The ancient Assyrians also used the Sumerian language in their literature and liturgy, although to a more limited extent in the Middle-and Neo-Assyrian periods, when Akkadian became the main literary language.

Originally the main god of the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel and Judah, worship of Yahweh alone ( monotheism ) became entrenched in Judaism in the exilic and Persian periods.

Czech literature is divided into roughly ten main time periods: the Middle Ages ; the Hussite period ; the years of re-Catholicization and the baroque ; the Enlightenment and Czech reawakening in the 19th century ; the avantgarde of the interwar period ; the years under Communism and the Prague Spring ; and the literature of the post-Communist Czech Republic.

Its main advantage was that it helped spread out the traffic during peak periods, making more grass available.

It can be broken into two main periods:

Fades caused by prolonged periods of wear, without wash, have become somewhat of the main lure to the selvedge denim.

Note that there are three main moving points: the Sun, the Moon, and the ( ascending ) node ; and that there are three main periods, when each of the three possible pairs of moving points meet one another: the synodic month when the Moon returns to the Sun, the draconic month when the Moon returns to the node, and the eclipse year when the Sun returns to the node.

In higher-level tournaments, such as the Kisei tournament, the player's time is often composed entirely of byo-yomi periods ( for example, in an eight-hour game, the player may have 480 periods of one minute each ), rather than having a main block of thinking time.

Three main epochs in the Nephite history as described in the Book of Mormon, separated by two periods where Nephite society experienced particularly significant changes.

There have been three main periods in the construction of this historic castle.

The main architecture gallery has a series of pillars from various buildings and different periods, for example a column from the Alhambra.

The city has retained varied architectural styles from many of the main periods of the past millennium, including Capetian, Gothic and Renaissance.

In Midwestern America, the American Indians had experienced three main periods before the arrival of Europeans in the 17th century.

Humans started hunting reindeer in the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods, and humans are today the main predator in many areas.

In Steiner's view, the main seven archangels with the names given by the esoteric Christianism are Michael ( Sun ), Oriphiel ( Saturn ), Anael ( Venus ), Zachariel ( Jupiter ), Raphael ( Mercury ), Samael ( Mars ), Gabriel ( Moon ) have a special assignment to act as a global Zeitgeist (" time spirit " or, " spirit of the times / age "), each for periods of about 380 years.

Japanese Literature can be divided into four main periods: ancient, classical, medieval and modern.

The history of statements of the law for closed systems has two main periods, before and after the work of Bryan ( 1907 ), of Carathéodory ( 1909 ), and the approval of Carathéodory's work given by Born ( 1921 ).

In a February 2010 interview, Lawless stated the main reason for the name was the periods.

The antiquities found were of three main periods, all preceding the Mycenaean age of Greece.

Although the stone castle was begun in the 1230s, there were three main building phases plus several periods of remodelling.

During the remaining 30 days between the two main observation periods, COROT observes other patches of sky for a few weeks long " Short Runs ", in order to analyze a larger number of stars for the asteroseismic program.

Artists of the late medieval and Renaissance periods often represented him as small and emaciated, with three mitres at his feet ( representing the three bishoprics which he had rejected ) and holding in his hand the IHS monogram with rays emanating from it ( representing his devotion to the " Holy Name of Jesus "), which was his main attribute.

In the 20th century the first part of the prologue ( chapters 1: 1-2: 5 ) and the two parts of the epilogue ( 17-21 ) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked on to the main text, and the second part of the prologue ( 2: 6-3: 6 ) as an introduction composed expressly for the book ; this view has been challenged in the latter decades of the century, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning his source material to introduce and conclude his themes.

The main trend regarding the history of U. S. foreign policy since the American Revolution is the shift from non-interventionism before and after World War I, to its growth as a world power and global hegemon during and since World War II and the end of the Cold War in the 20th century.

His Elements is one of the most influential works in the history of mathematics, serving as the main textbook for teaching mathematics ( especially geometry ) from the time of its publication until the late 19th or early 20th century.

Edvard Munch (; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944 ) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.

Scotland's Scapa Flow was the main base for the Royal Navy in the 20th century.

Some of the main trends in modern Homeric scholarship have been, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Analysis and Unitarianism ( see Homeric Question ), schools of thought which emphasized on the one hand the inconsistencies in, and on the other the artistic unity of, Homer ; and in the 20th century and later Oral Theory, the study of the mechanisms and effects of oral transmission, and Neoanalysis, the study of the relationship between Homer and other early epic material.

The main debate concerning the origin of the Italic languages is the same as that which preoccupied Greek studies for the last half of the 20th century.

By the late 20th century, most nations of the former empire had officially adopted the metric system as their main system of measurement, although as of 2011 the United Kingdom had only partially adopted it.

Two main modern developments in mechanics are general relativity of Einstein, and quantum mechanics, both developed in the 20th century based in part on earlier 19th century ideas.

Research in the 20th century has focused on dating the manuscripts ( 19th-century scholars tended to date them older ); locating where the manuscripts were created — there were seven major scriptoria from which they originate: Winchester, Exeter, Worcester, Abingdon, Durham, and two Canterbury houses, Christ Church and St. Augustine's Abbey ; and identifying the regional dialects used: Northumbrian, Mercian, Kentish, West Saxon ( the last being the main dialect ).

This was the main function of probability before the 20th century,

Their lower ammunition capacities and relatively longer reload times compared to autoloading pistols are the main reasons for the switchover, which occurred over the first half of the 20th century for military applications, and in the 1980s and 1990s for police forces.

An arcade in in Stanford's main quad in the early 20th century

Its main designer was Frederick Todd, a protégé of the junior Olmsted and Canada's most prominent landscape architect of the early 20th century.

In the 20th century, Trinity College, St John's College and King ’ s College were for decades the main recruiting grounds for the Cambridge Apostles, an elite, intellectual secret society.

The main opponents of The World Calendar in the 20th century were leaders of religions that worship according to a seven-day cycle.

The exception to this pattern is the 20th century north-south development on the A23-Brighton line corridor, Sussex's main link to London.

In the deconstruction procedure, one of the main concerns of Derrida is not to collapse in Hegel ´ s dialectic where these oppositions would be reduced to contradictions in a dialectic whose telos would, necessarily, be to resolve it into a synthesis, The presence of Hegelianism was enormous in the intellectual life of France during the second half of the 20th century with the influence of Kojève and Hyppolite, but also with the impact of dialectics based on contradiction developed by Marxists, and including the existentialism from Sartre, etc.

Little Women ’ s popular audience was responsive to ideas of social change as they were shown “ within the familiar construct of domesticity .” Even though Alcott was supposed to just write a story for girls, her main heroine, Jo March, became a favorite of many different women, including educated women writers through the 20th century.

In late 19th and early 20th century, the region ’ s economic growth was remarkable: steel mills and ship yards flourished along the coast from Imperia to La Spezia, while the port of Genoa became the main commercial hub of industrializing Northern Italy.

Segovia's main musical aesthetic preferences were music of the early 20th century ( and turn of the century ) especially in the Spanish romantic-modern and nationalist style.

Best New Horror, a short story from the book 20th Century Ghosts, has the main character reading a horror tale called Button Boy.

In the early part of the 20th century the main thoroughfare in town was lined with Willow trees on both sides for the length of the town.

Alfred George Deller CBE ( 31 May 1912 – 16 July 1979 ), was an English singer and one of the main figures in popularizing the return of the countertenor voice in Renaissance and Baroque music during the 20th Century, and is sometimes referred to as the ' godfather ' of the counter-tenor.