Actually, the village is a living museum of buildings of the Ming and Qing dynasties. |
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We were totally out of our league, however, in the fine wines category and after the questions on Chinese dynasties we were in last place. |
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It was these men and the Greek dynasties they founded in the East who really created what we now know as Hellenistic culture. |
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Prior to the modern period, states were justified by reference to their rulers, their dynasties, and their religion. |
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Looking outside politics, we see similar dynasties in business, for example the Rockefellers, Mellons and du Ponts. |
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The hundred million years and more of Pangean history saw a succession of cosmopolitan animal dynasties spread over the entire supercontinent. |
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Totems of specific clans, healers, or royal dynasties are taboo to certain members of some ethnic groups. |
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Newcomers trying to break into politics in Kerry must be having second thoughts, given the way the old political dynasties continue to dominate. |
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To their great credit, they have shown a gentleness of touch that dynasties aren't always known for. |
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The exhibition explores life above and below stairs, examining the role of women as decision makers raising dynasties and workhorses in service. |
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Bootlegging helped enrich a fellow named Joseph Kennedy, creating one of America's great political dynasties. |
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One of Cheshire's best known dynasties has been hit by a second shock death in five years. |
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His mother's family were the type of biblically rich dynasties that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about. |
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Historical artefacts preserved from that period show the might of the Bulgarian tsar dynasties and the influence of the Bulgarian Patriarch. |
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The relationship between Taiwan and China goes back more than 400 years, through the PRC, the Republic of China, and the Qing and Ming dynasties. |
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He assisted in compiling the official histories of the Jin and Sui dynasties. |
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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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The great ministerial dynasties, and many of the most dynamic servants of the Bourbon monarchy, acquired nobility through the purchase of office. |
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The era of the privately-run family dynasties in Australian media is over, and the era of benign governance of the ABC is over. |
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This month my two-part series on the Dukes of York concludes with the dukes from the Stuart, Hanoverian, and Windsor dynasties. |
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The Italian branches of the Habsburg and Bourbon dynasties were severed from their parent houses. |
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Is it finally high noon for one of Turkey's most powerful business dynasties? |
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Of course none of these great families runs its operations quite like the industrial dynasties of the 19th century. |
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Big sleeves were in a variety of Chinese clothing styles from various dynasties. |
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Exclusion from these was serious for the ousted dynasties, which lost access to the manpower and produce of rich areas of tillage and grazing. |
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Our examination of this ornament and several other jades has provided evidence for the use of rotary tools during the Ming and Qing dynasties. |
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But the kinship between these two pedigreed sons of American political dynasties is sincere. |
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The short and troubled reigns of Cnut's sons saw the rise of powerful dynasties in England. |
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Giant carp control the lake, wallowing, complacent, feed on glutinous rice, silvery ancients reminding how scales and fish-slime outlast dynasties. |
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In content, Soucek concentrates on the political narrative of conquests, rulers, and dynasties, along with brief profiles of a few literary and religious figures. |
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The massive monumental structures were intricately carved and decorated with scenes showing how the hereditary dynasties of the kings united with the gods. |
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If the scions of the political dynasties have to reinvent themselves as stars in order to capture the imagination, what hope is there for ordinary but hard-working candidates? |
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They were the feudatories of the prominent dynasties of Karnataka. |
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Indonesia's election campaign is in many ways a battle between two dynasties which have dominated politics since the country's birth almost 60 years ago. |
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From the 1830s the old expatriate merchant dynasties faced growing competition from commission agents operating on the instruction of traders in the importing market. |
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The key consideration in war-torn Gaelic society was that marriages should seal important political and military alliances between the chieftains' dynasties. |
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For the Post, the International Herald Tribune partnership was as much a personal bond between the two newspapers and the two family dynasties as it was a business deal. |
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The Habsburg and Hohenzollern dynasties abdicated, following the Romanovs. |
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Mark Stafford, a fourth-generation scion of one of Leinster's most prominent business dynasties, has decided to end his family's informal media omerta. |
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And by 1918 there had been a tumultuous upheaval of the four dynasties that dominated East and Central Europe. |
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For all our grousing about political dynasties, Americans clearly have a thing for them. |
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He describes the Safavid, Qajar, and Pehlavi dynasties and how they sought to balance the three ethnic tribes within Iran to try to forge a nationalist identity. |
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After the disintegration of the Carolingian empire, Athelstan, who involved himself with foreign dynasties and politics, was perhaps the most powerful monarch in the West. |
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These were members of the royal family whose dynasties became hereditary while their traditional districts were clearly defined by boundaries and Bemba names. |
