use as a museum, it was the site of the first official government press in the state, founded in 1821.

Prior to the completion in 1844 of a long tunnel through a spur in the Moelwyn Mountain, the slate trains were worked over the top via inclines ( designed by Robert Stephenson ), the site of which can still be seen but there are no visible remnants.

Prior to its closure in 2009, the Valley of the Fallen was the third most visited site of the Patrimonio Nacional after only the Royal Palace of Madrid and El Escorial.

Prior to its incorporation in 1834, the first settlements in the village were to the east of the present village site.

Prior to that, the airport was located approximately one-half mile southwest of its current location at the site where a Best Buy is now located.

Prior to this date, all commercial airline flights through the Sacramento region were handled at the current site of Sacramento Executive Airport, then known as Sacramento Municipal Airport.