7 sentences with “prevalence”

The plague also marked the beginning of a cultural change brought about by the prevalence of death in the 14th century.

One product of the division between men and women was the prevalence of bisexuality among elite Greek men (and, as Sappho's work suggests, apparently among women as well).

Building on the prevalence of male relationships was the Greek tradition of male homosexual warfare, homosexual liaisons between soldiers that helped them to be more effective combatants.

While the torture campaign was kept out of the press, rumours of its prevalence soon spread to mainland France, inspiring a huge debate about the necessity and value of holding on to Algeria.

Land ownership was by far the main determinant of wealth, and with the prevalence of slavery, economies of scale dictated that the more land a given family controlled, the more wealth it could generate.

Here, scholars note the incredible prevalence of corruption at all levels of Soviet society: the huge black market and nepotism and the infighting present in everything from getting a job to getting a flat in a major city.

Nineteenth-century scientific advances also lent themselves directly to European power, most obviously in the sense that modern medicine enabled European soldiers and administrators to survive in regions such as sub-Saharan Africa that had been death traps for them in the past due to the prevalence of tropical diseases.