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Emperors and officials of various dynasties including Emperor Qinshihuang in 210 BC made obeisance and offered sacrifices at the Mausoleum of Yu the Great. |
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Under effective British rule since 1757, the nawab dynasties of Bengal, Orissa, and Bihar were united into the single province and ruled from Calcutta. |
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When writing about his rise, British tabloids never failed to mention the pharaohs' ancient dynasties. |
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All three dynasties claimed their descent from Narakasura, an immigrant from Aryavarta. |
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The Yuan and Ming dynasties significantly rebuilt the canal and altered its route to supply their capital Beijing. |
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As Confucianism ascended the term disappeared, but appears again in later dynasties. |
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From the 16th and 17th centuries some landowners began to develop the industry and several dynasties of coalowners emerged. |
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Iranian culture, on the other hand, like Kassite culture in earlier times, had only limited impact on the western holdings of these dynasties. |
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There were five caliphates under different dynasties until Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk abolished the last of them early last century. |
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There were many dynasties of artists, and many married the daughters of their masters or other artists. |
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The earliest Welsh genealogies give Maximus the role of founding father for several royal dynasties, including those of Powys and Gwent. |
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The oration also moves away from the religious ideology of the Tetrarchy, with its focus on twin dynasties of Jupiter and Hercules. |
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Morocco, Lesotho, and Swaziland remain monarchies under dynasties that predate colonial rule. |
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German Britons and German speakers have contributed to numerous areas in British life, especially in establishing powerful family dynasties. |
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Its history is full of numerous dynasties that have ruled over various parts of the country. |
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Power was exercised by the heads of a few regional dynasties vying with each other for supremacy over the whole island. |
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Chipperfield's Circus dates back more than 300 years in Britain, making it one of the oldest family circus dynasties. |
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The office of king in ancient Sparta was divided between two kings from separate dynasties, each holding a veto over the other's actions. |
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The Tang and Song dynasties did not undertake any significant effort in the region. |
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Even at the time the law tracts were being written these petty kingdoms were being swept away by newly emerging dynasties of dynamic overkings. |
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The first known banknote was first developed in China during the Tang and Song dynasties, starting in the 7th century. |
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The Earliest Poets wrote praise poems for rulers and lords of Welsh dynasties from Strathclyde to Cornwall. |
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It is best known for the Hyksos, whose reign comprised the 15th and 16th dynasties. |
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His sons would in turn found dynasties of their own which would loom large in Welsh history, each claiming descent from Rhodri. |
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The companies were mainly owned by two dynasties, the Guest and Crawshay families. |
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Most of them are dedicated to their founders, who hailed from local dynasties and were venerated as patron saints. |
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Several dynasties emerged from the ninth to 16th centuries, the Rasulid dynasty being the strongest and most prosperous. |
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Yemen was in turmoil as Sana'a became a battlefield for the three dynasties, as well as independent tribes. |
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Shortly after Queen Arwa's death, the country was split between five competing petty dynasties along religious lines. |
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During the Middle Ages, several Indian dynasties were predominant, including the Gupta dynasty. |
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The Yuan and Qing dynasties introduced Mongolian and Manchu cuisine, warm northern dishes that popularized hot pot cooking. |
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In Asia, various Chinese dynasties and Japanese shogunates controlled the Asian sphere. |
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Japan names its styles after imperial dynasties too, and also saw much interplay between the styles of calligraphy and painting. |
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Among his descendants are several royal dynasties, including the Habsburg, Capetian and Plantagenet dynasties. |
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The office of Holy Roman Emperor was traditionally elective, although frequently controlled by dynasties. |
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The kings beginning with Rudolf I of Germany increasingly relied on the lands of their respective dynasties to support their power. |
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They believed any such conflict would only serve the interests of royal dynasties. |
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As in prior dynasties, the provincial administrations were monitored by a travelling inspector from the Censorate. |
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He restored the Imperial Secretariat and left the local administrative structure of past Chinese dynasties unchanged. |
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This government structure at the provincial level was later copied by the Ming and Qing dynasties. |
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Taizong set out to solve internal problems within the government which had constantly plagued past dynasties. |
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They evolved in the later dynasties, and were used throughout Asia for extensive ocean voyages. |
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Incense was used by Chinese cultures from Neolithic times and became more widespread in the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties. |
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Their high visibility was due to their foundation of taifa dynasties rather than large numbers. |
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For much of its existence, the realm was contested between French and Spanish dynasties. |
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This marked the end of the two great dynasties of ancient Sri Lanka, the Moriya and the Lambakanna. |
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Ancient India, with its kingdoms and dynasties, had a long tradition of diplomacy. |
