There are also many records of emperors who were addicted to playing cuju being criticized by officials and other members of the imperial family. |
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They were an expansionist, militaristic people who ruled their country through a line of emperors. |
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Chinese emperors used to issue a penitential decree taking the blame for misgovernment or natural calamities. |
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In 406 the army in Britain elevated the first in a rapid succession of three emperors. |
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He held the prestigious position of kapellmeister to the emperors Maximilian II and Rudolf II in Vienna and Prague from 1568 until his death. |
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Kings and the emperors adopted the new religion of equality, ahimsa, and compassion. |
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At one time, traditional societies greatly recognised people born to their positions as chiefs, kings or emperors. |
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The most mystical of shades, purple has been preferred by kings, queens and emperors throughout history. |
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From campfires of Mughal soldiers to the royal banquet tables of kings and emperors, the kebab has travelled a long way. |
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Whether forced or voluntary, Roman emperors, kings and queens, hereditary princes and grand dukes and, yes, even popes have abdicated. |
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He directed the call to arms not to kings and emperors, but to counts and barons and even to cities. |
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The Habsburg emperors had no consistent plan for reconstructing their government. |
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Till then the Wadiyars were the feudatories of the emperors of Vijayanagar. |
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There weren't any Roman emperors about to barter oysters weight by weight for gold, as they did in the ancient past. |
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The Antonine emperors are easily identified through their adoption of the portrait style of Hadrian with curly hair and beards. |
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For a century and a half, under three great emperors, the Qing Dynasty grew in wealth and territory. |
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Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters. |
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There have been great saints and mahatmas in the past, who replied thus even to emperors and monarchs. |
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This saurian symbol of Chinese emperors has been claimed, from the mid-1980s onward, as the common patrimony of all Chinese people. |
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A favorite hunting hawk of the emperors flew into the camp of Guru Hargobind who was also hunting. |
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The monarchs of Ayutthaya found it expedient to enter into a tributary relationship with the Chinese emperors. |
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The grand dukes became the tsars of Muscovy, who in turn became emperors of the Russian Empire. |
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Although the rulers of the empire were formally called emperors, they were still popularly referred to as tsars or tsarinas. |
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This should not be too surprising as emperors and monarchs had been famous in history for their love of flowers and gardens. |
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In the Roman imperial period, even emperors practised the arts of painting and sculpture. |
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While barbarian invaders overran the Western empire, the Byzantine emperors always hoped to defeat them and reunite the empire. |
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The Forbidden City was the palace of Ming and Qing emperors and off-limits to ordinary Chinese citizens for 500 years. |
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The most mystical of shades, purple, has been preferred by kings, queens and emperors throughout history. |
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From the 11 th Century, the images of the empresses and the mothers of emperors were placed beside that of the emperors. |
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Kings, queens, and emperors were slow to learn the lesson that money is for using, not hoarding. |
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Moreover, the cities he founded did not display statues of emperors, nor of gods in the Greco-Roman pantheon. |
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A good road system also made it easier for the emperors to control their empire as messages and orders could be sent quickly. |
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Additional fish caught on the day included 5 spotted emperors about 14 lb in weight, 2 pompano at 5 lb and 3 queen fish at 7 lb. |
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Suetonius, writing about the Julio-Claudian and Flavian emperors under a new dynasty, saw no reason to treat them as heroes. |
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It is characteristic that between 1025 and 1081, the empire had twelve emperors but only five patriarchs. |
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The Qing collections were among the finest ever assembled, fitting the scale of the empire over which the emperors ruled. |
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This, one of the two main imperial palaces in the city from the 5th century onward, eventually became the only court of the Byzantine emperors. |
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However, the outcome of the wars brought in a vigorous new administration in the persons of the Flavian emperors. |
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In ancient Rome, emperors would divine truth by reading the entrails of animals or vanquished foes. |
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All I can say is that where emperors fear to tread, ordinary mortals must hesitate. |
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Later emperors carried it further and in the second century AD empresses such as Sabina were depicted as embodying, for example, pietas. |
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Historically, Bad Gastein is the spa town of Austria with emperors and other VIPs taking in treatment. |
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And he sat down at his desk and looked at the heads of the Roman emperors that were graved on his sleeve links. |
