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Definition of Dynasties
1. dynasty [n] - See also: dynasty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dynasties
Literary usage of Dynasties
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In current literature Dynasties Three to Eleven arc often variously referred to
as the Old Kingdom (ancien empire), Dynasties Twelve to Seventeen as the ..."
2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Table I. page 79 shows the chronology of the first nineteen dynasties, ...
The dates of the earlier dynasties in this table arc always intended to be only ..."
3. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829)
"THE short continuance of the dynasties doth shew that they were not several ...
This is confirmed, first, by the number of the dynasties, whereof many are ..."
4. Bismarck, the Man & the Statesman: Being the Reflections and Reminiscences by Otto Bismarck, Arthur John Butler (1898)
"The opinion of the cultivated public as uttered in parliament and the press might
promote and sustain the determination of the dynasties, but perhaps ..."
5. The Economic History of China: With Special Reference to Agriculture by Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (1921)
"1 These three barbarian dynasties in the north were co-existent with the middle
four of the Six Dynasties, and belonged to the Barbarians who conquered the ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Dynasties, when he adopts a scries of years derived from Manetho, ... 3555 years
as the true duration of the thirty dynasties, and thus lowers the date in ..."
7. A Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury) by British Museum (1892)
"The period of time covered by these thirty dynasties has been calculated to extend
from BC 4400 to BC 340.* This arrangement and these calculations are ..."
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