The zero was probably introduced to the Chinese in the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 AD ) when travel in the Indian Ocean and the Middle East would have provided direct contact with India, allowing them to acquire the concept of zero and the decimal point from Indian merchants and mathematicians.

The first European contact with chocolate came when Montezuma ( then tlatoani of Tenochtitlan ) introduced Hernán Cortés, a Spanish conquistador, to xocolatl in the 16th century.

In 1987, new rules were introduced that banned, under penalty of excommunication, sexual contact with non-members.

Most innovations to a lexicon are either loan words introduced by bilingual speakers during language contact or compound words created from existing morphemes.

Christianity was introduced to the Franks by their contact with Gallo-Romanic culture and later further spread by monks.

Around 1700 the concept and practice of kingship appear to have been introduced through contact with Samoa or Tonga.

Around 1700, the concept and practice of kingship appears to have been introduced through contact with Samoa or Tonga.

Each piston is inside a cylinder, into which a gas is introduced, either already under pressure ( e. g. steam engine ), or heated inside the cylinder either by ignition of a fuel air mixture ( internal combustion engine ) or by contact with a hot heat exchanger in the cylinder ( Stirling engine ).

Cabbage rolls were introduced in Sweden by Karl XII who came in contact with this dish at the time of the Battle of Poltava and during his camp in the Turkish Bender and later introduced by his Ottoman creditors, who moved to Stockholm in 1716.

In 1873, Willard Gibbs published A Method of Geometrical Representation of the Thermodynamic Properties of Substances by Means of Surfaces, in which he introduced the preliminary outline of the principles of his new equation able to predict or estimate the tendencies of various natural processes to ensue when bodies or systems are brought into contact.

Thus the large-scale contact with Europeans after 1492 introduced novel germs to the indigenous people of the Americas.

After outlining the various aspects of the contact, Staal posits the theory that the idea of formal rules in language, first proposed by de Saussure in 1894, and finally developed by Chomsky in 1957, based on which formal rules were also introduced in computational languages, may indeed lie in the European exposure to the formal rules of Paninian grammar.

Abroad, he got introduced to and kept contact with many well-known criminals from Yugoslavia such as Ljuba Zemunac, Ranko Rubežić, Đorđe " Giška " Božović, Goran Vuković, Rade " Ćenta " Ćaldović etc.

The settlers introduced European livestock, fruits, vegetables, cattle, horses and ranching into the California region ; however, the Spanish occupation of California also brought with it serious negative consequences to the Native American populations with whom the missionaries came in contact.

Since 1998, there have also been restrictions on contact between civil servants and lobbyists ; this followed an incident known as " Lobbygate ", where an undercover reporter for The Observer, posing as a business leader, was introduced by a lobbyist to a senior Downing Street official who promised privileged access to government ministers.

To prevent further uprisings he introduced countrywide policing on a local basis, appointing Lords Lieutenants who were in close contact with the central authority.

Few photofinishers made enlargements at the time the film was introduced, and most 127 negatives were contact printed.

Red chili, a New World vegetable not found in Korea before European contact with the Americas, was introduced to Korea from Japan after the Japanese invasions ( 1592 – 1598 ) and became a staple ingredient in kimchi.

It seems to have been introduced to America during the immigration across the Bering Land Bridge, and despite the later introduction of the bow, atlatl use was widespread at the time of first European contact.

But as they came into contact with other people, and Mexico became a more unified state, their economy shifted towards a more dependent one, thriving on increased trade with other local people and eventually were introduced with international trade.

In his 1873 paper A Method of Geometrical Representation of the Thermodynamic Properties of Substances by Means of Surfaces, Gibbs introduced the preliminary outline of the principles of his new equation able to predict or estimate the tendencies of various natural processes to ensue when bodies or systems are brought into contact.

In 1873, Willard Gibbs published A Method of Geometrical Representation of the Thermodynamic Properties of Substances by Means of Surfaces, in which he introduced the preliminary outline of the principles of his new equation able to predict or estimate the tendencies of various natural processes to ensue when bodies or systems are brought into contact.

:* infectious diseases to which they had no immunity, such as smallpox, introduced by European contact ;

The fundamental difference between Luther and Melanchthon lies not so much in the latter's ethical conception, as in his humanistic mode of thought which formed the basis of his theology and made him ready not only to acknowledge moral and religious truths outside of Christianity, but also to bring Christian truth into closer contact with them, and thus to mediate between Christian revelation and ancient philosophy.

Denmark-Norway nonetheless claimed the territory, and, after centuries of no contact between the Norse Greenlanders and their Scandinavian brethren, it was feared that the Greenlanders had lapsed back into paganism ; so a missionary expedition was sent out to reinstate Christianity in 1721.

The arrival of Christianity around the year 1000 brought Norway into contact with European medieval learning, hagiography and history writing.

Swedes had contact with Christianity from their early travels.

Additionally, James Clifford notes that Griaule sought informants best qualified to speak of traditional lore, and deeply mistrusted converts to Christianity, Islam, or people with too much contact with whites.

Her uncle was against any contact with them because he did not want her to convert to Christianity.

During a journey to his country estates he was converted to Christianity partly through coming in contact with a case of miraculous healing and partly through the teaching and influence of Eusebius, bishop of Kenneschrin, and Acacius, bishop of Aleppo.

The evangelical Christianity of Scotland was influenced the Haldane brothers, and it is known that at least later Oncken made contact with them.

During the years immediately preceding his death he did not slacken his work, but continued his work of writing, preaching, lecturing, making addresses, coming into contact with men, influencing them, and by doing so widening the influence of Christianity.

Verwer's first contact with Christianity was through his neighbor, Dorothea Clapp, who gave him the Gospel of John and also put him on her " Holy Ghost hit list ".

He came in contact with a pracharak who visited a few families in the village which had been converted to Christianity and attacked the old Munda order.

The early conquests of the Muslims brought them into close contact with centers of civilization heavily influenced by Christianity and also by Greek culture.

Despite occasional contacts in an earlier stage, the West only became well-aware of the existence of the Beta Israel community when they came in contact through the Protestant missionaries of the " London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews " which specialized in the conversion of Jews.

His loss of contact with Christianity and his life among Muslims ( and apparent lapse from Christianity and conversion to Islam ) bothered him and he mentions this several times in his account.

After the edict banning Christianity, there were communities that kept practicing Catholicism without having any contact with the Church until missionaries were able to return much later.

This treatment is more severe in cases where North Korean refugees have come into contact with non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) that are associated with South Korea or with religions, especially Christianity.

There is also evidence to suggest that he had contact with Johan Kemper a Kabbalist and Jewish convert to Christianity who also worked at the University of Uppsala.

His travels brought him into contact not only with Catholic groups throughout the world, but also with groups of Protestants from Pentecostal, mainline, and evangelical streams of Christianity.

He came into contact with Christianity when he went to Tokyo to study at Shubunkan and the preparatory school run by James Hamilton Ballagh.

Comparing the situation in the Old World and New World: in Spain's wars against the Moors, the clerics claimed that Muslims had knowledge of Christ and rejected Him, so that waging a Crusade against them was legitimate ; in contrast, in Spain's wars against the Indigenous peoples of the Americas and Native Americans, wars against those who had never come into contact with Christianity were illegitimate.

Because of the establishment of Christianity, there have been bans enforced by the church on tobacco smoking ( a ban that actually brings a return to pre-Western contact ) as well as drinking of i sika or kava, all of which was grown locally.