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During the Tang Dynasty, people regarded plumpness as beautiful because emperors liked plump beauties. |
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When the emperors soldiers came to reclaim the hawk, a brief skirmish ensued and the hawk was not returned. |
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Its rulers called themselves Roman emperors and its subjects were Roman citizens subject to Roman law. |
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Many of these are inscribed with the sayings of ancient emperors, famous poets and scholars. |
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His skills as a rainmaker and the effectiveness of his amulets in protecting the emperors assured his livelihood in the capital. |
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To prevent further adventuring, these emperors made it a capital offense to build a boat with more than two masts. |
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Perhaps the most important of the anthropomorphic Shinto deities is the sun goddess Amaterasu, the patroness and ancestor of the Japanese emperors. |
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This was an advancement aided substantially by the often sizeable retirement bonus with which nervous emperors made further attempts to keep the military caste onside. |
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These passages could be seen in the socio-political sweep of their emperors, Caesars, and pharaons as case studies in forced labor and territorial control. |
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Attention is placed on the activities of the emperors as individuals whose actions and decisions could affect every aspect of the lives of ordinary Byzantines. |
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New emperors traditionally gave donatives to troops and citizens. |
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The full range of vices attributed to decadent Roman emperors was to be found in the private dachas and public buildings of 1930s and 1940s Russia. |
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The idea of absolute state sovereignty is relatively new, and it derives from agreements among kings, emperors, kaisers, and czars for their mutual benefit. |
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He's been the jeweler to kings, emperors, and even Hollywood royalty. |
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The art that the three emperors used to assert their power was based on an outstanding degree of craftsmanship directed to the service of the state. |
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The exterior was decorated at the top with glistening gilded bronze shields, and the arches were filled with painted statues of emperors and gods. |
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An ample reference section at the end of the book contains lists of rulers including emperors, ecclesiastics, caliphs, khans, and kings of Serbia. |
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That's why, for much of history, furs and skins from the more aggressive carnivores have been an essential part of the ceremonial dress of kings, emperors and dictators. |
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He showed that similar horoscopes in the Magian or Chaldaean system had been described in ancient times for Roman emperors such as Augustus, Tiberius, and Hadrian. |
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The legalism was too tough and the first empire that tried it, the Qin empire, which gave China its name lasted only two emperors, then got kicked out. |
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The Mahaboddhi Temple was originally a shrine built in the third century BC by Asoka, one of India's earliest and most reverentially remembered emperors. |
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Iraq, situated in the Fertile Crescent of the ancient Babylonian emperors, was a country, populous and wealthy, but torn by ethnic and religious divisions. |
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Whether they were to serve the purposes of missionaries, monks, or emperors these manuscripts were mostly produced in the scriptoria or cloisters of abbeys and monasteries. |
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His enigmatic assemblages glimmer with glitter, buttons, beads, marbles and plastic toys, bearing what appear to be images of mythic emperors and omniscient eyes. |
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This right was bestowed on us by emperors, rajas and nawabs. |
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Under the principate emperors never indulged in such monomachy. |
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The first of the Mughal emperors, Babur, in spite of his keen aesthetic sense, did not have the time to embark upon a concerted program of building. |
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Jesus is not a distant, indifferent ruler who erects barriers between himself and his people, as great kings and emperors have done throughout history. |
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This was a tactic regularly used by early Qing emperors in matters which were particularly delicate or confidential. |
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Era names were used for over two millennia by Chinese emperors and are still used in North Korea, Japan and Taiwan. |
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Its capital was Pataliputra, but later emperors, such as Bhagabhadra, also held court at Besnagar, modern Vidisha in Eastern Malwa. |
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In the Qing dynasty, the Kangxi and Qianlong emperors made twelve trips to the south, on all occasions but one reaching Hangzhou. |
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Attracting the attention of the First Emperor, It is often said that succeeding emperors followed the template set by Han Fei. |
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Chinese rulers believed that wise emperors governed their officials rather than their subjects. |
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Although Confucianism was promoted by the new emperors, the government continued to be run by Legalists. |
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Many clans of the Li family trace their descent to Laozi, including the emperors of the Tang dynasty. |
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Several Song emperors, most notably Huizong, were active in promoting Taoism, collecting Taoist texts and publishing editions of the Daozang. |
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Tombs of the emperors are spread throughout India, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. |
