The transition from the traditions of a dynastic empire to a modern nation-state was neither instantaneous nor a complete transformation. |
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Chinese peasant communities followed a cyclical movement between normative closure and openness as a function of the dynastic cycle. |
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During the early phase of the dynastic cycle, peace and prosperity reign, and population tends to increase. |
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Moral retribution was the earliest significance attached to the notion of a dynastic cycle. |
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Some observers warn that the return of dynastic families in the US is a dangerous trend. |
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The period was marked both by the systematic elaboration and assertion of dynastic claims. |
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Austria, with strong political and dynastic ties with Italy, was particularly italophile. |
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The boundaries of the Palatinate varied with the political and dynastic fortunes of the Counts Palatine. |
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Cheered by dynastic thoughts, he forgets his disdain for the wedding-favour, a chaplet of carnations, he is obliged to wear. |
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There was a strong dynastic element in the composition of these workshop teams. |
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But acclamation did not rule out the possibility of hereditary or even dynastic successions. |
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Often concerned with kingship, dynastic conflicts, and battles, these tales are sometimes also referred to as the king cycle. |
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If they are part of a dynastic bloodline, then why is the Princess opposed to them? |
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Discussions of ritual first appeared in the dynastic records of the Han period and contributed to the histories of later dynasties. |
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They sometimes came into conflict with the Burmese dynastic rulers, or with other ethnic groups inclined to wage war. |
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Moreover, pedigrees, by which dynastic links could be checked, do not exist for all the families of all his beneficiaries. |
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Well, they do say that American politics is strangely dynastic for a democracy. |
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Then again, this is part and parcel of most political systems, including China's dynastic cycles. |
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Intended to serve as a dynastic mausoleum, it houses one of England's most dazzling collections of aristocratic tombs. |
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Although the Angevin monarchs no longer had most of their Angevin lands, their grand dynastic visions had not diminished. |
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Above the bench in the courtroom there was a double-headed eagle, a very ancient dynastic symbol representing the union of church and state. |
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Emperor Xiaowen sought to center himself within the historical, geopolitical, and ritual complex of Chinese rulership and dynastic succession. |
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For a time it seemed that the dynastic cycle might be broken and traditional autocracy could be in the process of transmutation. |
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In dynastic China, the most prestigious career was government service. |
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The dynastic cycle phase, in the Chinese understanding of modern history, was posited on one of the grand theories that underlay the Chinese state. |
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In many cases, management of the mills is almost dynastic, with families of rich farmers governing the mill as if it belongs to them and not to the shareholders. |
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That drift of dynastic Egypt from Africa has now dramatically slowed. |
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Such feasts might take place at inauguration ceremonies such as dynastic weddings, or to accompany the distribution of loot or booty from raids or trading expeditions. |
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This interest in allying rulership with time and cosmos stands in full accord with the ceremonial and commemorative practices of Maya dynastic kingship. |
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Kotzamani's therianthropic figures suggest the richness of many ancient traditions that stretch from dynastic Egyptian and pre-Classical Greek to Minoan art. |
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The new machines carried the day and the exclusiveness of skilled workers, who had established an almost dynastic monopoly of some crafts, was broken down. |
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By moving their capital to Delhi, then, the British symbolically sought to resolve centuries of dynastic struggle for control of the subcontinent. |
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But the conflict had reawakened French interest in Italy, and in 1619 a dynastic marriage was concluded between Charles Emanuel's heir and Louis XIII's sister. |
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She would remain lost until, almost three thousand years later, modern Egyptologists reconstructed her damaged inscriptions and restored her to her rightful dynastic place. |
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Notable are three heads, finely carved and preserving traces of their original polychromy, found in the great sanctuary of Serapis, the dynastic patron deity, at Memphis. |
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It is tempting to say that the feudal-dynastic element had been removed from foreign policy, but there was to be a significant revival of dynastic policy under the Stewarts. |
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But some of the most obvious places where dynastic power can be seen are on the executive side of the business. |
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Might that be Hafsat herself, a dynastic political power and dedicated public servant already? |
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It turns the focus to the inner lives of three young women caught in the dynastic soap opera. |
