Throughout European history, philosophers such as Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, among others, contemplated the possibility that souls exist in animals, plants, and people ; however, the currently accepted definition of animism was only developed in the 19th century by Sir Edward Tylor, who created it as " one of anthropology's earliest concepts, if not the first ".

Throughout the 17th through 19th centuries, boxing bouts were motivated by money, as the fighters competed for prize money, promoters controlled the gate, and spectators bet on the result.

Throughout the 19th century and early 20th century, the area adjoining today's Battery Park City was known as the Greek quarter ; a long-standing reminder of the ethnic past was the former St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Throughout the 19th century, the Great Powers shared different aims over the " Eastern Question " and the integrity of the Ottoman Empire.

Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, each party held the presidency for roughly equal periods of time.

Omniglot goes so far as to assert " Corsican first appeared in writing towards the end of the 19th century ...." Throughout the 19th and 18th century there was a steady stream of writers in Corsican, many of whom wrote also in other languages.

Throughout the 19th century, these anti-Napoleonic Freikorps were greatly praised and glorified by German nationalists, and a heroic myth built up around their exploits.

Throughout the 19th century there were frequent meetings under the Tree, including both General Assemblies and other political events.

Throughout the 19th century in France, the main line dividing left and right was between supporters of the French Republic and those of the Monarchy.

Throughout industrialization in the late 19th century about 10 percent of the Masurian populace emigrated to the Ruhr Area, where about 180, 000 Masurians lived in 1914.

Throughout the 18th century the Royal Navy gradually gained ascendancy over the French Navy, with victories in the War of Spanish Succession ( 1701 – 1714 ), inconclusive battles in the War of Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ), victories in the Seven Years ' War ( 1754 – 1763 ), a partial reversal during the American War of Independence ( 1775 – 1783 ), and consolidation into uncontested supremacy during the 19th century from the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

Throughout the 19th century, governments led from the Lords had often suffered difficulties governing alongside ministers sat in the Commons.

Throughout the 19th century, South Georgia was a sealers ' base as well as a whalers ' base beginning in the 20th century, until whaling ended in the 1960s.

Throughout the 19th century the Regular U. S. Army was small, and the state militias provided the majority of the troops during the Mexican-American War, the start of the American Civil War, and the Spanish-American War.

Throughout the height of barbed wire sales in the late 19th century, Washburn, Ellwood, Gates, and Haish competed with one another, but Ellwood and Gates eventually joined forces again to create the American Steel and Wire Company, later acquired by The U. S. Steel Corporation.

Throughout the 19th century, Philadelphia had a variety of industries and businesses, the largest being textiles.

Throughout the first quarter of the 19th century, the United States Navy repeatedly engaged pirates in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and in the Mediterranean.

Throughout the 19th century, the port city of Galveston grew rapidly and the Strand was considered the region's primary business center.

Throughout the 19th century, the main line dividing Left and Right in France was between supporters of the Republic and supporters of the Monarchy.

Throughout the 19th century, the concertina was a popular instrument.

Throughout the 19th century, the country's climate continued to grow worse, resulting in mass emigration to the New World, particularly Manitoba in Canada.

Throughout the Mexican national history of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Guadalupan name and image have been unifying national symbols ; the first President of Mexico ( 1824 – 29 ) changed his name from José Miguel Ramón Adaucto Fernández y Félix to Guadalupe Victoria in honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Throughout the 19th century, it was only in the tradition of all-male cathedral choirs that the countertenor voice had survived.

Throughout the 19th century, a modest economic growth took place.

Throughout part of the 20th century, some Canadian newspapers adopted American spellings ; for example, color as opposed to the British-based colour.

Throughout the 20th century a minority of prominent scholars, such as John A. T. Robinson, have argued that John is as historically reliable as the synoptics.

Throughout the 20th century, Honduras's agriculture has been dominated first by bananas and then to a lesser extent by coffee and sugar.

Throughout the 20th century, PRI had an almost hegemonic power at the state and federal level, which slowly began to recede in the late 1980s.

Throughout the 20th century, rhetoric developed as a concentrated field of study with the establishment of rhetorical courses in high schools and universities.

Throughout the 20th century this procedure produced elemental sulfur that required no further purification.

Throughout the 20th century, there were numerous riots directed against tribal chiefs.

Throughout the 20th century, beginning with H. A.

Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries there have been a number of re-enactments of the trek with participants wearing period garments and traveling by wagon.

Throughout the 20th century in addition to becoming a major London tourist attraction, the palace housed 50 grace and favour residences given to esteemed servants and subjects of the crown.

Throughout the 20th century the discipline expanded and the current scope of the discipline is much broader.

Throughout the 20th century the discipline expanded and the current scope of the discipline is much broader.

Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century, with the advent of Modern and Postmodern art forms, distinctions between what is generally regarded as the fine arts and the low arts have started to fade, as contemporary high art continues to challenge these concepts by mixing with popular culture.

Throughout the 20th century, the city experienced steady growth, but was eclipsed as the regional economic center by a fast growing Huntsville during the space race.

Throughout most of the 20th century, Shepherdsville was primarily an agricultural area.

Throughout the late-19th and early 20th centuries, the Camp Springs area did not experience significant growth.

Throughout the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, Freetown served as a very industrious area.

Throughout the 20th century ( and with the invention of the automobile ), Westford progressively grew, continuing to serve as residential housing for the industries of Lowell, and later, Boston.

Throughout the first half of the 20th century, most of the city was involved in the poultry industry, which led to the city being dubbed “ The Egg Basket of America .”

Throughout the 20th Century, Hattiesburg benefited from the founding of Camp Shelby ( now a military mobilization center ), two major hospitals, and two colleges, The University of Southern Mississippi and William Carey University.

Throughout rest of the 20th Century, the population has fluctuated between 160 and 320.