Word: spread
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...begins at about the sixth century A. D., and at the time of Mohammed and the Koran. Previous to this time it had been confined in the Arabian peninsula and had there assumed a fixed form so that it was not greatly affected, when during the seventh century Mohammedanism spread over more than half of the civilized world. In most of the countries into which the Arabic language then made its way, it is still the national tongue...
...name, Aramaic, said Professor Moore, is given by modern scholars to one great branch of the Semitic languages. The earlier seats of Aramaic are unknown. It is first recognized in the country stretching north from the Euphrates to the mountains of Armenia. It is probable that Aramaic did not spread westward until...
Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the Assyrian empire in its western provinces. At the fall of the Assyrian empire it overspread Asia, except Arabia, and supplanted the Semitic languages. The reason it spread is unknown; but the conquest was almost as complete as was that of Arabic later at the time of the Moslem conquest...
...architecture which originated in Italy with the Lombards, said Mr. Cummings, and spread during the Dark Ages, and afterwards, over Europe, is neither the Asiatic, Byzantine, nor Roman; but combines features of them all. It is a style which lies between the Roman and the Gothic. Until 1820 it was variously termed; but that year a French architect named it Romanesque...
...name of Esop's fables; but Esop, like Homer, is an unknown person. The first known collections of Greek fables was made about 300 B. C., by a certain Demetrius. Upon his version succeeding collections were made, with additions of tales from the East. From Greece the fables spread to Rome and thence over Europe, until in the Middle Ages several collections of tales were made in England and France, notably by Romulus Imperator and Marie de France...