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The popular rhythms are a unique mixture of Spanish and African influences, though the instruments traditionally used have antecedents going back further than the Spanish colonial and African slave imports.
Though their antecedents are still shadowy, they were much influenced by the Olmec.
Neither Ranke nor Gibbon invented the citational or literary footnote; Grafton slogs back through time in search of antecedents.
Yersinia pestis and Borrelia burgdorferi and the archaea, its antecedents or catalytic mechanism have not been understood.
Although most loanwords differ in form somewhat from their Hindi antecedents, the changes are largely minor orthographic ones, as the substitution of ch, gh , and sh for an original c, g , or s , etc.