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These dynasties had been Persianized, and had adopted Persian models of administration and rulership. |
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Compared to its preceding dynasties, the geopolitical reach of the Zand dynasty was limited. |
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Kalomte was a royal title, whose exact meaning is not yet deciphered, but it was held only by the most powerful kings of the strongest dynasties. |
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Successive dynasties developed bureaucratic systems that enabled the emperor to control vast territories directly. |
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These policies, which were adopted by later dynasties, brought enormous population growth, and amassed excessive wealth to the state. |
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These practices, which matured in the Tang dynasty, were continued by the later dynasties, with some modifications. |
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Commerce and trade, which flourished in the previous Song and Yuan dynasties, were less emphasized. |
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Chinese celadons were exported to most of Eurasia, but not Europe, between roughly the Tang and the early Ming dynasties. |
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The supremacy of the various dynasties over the country depicts more of an aggrandizable character than of a permanent settlement. |
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The colored bas-reliefs decorating the walls of the palaces constitute a visual narrative illustrating events that marked the history of the Dahomean dynasties. |
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She is credited with being instrumental in drawing the borders of the fledgling states of Iraq and Transjordan, where the Hashemites founded dynasties. |
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The examples range from the pre-Islamic era to the time of the Seljuks, Armenians, Mongols and other dynasties both large and small of the 9th-13th centuries. |
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These two dynasties, the Almoravids and the Almohades, left very indelible impressions upon Spain, and ultimately, western European society and development. |
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It was originally compiled during the Jin, Tang, and Song dynasties. |
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From the Tang to Qing dynasties, the Grand Canal served as the main artery between northern and southern China and was essential for the transport of grain to Beijing. |
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In the Ming and Qing dynasties, however, the water level in the Tonghui River dropped and it was impossible for ships to travel from Tongzhou to Beijing. |
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During this period, they ruled as three related yet individual dynasties. |
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During the Classical period, various parts of India were ruled by numerous dynasties for the next 1,500 years, among which the Gupta Empire stands out. |
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Rime books, which were written since the Northern and Southern dynasties, may also have reflected one or more systems of standard pronunciation during those times. |
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Hongwu Emperor, being the only founder of Chinese dynasties from the peasant origin, had laid the foundation of a state that relied fundamentally in agriculture. |
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In the early 5th century, China entered a period known as the Northern and Southern dynasties, in which parallel regimes ruled the northern and southern halves of the country. |
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This period was characterized by a gradual decentralization of the state that had existed during the Qin and Han dynasties, and an increase in the power of great families. |
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The Late subperiod included the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. |
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A new imperial tribute system established Mexica tribute collectors that taxed the population directly, bypassing the authority of local dynasties. |
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Many histories of previous dynasties were compiled between 636 and 659 by court officials during and shortly after the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang. |
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From the 11th century onwards, a series of Berber dynasties arose. |
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Marinid and Saadi dynasties continued the struggle against foreign domination, and Morocco remained the only North African country to avoid Ottoman occupation. |
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Nevertheless, socially the educated Chinese elite were in general not given the degree of esteem that they had been accorded previously under native Chinese dynasties. |
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He bolstered his popularity among his subjects by modeling his government on the bureaucracy of traditional Chinese dynasties and adopting the Chinese era name of Zhongtong. |
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However, the power vacuum he left in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent directly gave rise to one of the most powerful Indian dynasties in history, the Maurya Empire. |
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Although naval power during the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties established China as a major world seapower in the East, the Qing Dynasty lacked an official standing navy. |
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This centralization of power forced hundreds of chieftains from their lands, which were slowly being eaten up by the kings and dynasties that began to emerge. |
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However, expatriate businessman Fergus McCann wrested control of the club, and ousted the family dynasties which had controlled Celtic since its foundation. |
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From the 12th century, eight 'old' mormaer dynasties are known to be hereditary, continuous and no longer fragmentary, and also additionally the dynasties of Charraig. |
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Emperors of the Antonine and Severan dynasties overall debased the currency, particularly the denarius, under the pressures of meeting military payrolls. |
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Later, the Han, the Sui, and the Northern dynasties all repaired, rebuilt, or expanded sections of the Great Wall at great cost to defend themselves against northern invaders. |
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The Delhi Sultanate covered varying parts of South Asia, and was ruled by a series of dynasties, called Mamluk, Khalji, Tughlaq, Sayyid and Lodi dynasties. |
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Importantly, whatever their origin or whenever they flourished, these dynasties established their claim to lordship through their links to extended kin ties. |
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Since their days as the editors of Ramparts magazine in the 1960s, Peter Collier and David Horowitz have written a substantial subliterature on American dynasties. |
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