Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This orientation of the axes has had a huge effect on human history," he said. "The result is that crops and livestock domesticated in one part of Eurasia quickly spread to the rest of that continent...
...contrast is even more striking in Africa, Diamond said. In the fertile crescent, in the area of the Persian Gulf, cultivation was always easy and fruitful. In the warmer climates in the rest of Africa, such agriculture was impossible, thus preventing the spread of culture and people since those who were successful in agriculture stayed put for the most part...
...talked about changing it, but we likethat it's focused she said. "It would be hard toget this audience if it were spread out over amonth or even week...
...Greenfield, a psychology professor at UCLA, has studied the relationship between video games and intelligence and finds a positive correlation. Her research attributes an increase in worldwide "nonverbal IQ" (spatial skills, the use of icons for problem solving and the ability to understand things from multiple viewpoints) to the spread of video games...
...fault, but it goes a long way toward fixing the imbalance in Americans' views of their own past art--a bias summarized in the silly idea that American modernism was creeping around in larval form until after World War II, when Pollock, de Kooning et al. spread their redeeming wings...