Scholars speculate that the total Araucanian population may have numbered 1 million at most when the Spaniards arrived in the 1530s ; a century of European conquest and disease reduced that number by at least half.

Scholars argue over where Hebrews fits in the 1st century world.

Scholars have theorized about whether or not Freyja and the goddess Frigg ultimately stem from a single goddess common among the Germanic peoples ; about her connection to the valkyries, female battlefield choosers of the slain ; and her relation to other goddesses and figures in Germanic mythology, including the thrice-burnt and thrice-reborn Gullveig / Heiðr, the goddesses Gefjon, Skaði, Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa, Menglöð, and the 1st century BCE " Isis " of the Suebi.

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 also point to the silence of Photios as late as the 9th century, and the fact that he does not mention the Testimonium at all in his broad review of Josephus.

Scholars in almost every European nation continued to repeat and improve upon Saint Isidore's assertion of descent from Noah through Japheth into the nineteenth century.

Scholars of the 19th century used chemical means to read palimpsests that were sometimes very destructive, using tincture of gall or later, ammonium bisulfate.

Scholars of the 19th century tended to interpret these titles as the names of distinct works covering separate voyages ; for example, Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology hypothesizes a voyage to Britain and Thule written about in " Ocean " and another from Cadiz to the Don river, written about in " Sail Around.

Scholars such as Hans Conzelmann and 20th century theologian John Knox dispute the historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles .< ref >

Scholars in the late 19th and early 20th century explored the generations of families the authors considered disreputable, such as the The Jukes family and the The Kallikak Family ( both were pseudonyms for real families ).

Scholars suggest the story of Ustad Isa was born of the eagerness of the British in the 19th century to believe that such a beautiful building should be credited to a European architect.

Scholars have dated it to some time in the 15th century BC and believe that it illustrates an important concept expressed in Nordic Bronze Age mythology.

Scholars consider the Hepburn Act the most important piece of legislation regarding railroads in the first half of the 20th century.

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

Scholars believe that the fight between Cuchulainn and Ferdiad is a late addition to the Táin, originating not earlier than the eleventh century and drawing on earlier episodes in the story.

Scholars generally fall into one of two main camps: an " early camp " favoring a date for the " core " of between the years 50 and 100, before or approximately contemporary with the composition of the canonical gospels and a " late camp " favoring a date in the 2nd century, after composition of the canonical gospels.

" Scholars have proposed various dates between the 9th century and 16th century.

* Monfasani, John, ' Platonic paganism in the fifteenth century ', in: John Monfasani, Byzantine Scholars in Renaissance Italy: Cardinal Bessarion and Other Émigrés, ( Aldershot, 1995 ), no.

Scholars have generally dated him from the end of the 4th to the early part of the 5th century AD.

The Queen's Scholars have privileged access to the House of Commons gallery, said to be a compromise recorded in the Standing Orders of the House in the 19th century, to stop the boys from climbing into the Palace over the roofs.

In addition, Scholars receive a monthly maintenance stipend to cover accommodation and living expenses .< ref > Although all scholars become affiliated with a residential college while at Oxford, they also enjoy access to Rhodes House, an early 20th century mansion with numerous public rooms, gardens, a library, study areas, and other facilities.

Scholars also believe that the name of the individual may originally have been Shammah, and became corrupted under the influence of the Shamgar in the Song of Deborah.

Scholars have always disagreed concerning when written record-keeping became more like " literature " than anything else ; the definition is largely subjective.

Scholars now believe that he became associated with the Malleus Maleficarum largely as a result of Kramer's wish to lend his book as much official authority as possible.

Thus, long before their numbers swelled and their own association was formed, Emery became one of Australia's outstanding Independent Scholars.

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

In 1930, he won the Maurice Cody scholarship, and then became one of Ontario's Rhodes Scholars that same year.

Scholars have interpreted the allusions to mean that Brome may have begun as a menial servant but later became a sort of secretary and general assistant to the older playwright.

Scholars analyzing the colonial gardens have noticed that gardens were designed in a neat and orderly fashion, displaying symmetry and inspired by Baroque and Renaissance styles ( this style is often described as indicative of a " Georgian Worldview " that became popular during the 17th and 18th centuries ).

Scholars have suggested that President Clinton could not have known about the genocide until around April 20, 1994, when it became popularized in the media.

He became one of the first Rhodes Scholars and studied at Brasenose College, Oxford University.

He became friends with former President Bill Clinton when both were Rhodes Scholars at the University of Oxford ; during his studies there he translated Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs into English.

After leaving the government, he became fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars for two years.

The local campaign team later became the founding members of Society of Scholars and Teachers of Qom's Hawza ( majma '- e mohaghgheghin va modarresin-e howze-ye elmiyye-ye ghom ), the political organization of reformist clerics of the city.

Vincent became the first active NFL player to serve on the National Board of Directors for Pop Warner Little Scholars Football.

Rocks of unusual shapes, known as Chinese Scholars ' Rocks, often selected to portray the part of a mountain or mountain range in a garden scene, gradually became an essential feature of the Chinese garden.

After serving as a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D. C., Lehman became the chancellor and founding dean of the Peking University School of Transnational Law, located on the university's Shenzhen campus.

Scholars at Memorial University of Newfoundland concluded that Newfoundland Irish became extinct during the 20th century.

Scholars generally consider Matthew's account to be more likely to be the original arrangement, however Luke's version became more popular in the tradition.

Tomlin's dream finally became a reality when Pop Warner Little Scholars was officially incorporated as a national non-profit organization in 1959.

Scholars often distinguish between the earlier blackletter broadsides, using larger heavy ‘ gothic ’ print, most common up to the middle of the seventeenth century, and lighter whiteletter, roman or italic typefaces, that were easier to read and became common thereafter.