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Venutius staged another rebellion in 69, taking advantage of Roman instability in the Year of four emperors. |
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These busts of the emperors and empresses are all very scarce, and some of them almost singular in their kind. |
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Yet Sufis continued their opposition to landlordism, emperors, gender inequality, and other oppressions. |
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It is a diadem fit for a King among kings, an Emperor among emperors. |
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At Penguin Encounter, you meet 9 of the world's 17 penguin species-from small rockhoppers to the hefty emperors. |
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The last emperors of China, the Manchus made their slaves wear pigtails so they could be spotted quickly. |
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He was also a patron of the Varangian Guard of the Byzantine emperors, who protected his relics in Bari. |
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Their banks even loaned to the emperors and kings, eventually going bankrupt when their clients defaulted. |
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During the fourth and fifth centuries AD Roman emperors did their best to stave off the advance of the Germanic tribes. |
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The population of the imperial capital fluctuated between 300,000 and 400,000 as the emperors undertook measures to restrain its growth. |
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He and later emperors thought of themselves as part of a continuous line of emperors that begins with Charlemagne. |
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These were a collection of books by those who were antithetical to the emperors. |
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Tacitus wrote a narrative for his fellow senators and fitted each of the emperors into a simple mold of his choosing. |
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The general political and economic situation deteriorated as the emperors assumed more direct control of all aspects of political life. |
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Domna's older sister was Julia Maesa, later grandmother to the future emperors Elagabalus and Alexander Severus. |
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The powerful prefect was executed while he was trying to defend his case in front of the two emperors. |
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Constantine was sent east, where he rose through the ranks to become a military tribune under the emperors Diocletian and Galerius. |
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Ten emperors, including the last emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, carried the name. |
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Further widespread persecutions of the Church occurred under nine subsequent Roman emperors, most intensely under Decius and Diocletian. |
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From then on, the Empire existed in constant tension between the need for two emperors and their mutual mistrust. |
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Expansions were infrequent, as the emperors, adopting a strategy of fixed lines of defense, had determined to maintain existing borders. |
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On that basis, the two emperors began peace negotiations at the town of Tilsit after meeting on an iconic raft on the River Niemen. |
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When the line of western emperors ceased, many of the kings who replaced them were from the same background. |
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Commerce revived and the emperors oversaw the extension of a uniform administration to all the provinces. |
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It also had the permanent consequence of empowering German princes at the expense of the German emperors. |
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The societas declined into obscurity in the time of the emperors, as most of their services were taken over by direct agents of the state. |
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Scandinavian bodyguards of the Byzantine emperors were known as the Varangian Guard. |
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The prosperity brought by Nerva and Trajan continued in the reigns of subsequent emperors, from Hadrian to Marcus Aurelius. |
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The Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government. |
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These men rose to prominence through military ranks, and became emperors through civil wars. |
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The population and the frontiers were abandoned, since the emperors were mostly concerned with defeating rivals and establishing their power. |
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The Empire was divided among four emperors, two in the West and two in the East. |
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Diocletian did not use a disguised form of Republic, as the other emperors since Augustus had done. |
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In the Roman Empire, emperors were deified, and the formalized imperial cult became increasingly prominent. |
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Bologna's special claim to Alma Mater Studiorum independent of kings, emperors or any kind of direct religious authority. |
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In 1570, it was documented as still containing nine statues of Roman emperors in architectural niches. |
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Castrorum Filius was one of names used by the emperor Caligula and then also by other emperors. |
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During the reign of the early emperors of Rome there was a golden age of historical literature. |
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Throughout Chinese history, many emperors and one empress wielded absolute power through the Mandate of Heaven. |
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Julian does not appear to have reinstated the persecutions of the earlier Roman emperors. |
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For various reasons, the 1st century BC was a time of political and military upheaval, which ultimately led to rule by emperors. |
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A successful career required competence as an administrator and remaining in favour with the emperor, or over time perhaps multiple emperors. |
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Most emperors indicated their choice of successor, usually a close family member or adopted heir. |
