As the concept of republics gained momentum, royals were ousted across Europe and its colonial empire. Of the monarchies that remain today, many serve a symbolic purpose rather than that of political ruler. Regardless, the legacy of dazzling jewelry collections from monarchies past continues to capt...
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As the old feudal regimes collapsed and were replaced by centralized monarchies during the Zhanguo period, the feudal nobility fell victim to power struggles within the states and to conquest by stronger states. During the Chunqiu period these parallel processes drastically reduced the numbers of the...
II. After the war, all three countries abandoned their policies ofneutralityand became founding members ofNATO, proceeding from there to thecustoms unionthat became the expanded Benelux Economic Union in 1960. The Low Countries areconstitutionalandhereditarymonarchieswith parliamentary forms of government....
monarchies, and a commercial centre rivaled only byVenicein theLevanttrade and competing with other Italian towns in trade with western Europe. Eastern spices, dyestuffs and medicaments, western cloth and metals, African wool, skins, coral, and gold were the main articles of a very diversified ...
privileges under all of the above monarchies. In the late 18th century the city was a haven ofEnlightenmentthought; the publisher Hartknoch printed majortreatisesby philosophersJohann Georg Hamann,Johann Gottfried von Herder, andImmanuel Kantas well as German translations of the work ofJean-Jacques ...
of government. Three island groups—Tonga, Tahiti, and Hawaii—had traditionally been monarchies. This form of government survives only in Tonga, where a British-style parliament gives special status to traditional nobles. Most of the remaining island groups have gained some degree of independence ...
While he was hated by many Athenians, who believed in democracy not monarchies or empires — and while, Cartledge says, some followers of Zoroastrianism, an ancient monotheistic religion, still think of him as evil for destroying their ancient records in Persepolis, modern-day Iran — since his...
While he was hated by many Athenians, who believed in democracy not monarchies or empires — and while, Cartledge says, some followers of Zoroastrianism, an ancient monotheistic religion, still think of him as evil for destroying their ancient records in Persepolis, modern-day ...
While he was hated by many Athenians, who believed in democracy not monarchies or empires — and while, Cartledge says, some followers of Zoroastrianism, an ancient monotheistic religion, still think of him as evil for destroying their ancient records in Persepolis, modern-day Iran — since his...