It has also been recently suggested that the rapid climatic collapse, marking the Akkadian Dark Age, may have been responsible for the religiously prescribed prohibition against the raising and consumption of pigs that spread through the Ancient Middle East from the end of the third millennium BC.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the game spread with the Australian Diaspora to areas such as New Zealand and South Africa ; however this growth went into rapid decline following World War I.

The relatively recent novel vector has facilitated a far more rapid spread than the simple expansion of habitats North through global warming.

Nothing more was needed to ensure the rapid spread of the new association and Peter the hermit of Morone lived to see himself " Superior-General " to thirty-six monasteries and more than six hundred monks.

The invention of the printing press in the 15th century played a major role in the rapid spread of the Protestant Reformation under leaders such as Martin Luther and John Calvin.

As a result of the above features, the spread of Ebola is very rapid and usually stays within a relatively confined geographical area.

Trotsky's Permanent Revolution advocated rapid industrialization, elimination of private farming, and having the Soviet Union promote the spread of communist revolution abroad.

In the west and highland areas where the Spanish settled, the indigenous population was almost completely wiped out by the rapid spread of new diseases brought by the Spaniards, for which the native population had no immunity, and the virtual enslavement of the remainder of the indigenous people.

Politics in France also played a role in preventing rapid spread of phrenology.

Although the population of northern Norway is sparse compared to southern Europe, the spread of the disease was just as rapid.

Electromagnetic noise is produced in the source due to rapid current and voltage changes, and spread via the coupling mechanisms described earlier.

Fire test in Sweden, showing rapid fire spread through burning of cable jackets.

Slash and burn agriculture requires frequent movement, because soil cultivated in this manner only yields good harvests for a few years before exhausting itself, and the reliance on slash and burn agriculture by the East Slavs explains their rapid spread through eastern Europe.

Asexual reproduction is the dominant form of propagation in the Ascomycota, and is responsible for the rapid spread of these fungi into new areas.

Owing to the rapid build-up, the city is quite spread out, with few tall buildings.

Since the late 1980s, however, the city began a rapid spread north to where Yangon International airport now stands.

Livy informs us that the rapid spread of the cult, which he claims indulged in all kinds of crimes and political conspiracies at its nocturnal meetings, led in 186 BC to a decree of the Senate – the so-called Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus, inscribed on a bronze tablet discovered in Apulia in Southern Italy ( 1640 ), now at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna – by which the Bacchanalia were prohibited throughout all Italy except in certain special cases which must be approved specifically by the Senate.

* The rapid spread of the Bacchanalia cult throughout the Roman Republic, which, it is claimed, indulges in all kinds of crimes and political conspiracies at its nocturnal meetings, leads to the Roman Senate issuing a decree, the Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus, by which the Bacchanalia are prohibited throughout all Italy except in certain special cases which must be approved specifically by the Senate.

The growth of cancer is abnormally rapid, its sole purpose being to spread, therefore it has a voracious appetite compared to normal cells.

" The unbounded spread of the Internet in the early 1990s and the consequent rapid growth of high technology culture had made cyberpunk increasingly relevant, and this was a primary motivation for Sony Pictures's decision to fund the project in the tens of millions.

The era also saw the rapid spread of video arcades across North America, Western Europe and Japan.

Considerable efforts have been made to control the rapid spread of these invasive alien plants.

The rapid spread of such nomadic pastoralism was typical of such later developments as of the Yamnaya culture of the horse and cattle nomads of the Eurasian steppe, or of the Mongol spread of the later Middle Ages.

Current hypotheses suggest that asexual reproduction may have short term benefits when rapid population growth is important or in stable environments, while sexual reproduction offers a net advantage by allowing more rapid generation of genetic diversity, allowing adaptation to changing environments.

Dyslexia is a very broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person's fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, or rapid naming.

In the long term these efforts were generally unsuccessful because specialized database machines could not keep pace with the rapid development and progress of general-purpose computers.

They asserted that organized patterns of information stored in long term memory ( chunks ) mediated experts ' rapid encoding and superior retention.

Active monitoring and deliberate protection may mitigate further rapid destruction making in situ preservation an option, but long term survival can never be guaranteed.

Scientific usage of the term is exclusive, and is not applied to general aspects of cell growth, including rapid growth spurts.

Fluorescent activity is a short term or rapid emission response, unlike phosphorescence, which is a delayed emission.

The term was used to describe the impact of rapid increases in computer power and the complexity of the problems that could be tackled.

With the rapid change of British pop culture from the mod era of 1963 – 1966 to the hippie era of 1967 and beyond, the term fell out of popular usage.

Larger systems, with vehicles with 20 to 40 passengers, are sometimes referred to as " group rapid transit " ( GRT ), although this term is not particularly common.

The term is typically used to refer to rail systems with rapid transit-style features that usually use electric rail cars operating mostly in private rights-of-way separated from other traffic but sometimes, if necessary, mixed with other traffic in city streets.

However, in Europe, the term light rail is increasingly being used to describe any rapid transit system with a fairly lower frequency or shorter trains compared to heavier mass rapid systems such as the London Underground or the Mass Rapid Transit in Singapore.

The rapid growth of deep sea research efforts, especially the widespread use of echosounders in the 1950s and 1960s confirmed the morphological utility of the term.

This, however, does not deter critics of the system, who point to its relative newness, the rapid collapse of prior orders of much greater duration, the effects of modern communications on class consciousness, and a general perceived inadequacy of its ability to deal with various crises of its own making and other long term structural problems.

In the United States that term now means an underground rapid transit system.

The term is believed to originate from the words jabber ( rapid, indistinct talk ) and shivaree ( noisy celebration ), with " m " from jam ( crowd ).

Harder rapids ( for example a grade-V rapid on a mainly grade-III river ) are often portaged, a French term for carrying.

Imprinting is the term used in psychology and ethology to describe any kind of phase-sensitive learning ( learning occurring at a particular age or a particular life stage ) that is rapid and apparently independent of the consequences of behavior.

Imprinting is the term used in psychology and ethology to describe any kind of phase-sensitive learning ( learning occurring at a particular age or a particular life stage ) that is rapid and apparently independent of the consequences of behavior.

Though sometimes used interchangeably, sprechgesang is a term directly related to the operatic recitative manner of singing ( in which pitches are sung, but the articulation is rapid and loose like speech ), whereas sprechstimme is closer to speech itself ( because it does not emphasise any particular pitches ).

The term murmur only refers to a sound believed to originate within blood flow through or near the heart ; rapid blood velocity is necessary to produce a murmur.

In this context the term is used to describe a rapid and massive influx of keyword searches for a particular phrase.