The claiming crown: politics, dynasty, and gender in state portraits of Medici women Implicit in the foregoing discussion is the thesis that the northern resistance to the Canmores was essentially dynastically driven; that is to say, MacHeths and MacWilliams were excluded from competing for the ...
Davis, Alisha
(also Harshavardhana). North Indian ruler (606–c. 647). Member of the Pushyabhuti dynasty. By inheritance Harsha ruled lands in the upper Ganges-Yamuna Doab, in eastern Punjab, and in eastern Rajputana. His initial capital was Sthaneswara (Thaneswar). Harsha captured the lands the Bengali...
/kahn'jee/ (From the Japanese "kan" - the Chinese Han dynasty, and "ji" -glyphor letter of the alphabet. Not capitalised. Plural "kanji") The Japanese word for aHan characterused in Japanese. Kanji constitute a part of thewriting systemused to represent the Japanese language in written,...
For a long time, dynasty was the dominant form of periodization. While it works very well for the study of political history and institutional history, it has proved inadequate for envisioning social, intellectual, and cultural continuities and changes that happened independent of political sovereignty...
Xi Jinping President of the People's Republic of China "The land is fertile and crops thriving. Trees flourish, and flowers and fruits abound. A place home to steeds." This is how Huen Tsang, an eminent Chinese monk in the Tang Dynasty over 1,300 years ago, depicted the richly-endowed...
In addition, the findings can be used in political activities to increase the country’s authority on the world stage and to present the contribution of national artists to the world culture. The study is universal as it can find its place in Chinese and world scientific, cultural, pedagogical...
and a happy people in his book A Brief Account of Islands. It was an important book from which the Chinese learned about Saudi Arabia at that time. Six hundred years ago, Zheng He, a Chinese navigator of the Ming Dynasty, reached Jeddah and Medina on his oceangoing voyages, leaving behind...
descended from the Nilo-Hamitic tribes that settled the area in the 14th and 15th centuries; and the Twa, who are Pygmies. The Tutsi, who were for the most part stock raisers, dominated the country. From them emerged the Rwandan feudal elite and the dynasty of Rwandan kings. Most of the...
Political parties. The Liberal Democratic Party, founded in 1955, represents the interests of big monopoly capital, the court aristocracy, the upper levels of the bureaucracy, and the prosperous rural elite; it had about 1.5 million members in 1978. The Socialist Party of Japan (SPJ) was founde...