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Further, the works seem constructed to evoke the interchangeable picture cycles, hieroglyphs, representations, and inscriptions of dynastic period art. |
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The central action of the play celebrates the marriage of Ferdinand and Miranda as the instrument of dynastic restitution that accords with their desires. |
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Thus, through dynastic accident and shrewd marriage, within five years Henry had gained control of unprecedented resources, often referred to as the Angevin Empire. |
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Neither major power wanted a conflict in north Italy, but the strength of appeals for support in the face of an apparently unresolvable dynastic dispute proved irresistible. |
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Although unmentioned in the official dynastic histories, Zheng He probably died during the treasure fleet's last voyage. |
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During the Baroque era, Europe was repeatedly plagued by dynastic wars, such as the Spanish and Austrian wars of succession. |
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Although primarily a dynastic conflict, the war gave impetus to ideas of French and English nationalism. |
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The dynastic question, which arose due to an interruption of the direct male line of the Capetians, was the official pretext. |
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The dispute over Guyenne is even more important than the dynastic question in explaining the outbreak of the war. |
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The domestic and dynastic difficulties faced by England and France in this period quieted the war for a decade. |
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When Edward died suddenly in 1483, political and dynastic turmoil erupted again. |
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He made a dynastic marriage with Catherine of Aragon, widow of his brother Arthur, in June 1509, just before his coronation on Midsummer's Day. |
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However, many on the English side were concerned by the dynastic implications of matrimony, including some Privy Councillors. |
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Thus deprived of French dynastic backing after 1697, Jacobites posed no further serious threats during William's reign. |
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Charles also inherited the tradition of political and dynastic enmity between the royal and the Burgundian ducal lines of the Valois dynasty. |
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Holbein's cartoon for part of the dynastic Tudor wall painting at Whitehall reveals how he prepared for a large mural. |
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The Mongols then established their dynastic court and governed Hong Kong for 97 years. |
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In feudal and dynastic terms, the Scottish reliance on French support was revived during the reign of Charles II, whose own mother was French. |
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Thorfinn's death and presumed burial at the broch of Hoxa, on South Ronaldsay, led to a long period of dynastic strife. |
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After a series of dynastic wars, the House of Luxembourg gained the Bohemian throne. |
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The success of Augustus in establishing principles of dynastic succession was limited by his outliving a number of talented potential heirs. |
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It is also around this time that Robert would have been knighted, and he began to appear on the political stage in the Bruce dynastic interest. |
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He apparently took Powys from Llywelyn ap Merfyn at the same time and arranged for a dynastic marriage between their children. |
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Gruffudd gave licence to his sons Cadwallon and Owain to press the opportunity the dynastic strife in Meirionnydd presented. |
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The County of Barcelona and the Kingdom of Aragon entered in a dynastic union and gained territory and power in the Mediterranean. |
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In 278 BC Gaulish settlers in the Balkans were invited by Nicomedes I of Bithynia to help him in a dynastic struggle against his brother. |
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The Badarian culture and the successor Naqada series are generally regarded as precursors to dynastic Egypt. |
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Construction on Reading began in 1121, and Henry endowed it with rich lands and extensive privileges, making it a symbol of his dynastic lines. |
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The principal apartments, particularly, hold reminders of Victoria's dynastic links with the other European royal families. |
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The consequence was a dynastic union of the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon in 1479 when Ferdinand ascended to the Aragonese throne. |
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Traditional Chinese historiography describes history in terms of dynastic cycles. |
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They wrote about the history of Jesus Christ, that of the Church and that of their patrons, the dynastic history of the local rulers. |
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Some of the smaller European states were not so ethnically diverse, but were also dynastic states, ruled by a royal house. |
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Financial troubles in England following the conflict results in the Wars of the Roses, a series of dynastic wars for the throne of England. |
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Their marriage was a dynastic union which became the constituent event for the dawn of the Kingdom of Spain. |
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When a revolt in Constantinople halted his dynastic project, he again invaded Thrace and conquered Adrianople. |
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He worried about his succession and issued a series of dynastic instructions for his family, the Huang Ming Zu Xun. |
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In the second half of the 14th century, Tver was further weakened by dynastic struggles between its princes. |
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The forging of a dynastic link between the Crowns of Aragon and Castile marked the beginning of Barcelona's decline. |