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To secure their loyalty, several emperors paid the donativum, a monetary reward. |
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The reigns of Japanese emperors and empresses were not considered to also be the same as the era name until the Meiji era. |
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The example of the Roman emperors influenced the political objective of the Crown, while the nobles benefited from feudalism. |
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The Franks are first mentioned in the Augustan History, a collection of biographies of the Roman emperors. |
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Construction projects bore inscriptions praising Vespasian and condemning previous emperors. |
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Alsace experienced great prosperity during the 12th and 13th centuries under Hohenstaufen emperors. |
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Since ancient Roman times, famous emperors and their retinue travelled on and along the Danube and used the river for travel and transportation. |
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Once crowned in Frankfurt, the emperors ruled from Vienna and also held in Regensburg the Perpetual Diet of Regensburg. |
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One of the two consular positions was often occupied by emperors themselves and eventually became reserved solely for the Emperor. |
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In the cathedral, beneath the high altar, are the tombs of eight Holy Roman emperors and German kings. |
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The two emperors returned to Aquileia for the winter, but on the way, in January 169, Lucius Verus died. |
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Alexander was the last of the Syrian emperors and the first emperor to be overthrown by military discontent on a wide scale. |
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Alexander's death at the hands of his troops can also be seen as the heralding of a new role for Roman emperors. |
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Ambrose disliked Pagans, under Ambrose's major influence, emperors Gratian, Valentinian II and Theodosius I carried on a persecution of Paganism. |
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To spare the provincial populations from excessive taxation and to save money, emperors began to employ units recruited from Germanic tribes. |
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He was at once national king of the Goths, and successor, though without any imperial titles, of the West Roman emperors. |
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During the 5th century the emperors form the 430s mostly resided in the capital, Rome. |
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The capital was Trier which was often used as the northern capital of the Roman Empire by many emperors. |
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Tacitus opposed the emperors and believed that they were one of the reasons for the decline of Rome. |
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Tacitus even wrote disparagingly of Augustus the most celebrated and beloved of the emperors. |
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Suetonius's purpose was not a historical recount of events, though, but rather an evaluation of the emperors themselves. |
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His goal was the evaluation of the emperors, portraying the events and actions of the person while they were in office. |
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Similarly, most Roman emperors maintained an admiration for things Greek in nature. |
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This dynasty included some of the most able emperors in Byzantium's history, and the period is one of revival and resurgence. |
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Basil II is considered among the most capable Byzantine emperors and his reign as the apex of the empire in the Middle Ages. |
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Over the next two centuries, thirteen emperors in total were laid to rest in the Ming Dynasty Tombs. |
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Zheng He lived through the reigns of five Ming emperors, but he directly served three emperors in his life. |
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The reigns of the later Yuan emperors were short and marked by intrigues and rivalries. |
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The Tang emperors also had Xianbei maternal ancestry, from Emperor Gaozu of Tang's Xianbei mother, Duchess Dugu. |
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The Chinese emperors made sure that the gifts they paid to other states were known as mere gifts, not tributes. |
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The 11th century saw a reaction against the control of the German emperors. |
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They have varied over time since the Song dynasty, with some being named or demoted by emperors. |
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Reflecting Moscow's new imperial claims, Ivan's coronation as Tsar was a ritual modeled after those of the Byzantine emperors. |
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Even the mausoleums of Qing emperors were still allowed to be managed by Manchu guardsmen like it was in the past. |
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Although the Qing emperors emphasized the importance of the Manchu language again and again, the tide could not be turned. |
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It clung to its intellectual prestige for much longer, with sporadic revivals under Hellenophile emperors of Rome. |
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Kings and emperors, unsurprisingly, did not subscribe to this hierocratic view. |
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Bengal was described as the Paradise of Nations by Mughal emperors. |
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In 1719 alone, four emperors successively ascended the throne. |
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Military expediency trumped aristocratic privilege when it came to securing the Empire and a series of professional military emperors followed as a result. |
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A central figure in Chinese culture, Laozi is claimed by both the emperors of the Tang dynasty and modern people of the Li surname as a founder of their lineage. |
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They did not imitate the image policy of the Constantinople emperors but that of the Habsburgians, saying that they were the equals of the Habsburgs. |
