The Black Death is thought to have originated in China and spread to Europe through trade.
Morgan and spread to Europe and around the world during the Great War.
This trend, which began in America and then spread to Europe and Japan, is now visible in the Asian tigers.
Coffee spread to Europe by two routes - from the Ottoman Empire, and by sea from the original coffee port of Mocha.
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However, far from being a single species, it has split into six lines, one of which colonised India and the Middle East, and then spread to Europe at the dawn of agriculture about 10, 000 years ago.
The problem with this form of creative financing is that it has spread to Europe and it's making many uncomfortable, to the point that some leagues, like the English Premier League and Ligue 1 in France, have outlawed it.
But the idea has also spread to eastern Europe and Asia and may even be reaching the bankruptcy-averse Muslim world (last year ten Middle Eastern and north African countries signed a joint declaration on planned reforms).
Since the virus emerged last week, it has also spread to Canada, Europe, Israel, and New Zealand.
What is already happening in Japan, Shigeta sees, will move to Europe and then spread to the U.S. in a few years, leading to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of mobile Net units.
Hook said he expects that the mobile recording requirement will spread across Europe and to the United States soon.
Medieval Italian merchants developed commercial and financial techniques, such as bookkeeping and bills of exchange, that spread north and west to Europe's emerging maritime and Protestant powers, notably Holland and England.
From there the crisis could spread to the United States, Europe and the rest of the world, as banks fail, credit disappears, stockmarkets crash and economies collapse.
Language, it appears, remains a persistent barrier to international marriage in Europe and the spread of English as a second language does not seem to have changed that.
Officially the majority of the metal went to Spain and then spread across Europe.
For Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, the crisis in Europe will likely spread to emerging nations.
The next chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, says he fears anti-semitism may spread to Britain from the rest of Europe.
One of Nato's chief tasks is to help spread stability outwards across Europe.
This causes insecurity, the spread of HIV and eventually emigration to Europe.
Good news started in Europe and spread over to the Atlantic.
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The euro zone debt crisis produced two years of fears that it would result in financial collapse and a severe recession in Europe that would spread to the rest of the world.
The ongoing US government investigation alleges that the scheme began in Europe and later spread to the US, where at one stage more than 190 computers belonging to America's Nasa space agency were infected.
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According to the ambitious expectations of French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, who ordered the prohibition of the designation from all official documents, and French feminists supporting it, the initiative should spread first across Europe and then to the rest of the world.
But another way it can get around the apparently growing demand for stolen client data in Europe is to spread its wealth management operations farther eastward, where surplus-wielding governments are not as desperate to rake in tax revenue by targeting tax evaders.
Trade policy is a key instrument to ensure the spread of green technology to developing countries while also promoting growth and jobs in Europe.
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David Hedley Jones, the company's business development director, belongs to a European Union-China group on copyright infringement, trying to slow the spread of contraband cubes in Europe.
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Beyond the macroeconomic fall-out from war, there is one other big concern: that diplomatic tensions between America and Europe over Iraq could spread beyond war to trade.
Eastern Europe today is testimony to the spread of democracy.
"The fear in the markets is that the problem will spread to bigger economies such as Spain and Italy, Europe would not have the resources to handle a crisis of that magnitude, " said Sung Won Sohn, economics professor at California State University.
Dieback was first recorded in eastern Europe in 1992 and spread over two decades to infect most of the continent.
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