When they lost control of Assyria itself, the name Syria survived and was applied only to the land of Aramea to the west, that had once been part of the Assyrian empire.

When the Babylonian Empire empire was absorbed into the Persian Achaemenid Empire, the name " Chaldean " lost its meaning as the name of a race of men, and came to be applied only to a social class.

When the governing of the Empire became too cumbersome for a single Emperor, the empire was divided by the emperor Diocletian into the Western and Eastern empires.

When the Romans and written history arrived in 57 BC, the country was sparsely populated by various tribal groups at the periphery of the empire.

When Babylon fell to the Persian Cyrus the Great in 539 BCE, Judah ( or Yehud medinata, the " province of Yehud ") became an administrative division within the Persian empire.

When war with France broke out again in 1202, John achieved early victories, but shortages of military resources and his treatment of Norman, Breton and Anjou nobles resulted in the collapse of his empire in northern France in 1204.

When Assyria grew into an empire, it was divided into smaller parts, called provinces.

When Orhan succeeded his father, he proposed to his brother, Alaeddin, that they should share the emerging empire.

When they returned to West Germany, they began what they called an " anti-imperialistic struggle ", with bank robberies to raise money and bomb attacks against U. S. military facilities, German police stations, and buildings belonging to the Axel Springer press empire.

Indeed, such was the perceived threat of the Ottoman Empire under the reign of Suleiman that ambassador Busbecq warned of Europe's imminent conquest: " On Turks ' side are the resources of a mighty empire, strength unimpaired, habituation to victory, endurance of toil, unity, discipline, frugality and watchfulness ... Can we doubt what the result will be ?... When the Turks have settled with Persia, they will fly at our throats supported by the might of the whole East ; how unprepared we are I dare not say.

When the Great Cataclysm struck, the Atlantean empire fell and thanks to the machines, the Savage Land locations were spared from sinking into the sea.

When Scrooge established Duckburg, Calisota, United States as his homebase he started journeying the world trying to expand his financial empire.

When he established his base in Duckburg, Calisota, United States he left Matilda and Hortense to run his empire from 1902 to 1930.

When the Partition Treaty became known in 1698, the Spanish vehemently objected to the planned dismemberment of their empire ; although Charles II agreed to name the Bavarian Prince his heir, he assigned to him the whole Spanish Empire rather than merely the parts England and France had chosen.

When this empire collapsed in 1918 after the end of World War I, Austria was reduced to the main German speaking areas of the empire and adopted the name German Austria, wanting to join the new German Weimar Republic.

When asked by a reporter whether he still thought the Soviet Union was an " evil empire ," Reagan responded that he no longer did, and that when he used the term it was a " different era "; that is, the period before Gorbachev's perestroika and glasnost reforms.

When the summer of 270 ended, things were looking very different in the empire than they did a year ago.

When Cyrus awoke from the dream, he inferred it as a great danger to the future security of the empire, as it meant that Darius would one day rule the whole world.

When his father, Louis I ( called the pious ), partitioned the empire toward the end of his reign in 843, he was made King of East Francia, a region that spanned the Elbe drainage basin from Jutland southeasterly through the Thuringerwald into modern Bavaria from the Treaty of Verdun in 843 until his death.

When the Spanish invaded the Aztec empire in what is now Mexico, they were quick to exploit the color for new trade opportunities.

When the empire of Charlemagne was divided under the Treaty of Verdun of 843 the town became part of the Holy Roman Empire.

When used about ethnic groups the term " Aztec " refers to several Nahuatl speaking peoples of central Mexico in the postclassic period of Mesoamerican chronology, especially the ethnic group that had a leading role in establishing the hegemonic empire based at Tenochtitlan, the Mexica.

When the empire collapsed and divided into independent states after World War I, he was awarded Czechoslovakian citizenship by President Masaryk.

When Louis the Pious finally died in 840, Lothar claimed the entire empire irrespective of the partitions.

When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

When this second dilemma first became obvious -- during the mid to late '50's -- the United States appeared to have three choices.

When Alexander Brandel rose to speak, the hall became silent.

When the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company reached its 125th year as a going industrial concern during 1958, it became an almost unique institution in the mechanical world.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

When it became obvious that he could stay inside no longer, taking a thousand to one chance Gonzales rushed outside, square against the muzzle of a Winchester.

When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??

When cattle became more valuable, ranch owners frowned upon this practice and it was discontinued, at least when the boss was 'round.

`` When they became members of the city police narcotics unit '', Sokol said, `` they were told they would have to get to know certain areas of Chicago in which narcotics were sold and they would have to get to know people in the narcotics racket.

When he attended the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade school here about six months ago, Jim became convinced that an individual can do something constructive in the ideological battle and set out to do it.

When Austria became a member of the European Union, the Austrian variety of the German language — limited to 23 agricultural terms — was " protected " in Protocol No 10, regarding the use of specific Austrian terms of the German language in the framework of the European Union, which forms part of the Austrian EU accession treaty.

When telescopes became commonplace, setting circles sped measurements

When she became her godly form " Her hair's ambrosia breathed a holy fragrance.

When he became ill, the Alemanni claimed to have put a hex on him ( 78. 15. 2 ).

When Troy was sacked by the Greeks, Aeneas, after being commanded by the gods to flee, gathered a group, collectively known as the Aeneads, who then traveled to Italy and became progenitors of Romans.

When the Greeks left without killing Ajax, despite their sacrifices Athena became so angry that she persuaded Zeus to send a storm that sank many of their ships.

When Yolande's pregnancy ended, probabably with a miscarriage, Alexander's granddaughter Margaret became the heir.

When Alexander became emperor, he was young, amiable, well-meaning, and entirely under the dominion of his mother.

When it became apparent that Johnson would lose his seat, an effort began by ally George W. Jones to put forward Johnson's name for governor.

When Kolmogorov became aware of Solomonoff's work, he acknowledged Solomonoff's priority.

When the Roman infantry became entangled in combat with his army, the hidden ambush force attacked the legionnaires in the rear.

When Angelo Cardinal Roncalli was elected and became Pope John, there was some confusion as to whether he would be John XXIII or John XXIV ; he then declared that he was John XXIII to put this question to rest.

When Thomas became Chairman of the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ( EEOC ) in 1982, Hill went along to serve as his assistant, leaving the job in 1983.

When the merger took place, all ten AFL franchises became part of the merged league's new American Football Conference ( AFC ), with three teams from the original 16-team NFL ( the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns, and Baltimore Colts ) joining them.

When that party dissolved, he became a member of the Know-Nothing party.