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In the past, emperors based their right to rule mostly on heredity and so could listen to remonstrance from below without necessarily feeling that legitimacy was at stake. |
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Many Mongols of the upper class such as the Jalayir and the Oronar nobles as well as the emperors also patronized Confucian scholars and institutions. |
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The Ming Shilu, Ming veritable records containing sections about reigns of individual emperors, also provided much of the information relating to the treasure voyages. |
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After the voyages, subsequent Ming emperors would reject the Yongle Emperor's policy of bringing the maritime trade into the structure of the tributary system. |
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The south and the seas were given less and less attention from emperors and officials alike after the transfer of the capital from Nanjing to Beijing. |
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In addition to taking over the established bureaucratic structure from the Yuan period, the Ming emperors established the new post of the travelling military inspector. |
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The Ming emperors took over the provincial administration system of the Yuan dynasty, and the thirteen Ming provinces are the precursors of the modern provinces. |
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The Byzantine emperors appealed to the West for help, but the Pope would only consider sending aid in return for a reunion of the Eastern Orthodox Church with the See of Rome. |
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The Macedonian emperors also increased the Empire's wealth by fostering trade with Western Europe, particularly through the sale of silk and metalwork. |
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In recognition of the imperial position traditionally held by the Habsburgs, the emperors of Austria became the titular presidents of this parliament. |
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He focuses on the fulfillment of duties, criticizing those that did not live up to expectations, and praising bad emperors for times when they did fulfill their duties. |
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However, he is often criticized that he was more interested in the interesting stories about the emperors and not about the actual occurrences of their reigns. |
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They all resisted the efforts of noblemen and emperors to control them. |
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The Eastern Emperor Leo, who died in 474, had appointed the western emperors Anthemius and Julius Nepos, and Constantinople never recognized the new government. |
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Toward the later empire, the soldiers assassinated emperors who preferred diplomacy and put their own most popular officers into the vacant office. |
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Though they were not yet expected to personally fight in battle during Alexander's time, emperors were increasingly expected to display general competence in military affairs. |
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Of the three Flavian emperors, Domitian would rule the longest, despite the fact that his youth and early career were largely spent in the shadow of his older brother. |
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Cultural interactions patronized often by powerful emperors, such as Kanishka, led to development of art due to introduction of a rich variety of influences. |
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It was not until the reign of Diocletian that the empire was fully stabilized with the introduction of the Tetrarchy, which saw four emperors rule the empire at once. |
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First the coronations of emperors were moved from Aachen to Frankfurt. |
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Owing to Confucian notions of filial piety, Chinese and Japanese emperors were sometimes able to 'retire' but continue to exert great influence over state policy. |
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During the Han and Tang, emperors sometimes instated government monopolies in times of war, and abolished them later when the fiscal crisis had passed. |
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In the Empire, the biographies of famous men and early emperors flourished, examples being The Twelve Caesars of Suetonius, and Plutarch's Parallel Lives. |
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Upon the death of Severus, his sons Caracalla and Geta were made emperors. |
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Malta remained for 72 years subject of the emperors of Germany. |
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Although the Palaeologi emperors recaptured Constantinople from the Western Europeans in 1261, they were never able to regain control of much of the former imperial lands. |
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Civil war between rival emperors became common in the middle of the 4th century, diverting soldiers from the empire's frontier forces and allowing invaders to encroach. |
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The majority were struck in the reigns of emperors Constantius II and Julian and derive from a range of mints including Arles and Lyons in France, Trier in Germany, and Rome. |
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Requests could be submitted directly to the better emperors, and the answers had the force of law, putting the imperial power directly in touch with even humble subjects. |
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Under a series of emperors who each adopted a mature and capable successor, the Empire did not require civil wars to regulate the imperial succession. |
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Later emperors like Julian the Apostate tried to present themselves as advocates of the humiles by insisting on trustworthy mintings of the bronze currency. |
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Roman triumphal practices changed significantly at the start of the imperial period when the first Roman Emperor Augustus decreed that only emperors would be granted triumphs. |
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Instead, he was lumped with the other emperors of the fallen dynasty. |
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The culinary experience at Peppermill has an essence of the regal life and feast of the erstwhile emperors, maharajas, Nizams and navabs of India. |
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The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate. |
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