Scholars such as Frederick W. Mote argue that the wide drop in numbers reflects an administrative failure to record rather than an actual decrease ; others such as Timothy Brook argue that the Mongols created a system of enserfment among a huge portion of the Chinese populace, causing many to disappear from the census altogether ; other historians like William McNeill and David Morgan argue that the Bubonic Plague was the main factor behind the demographic decline during this period.

Scholars in the first half of the 20th century came to the conclusion that the Yahwist was produced in the monarchic period, specifically at the court of Solomon, and the Priestly work in the middle of the 5th century BC ( the author was even identified as Ezra ), but more recent thinking is that the Yahwist was written either just before or during the Babylonian exile of the 6th century, and the Priestly final edition was made late in the Exilic period or soon after.

Scholars believe it was characteristic of the Jews in Babylon during the Amoraic and Geonic periods, and likewise in early medieval Spain, shown by their engagement with both Muslim and Christian society.

Scholars now believe that at most 27 million Soviet citizens died during the war, including some 8. 7 million soldiers who fell in battle against Hitler's armies or died in POW camps.

Scholars generally agree that these copies were written at Monte Cassino and the end of the document refers to Abbas Raynaldus cu ... who was most probably one of the two abbots of that name at the abbey during that period.

* King's Scholars: An academically select group, marked by black jumpers with white trimmings that have recently replaced their distinctive black gowns, they process wearing surplices during school services in the Cathedral.

) Scholars have disagreed about Buck's role during the years he was Tilney's assistant, 1603 – 10.

Scholars such as Christopher Snyder believe that during the 5th and 6th centuries — approximately from 410 AD when Roman legions withdrew, to 597 AD when St. Augustine of Canterbury arrived — southern Britain preserved a sub-Roman society that was able to survive the attacks from the Anglo-Saxons and even use a vernacular Latin for an active culture.

Scholars have identified Taharqa with Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, who waged war against Sennacherib during the reign of King Hezekiah of Judah ( 2 Kings 19: 9 ; Isaiah 37: 9 ) and drove him from his intention of destroying Jerusalem and deporting its inhabitants — a critical action that, according to Henry T. Aubin, has shaped the Western world.

Macalester's positive reputation grew during the 1960s, when it consistently drew many National Merit Scholars, enough to come in at the country's top ten ; during this time the college also benefitted heavily from DeWitt Wallace's success with Reader's Digest.

Scholars now believe that as many as 27 million Soviet citizens died during the war, including some 8. 7 million soldiers who fell in battle against Hitler's armies or died in POW camps.

Scholars during the Carolingian Renaissance sought out and copied in the new legible standardized hand many Roman texts that had been wholly forgotten.

Scholars have now shown that the Lacandon are the result of a coming together of various lowland Mayan refugee groups during the period of Spanish colonial rule.

Those who accumulate 200 or more hours of community service during their time at UC are designated " Hutton Scholars " and presented with certificates.

The Leyburn Scholars Program in Anthropology provides stipends supporting student research in anthropology during both the academic year and summer.

Scholars presume burning these grasses " may have facilitated communication with spirits " during funeral ceremonies.

Scholars of the Chicago School originally sought to answer a single question: how did an increase in urbanism during the time of the Industrial Revolution contribute to the magnification of contemporary social problems?

Scholars specializing in the study of the history and subculture of Judaism in premodern China ( Sino-Judaica ) have noted this work has surprising similarities with the liturgy of the Kaifeng Jews, descendants of Persian Merchants who settled in the Middle Kingdom during the early Song Dynasty.

In 1952, for example, the Court accepted the claim of the Dean of Westminster to advise the Queen on the proper procedure during the ceremony ( for nearly a thousand years he and his predecessor abbots have kept an unpublished Red Book of practices ), the claim of the Lord Bishop of Durham and the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells to walk beside the Queen as she entered and exited the Abbey and to stand on either side of her through the entire coronation ritual, the claim of the Earl of Shrewsbury in his capacity as Lord High Steward of Ireland to carry a white staff, and the claim of the Queen's Scholars of Westminster School to be the first to acclaim the monarch on behalf of the common people ( their shouts of " Vivat!

Scholars during the current third quest for the historical Jesus have translated the phrase as " God's imperial rule ", or sometimes " God's domain ", to better grasp its sense in today's language.

Will wants to find out about his father, who vanished during an expedition ; Lyra is looking for Scholars who know about Dust.

Scholars have used the term " Aramaization " for the process by which the Akkadian / Assyro-Babylonian peoples became Aramaic-speaking during the later Iron Age.

Scholars believe that the book represents the most literary post-classical Greek language found in the Septuagint, having been written during the Jewish Hellenistic period ( the 2nd or 1st century BC ).

Scholars lack information on this period.

Scholars debate whether the Victorian period — as defined by a variety of sensibilities and political concerns that have come to be associated with the Victorians — actually begins with the passage of Reform Act 1832.

Scholars have connected the month event and Yule time period to the Wild Hunt ( a ghostly procession in the winter sky ), the god Odin ( who is attested in Germanic areas as leading the Wild Hunt and, as mentioned above, bears the name Jólnir ), and increased supernatural activity, such as the aforementioned Wild Hunt and the increased activities of draugar — undead beings who walk the earth.