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Isabella did, however, make successful dynastic matches for her three youngest daughters. |
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Sri Lankan dynastic history ended in 1815 CE, when the land became part of the British Empire. |
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The Classic period also saw the intrusive intervention of the central Mexican city of Teotihuacan in Maya dynastic politics. |
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Some rebellious kings were replaced by calpixqueh, or appointed governors rather than dynastic rulers. |
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In Germany, the constitution of the Weimar Republic in 1919 ceased to accord privileges to members of dynastic and noble families. |
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The accession to the throne of Philippe de Valois in 1328 broke the uninterrupted Capetian chain of power and necessitated a dynastic guarantor. |
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The nexus of dynastic politics, cronyism, militarism and evangelicism poses a serious threat to the fortunes of the United States. |
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The Xinhai Revolution ended 2,000 years of dynastic rule in China. |
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Soon after, in the late 15th century, in the dynastic conflict between Isabella I of Castile and Joanna La Beltraneja, part of the Galician aristocracy supported Joanna. |
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In Europe, deaths from smallpox often changed dynastic succession. |
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At the Cortes of Tomar in 1581, Philip was crowned Philip I of Portugal, uniting the two crowns and overseas empires under Spanish Habsburg rule in a dynastic Iberian Union. |
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Within 150 years of gaining control of Persia, the caliphs were forced to cede power to local dynastic emirs who only nominally acknowledged their authority. |
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His father refused to go to war again against Castile, hoping his heir's infatuation would end, and tried to arrange another dynastic marriage for Pedro. |
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The adoption of a dynastic name legitimized Mongol rule by integrating the government into the narrative of traditional Chinese political succession. |
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By then, the cause was more religious and political rather than dynastic. |
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In direct violation of the dynastic instructions, the Prince of Yan attempted to mourn his father in Nanjing, bringing a large armed guard with him. |
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Philip was married to his relative Mary I cousin of his father, due to this, Philip was King of England and Ireland in a dynastic union with Spain. |
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Spanish nationalism, on the other hand, tends to place more importance on the later dynastic union with the Crown of Castile, considering it the origin of one Spanish nation. |
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The close historical links between the domains of the Lower Saxon Circle now in modern Lower Saxony survived for centuries especially from a dynastic point of view. |
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At the same time a distinction was made with the eastern part of the old Saxon lands from the central German principalities later called Upper Saxony for dynastic reasons. |
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The French and Indian Wars were a series of conflicts in North America that represented the actions there that accompanied the European dynastic wars. |
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Members of the nontitled nobility also used portraiture, especially in the form of dynastic portrait galleries, to express pride in their bloodlines. |
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Gruffudd recovered Gwynedd by 1095, and by 1098 Gruffudd allied with Cadwgan ap Bleddyn of the Mathrafal house of Powys, their traditional dynastic rivalry notwithstanding. |
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His more immediate political legacy was that he replaced Diocletian's tetrarchy with the principle of dynastic succession by leaving the empire to his sons. |
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During the 15th century, orders of chivalry, or dynastic orders of knighthood, began to be created in a more courtly fashion that could be created ad hoc. |
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This alliance formed in the 18th century provided the ideological impetus to Saudi expansion and remains the basis of Saudi Arabian dynastic rule today. |
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Henry strongly wanted a male heir, and many of his subjects might have agreed, if only because they wanted to avoid another dynastic conflict like the Wars of the Roses. |
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Luttrell wanted the drawings to reflect the current devotional, cultural, political, economic and dynastic aspirations that he and his family had. |
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As a result, however, the rival dynastic lines clashed, often violently. |
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Since 1640, Portugal had been fighting a war against Spain to restore its independence after a dynastic union of sixty years between the crowns of Spain and Portugal. |
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Henry married Elizabeth of York with the hope of uniting the Yorkist and Lancastrian sides of the Plantagenet dynastic disputes, and he was largely successful. |
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However, it was the old dynastic claim to the throne of France, first pursued by Edward III of England, that justified war with France in English opinion. |
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Edward had also been accused of endowing his younger sons too liberally and thereby promoting dynastic strife culminating in the Wars of the Roses. |
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His more immediate political legacy was that, in leaving the empire to his sons, he replaced Diocletian's tetrarchy with the principle of dynastic succession. |
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The loyalty of lords, of castellans and knights, without which dynastic politics would have become a masquerade and armies a sham, depended on these ideals and expectations. |
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