However, the use of adult male falsettos in polyphony, commonly in the alto range, was common in all-male sacred choirs for some decades previous, as early as the mid-16th century, and modern-day ensembles such as the Tallis Scholars and The Sixteen maintain the use of male altos in period works.

Scholars of this period include Varahamihira and Aryabhata, who is believed to be the first to come up with the concept of zero, postulated the theory that the Earth moves round the Sun, and studied solar and lunar eclipses.

Scholars such as Henry Chadwick see the similar uses of languages and viewpoints recorded in the New Testament and the Dead Sea scrolls as valuable in showing that the New Testament portrays the first century period that it reports and is not a product of a later period.

Scholars disagree on the appropriateness of the term " Warring States Period " ( which is the Chinese term borrowed by the Japanese in calling this period " sengoku jidai ").

In the period from 2006 to 2012, the College claimed a Fulbright Scholar, two Goldwater Scholars, two Rhodes Scholar national finalists, three Truman Scholars, a National Institute of Health Fellow, a George J. Mitchell Scholarship, two Council of Independent Colleges American Graduate Fellowship finalists, a Point Foundation Scholar, a James Madison Fellow, a Gilman Scholar, one USA Today Scholar and seven Teach For America corps members.

Scholars maintain that such fact means that Chodagangadev was a devotee of this god, and as the god's name is preserved in Tekkali in this early period, it seems likely that " Dadhivaman " ( or the tribal form of this Sanskritised name ) was the original name of the wooden god.

Scholars writing in English now often use " red gloss wares " or " red slip wares ", both to avoid these issues of definition, and also because many other wares of the Roman period share aspects of technique with the traditional sigillata fabrics.

Scholars were purged as they were proclaimed bourgeois and non-Marxist during that period.

Scholars generally believe that the Republic of Novgorod had an unusually high level of literacy for the time period.

However, Islamic Scholars claim that the Gospel was translated into Arabic in the post-Islamic period due the difficulty that 16th century Europeans would have in translating early Arabic's defective script into Latin as well as the extreme rarity of written texts in Pre-Islamic Arabia ..

* Allocation of Scholars: During the period 1954-2007, multivariate analyses indicate that the most successful states in the Marshall competition were California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Georgia, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Mainly Scholars of Silhak, like Jeong Yak-yong, Kim Jeong-hui, had interested about tea " drinking " culture and its production at their exile period on tea forested region.

Kluge Scholars will normally be expected to be in residence for a period between six and eighteen months.

At last count, sixteen former Rhodes Scholars ( see box on page 13 ) had been appointed to the Administration, second in number only to its Harvard graduates.

Scholars had to decide which hadith were to be trusted as authentic and which had been invented for political or theological purposes.

Scholars have argued that, if this amendment had been included, the Civil War might have been avoided.

Scholars thought that everything had some purpose in astronomy.

Scholars have pointed out the Supreme Court itself already had engaged in judicial review before Marbury, although it had not struck down the statute in question because it concluded that the statute was constitutional.

Scholars Edward Daniel Clarke and William Richard Hamilton, newly arrived from England, agreed to examine the collections in Alexandria and claimed to have found many artefacts that the French had not revealed.

Scholars note that Cranmer had moved, however moderately at this stage, into identifying with certain Lutheran principles.

Scholars from the Free Methodist Church of North America had a varied response from it " constitutes no threat " to " most accurate ever.

Scholars in the 19th and 20th centuries had relied upon Herodotus's account, but Sir Henry Layard's discoveries in the royal archives at Nineveh and Calah have enabled the study of new source material that is several centuries earlier than Herodotus's history.

Scholars had thought that invaders attacked the city in the 7th or 8th century, sacking and burning it.

Scholars have advanced several explanations to resolve the puzzle of why Peel made the seemingly irrational decision to sacrifice his government to repeal the Corn Laws, a policy which he had long opposed.

Scholars have argued that had he lived, Grenfell might well have become disillusioned like his fellow war poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen.

The " House of Scholars of Merton " originally had properties in Surrey ( in present day Old Malden ) as well as in Oxford, but it was not until the mid-1260s that Walter de Merton acquired the core of the present site in Oxford, along the south side of what was then St John's Street ( now Merton Street ).

Blue Ash is mostly served by the Sycamore Community School District which has had the most National Merit Scholars of any public school in Ohio for the past four years and has been given the highest rating of " Excellent " by the Ohio Department of Education for eight consecutive years.

From their 312 Alumni, they have had 5 National Merit Scholars and 11 students who received Letters of Commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

Scholars were eligible for election to the fellowship after three years of probation, irrespective of whether they had achieved a degree or not.

Elizabeth I re-founded the School in 1560, with new statutes to select 40 Queen's Scholars from boys who had already attended the school for a year.

Scholars have noted that many Moriscos joined the Barbary Corsairs, who had a network of bases from Morocco to Libya.

Scholars were also impressed by the fact that “ the Lacandon resided near the remote ruins of ancient Mayan cities, had the knowledge to survive in the tropical jungle, and were neither Christian nor modernized ”.

Scholars have noted a number of literary influences on " To Autumn ", from Virgil's Georgics, to Edmund Spenser's " Mutability Cantos ", to the language of Thomas Chatterton, to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's " Frost at Midnight ", to an essay on autumn by Leigh Hunt, which Keats had recently read.

Scholars continue to examine and debate the role that Scott and Zelda may have had in stifling each other's creativity.