Three dynasties may be put down for this period--the XVIth, XVth, and XIVth.
Of the IIIrd, IInd, and Ist dynasties we have no monuments, but even this unknown age must have been preceded by a long period of development, till at last MENES is set down as the first Pharaoh of Egypt about 3892 B.
During the fourteenth century and afterwards the Gonds established dynasties at the places already mentioned in the Central Provinces.
As stated in the article on Kol, it is known that Rajput dynasties were ruling in various parts of the Central Provinces from about the sixth to the twelfth centuries.
Three dynasties seemed in that battle to have celebrated a joint triumph; as a matter of fact, the free national spirit of Germany, having narrowly escaped being smothered by Napoleonic imperialism, had chosen a national dynasty as its refuge.
The allied dynasties were made to feel ashamed by their subjects, and in Great Britain there was a fierce surge of reprobation, the resonance of which has not yet died away.
France abhorred the dynasties and all their works, believing that dynastic rule could never mean anything except absolutism and feudalism.
The war was one of extermination on the part of the allies; in the interest of their dynastiesthey intended not only to destroy Napoleon, but also thereby to root out the ideas for which he was supposed to stand.
The Congress of Vienna represented, not a confederation of states, but a league of dynasties posing as nations and banded for mutual self-preservation.
He had studied the eighteenth and nineteenthdynasties before, and with the air of a friendly tutor interested her in the history and monuments.
There were twenty-six dynasties of Pharaohs, and each one of them had scarabs of his own pattern.
The people of Thebes understood the business best, and brought the art to perfection, but each of the twenty-six dynasties had its own method and reputation.
We have eliminated royal dynasties from the motives of conquest.
But in our own days men kill each other for dynasties of cash--for wealthy firms and intermarried families.
But a new and serious hindrance now arose in consequence of the embarrassments caused by the affairs of the Palatinate, in which the interests of the two dynasties came into immediate collision with one another.
We have to learn, as the Church in the second century had to learn, that the End is not yet, that New Jerusalem, like all other objects of sense, is an image of the truth rather than the truth itself.
What added to the offence was that he saw the eschatology in a wrong perspective.
Schweitzer's book does not pretend to be an impartial survey.
In accordance with this principle many famous Lives of Jesus which have prolonged an honoured existence through many successive editions, will make but a poor figure, while others, which have received scant notice, will appear great.
And the only real advance in the meantime was the general recognition that the Life of Jesus was not to be interpreted on rationalistic, but on historical lines.
The historic personality of Jesus again began to take on intelligible outlines for him.
The dynasties of Egypt were once cited against the Bible narrative, but these have been reduced to moderate figures.
They often counted dynasties by years of three months and also of a month!
There is a question whether the Egyptian dynasties were successive or in some cases contemporary.
Since the Han, the successive dynasties have considered the literary monuments of the country to be an object of their special care.
Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency.
At Luxor Amenôthes demolished the small temple with which the sovereigns of the XIIth and XIIIth dynasties had been satisfied, and replaced it by a structure which is still one of the finest yet remaining of the times of the Pharaohs.
National prosperity depends upon circumstances sufficiently general to make the experience of one country of great value to another, though ignorant Bourbon dynasties and Rump Congresses refuse to learn the lesson.
Whole legions of heroes, dynasties of kings, and adulteresses as many as Dante saw borne on the whirlwind, have vanished from the face of history, and terrible has been the havoc in the opening pages of our chronological tables.
But even under the foreign dynasties a national Indian type of state was established and held its ground, and opposed a not less permanent barrier to the development of the Partho-Persian power in the East than did the Roman state in the West.
Even the native Berber dynasties formed no exception to this, whether because in their kingdoms the more considerable towns were more Phoenician than Libyan, or because the Phoenician civilisation prevailed so far generally.
The royal line of Mosquito may be classed among the unfortunate dynasties of the world.
In the age of the XVIIIth, XIXth, and XXth Egyptian Dynasties this kingdom of the Hittites (or Kheta, as the Egyptians called them) was the mightiest in Anterior Asia.
The first of thesedynasties is altogether mythical, and the second very largely so.
Xerxes does not appear even to have suspected that in respecting the local dynasties he retained chiefs always ready to take part in future Egyptian revolts.
Certain dynasties succeeded for a while in reducing several of these town districts to subservience, but at the first opportunity the league of kingdoms which had been thus expanded breaks up very easily into its original constituents.
Of these the most celebrated were governed by kings of the Rajput race, the only one whose dynasties still exist and which has preserved, if not its independence, at least its institutions and its customs.
It may indeed be true, when we turn over the first pages of the annals of the world, that Asia Minor was only of secondary importance when the dynasties of Pharaoh ruled in Egypt.
Whether the singularly exact correspondence between the circumstances of the first two northern Israelite dynasties is historical, has not unnaturally been questioned.
The relations of the Indian dynasties to the successive hordes of Scythians who poured down on northern India, are obscure.
But we will not go through the history of dynasties and dynastic lists, at least not when the authorities are so uncertain.
The Chinese painters of the T'ang and Sung dynasties were the first to discover that black ink could be made to abstract all pigments and thereby suggest, more believably than actual color paintings, the real tones found in nature.
The rivalry of the dynastiesto which for so long the interests of the nation had been sacrificed now ceased.
Under the eleventh and twelfth dynasties Lower Egypt comes on the scene.
Earlier dynasties of gods, to which the generation of Indra succeeded, are not unfrequently mentioned in the Rig- Veda.
It is alleged that flint chisels and stone hammers were used by the workers of the mines in Sinai, even under Dynasties XII.
The elder dynasties of Greek gods, Uranus and Cronos, with their adventures and their fall, have already been examined.
The art of the Memphite dynasties has suffered as much as the literature from the hand of time, but in the case of the former the fragments are at least numerous and accessible to all.
It is related that he was of Heracleopolite extraction, and the two dynasties which succeeded him, the IXth and the Xth, were also Heracleopolitan.
The fashion of burying in a pyramid was not adopted in the environs of Memphis until tolerably late times, and the Pharaohs of the primitive dynasties were interred, as their subjects were, in sepulchral chambers of mastabas.
From the womb, as it were, of these cemeteries, the Egypt of the Memphite dynasties gradually takes new life, and reappears in the full daylight of history.
Rougé was the first to bring this fact to light in his Becherches sur les monuments qu'on peut attribuer aux six premières dynasties de Manéthon, pp.
Bunsen made of the Heracleopolitan two subordinate dynasties reigning simultaneously in Lower Egypt, and originating at Heracleopolis in the Delta: they were supposed to have been contemporaries of the last Memphite and first Theban dynasties.
But the ancient royal cities of Kheops and his children had ceased to exist; Memphis, like Thebes, was now a provincial town, and its associations were with the VIth and VIIIth dynasties only.
Thus equipped, the young man ended usually by succeeding his father or his patron: in most of the government administrations, we find whole dynasties of scribes on a small scale, whose members inherited the same post for several centuries.
The dynasties which, so far as we can see, Tnephachtus and Bocchoris overcame or removed, we find again at the head of their districts under the Ethiopians.
The great continental dynasties looked with some jealousy and suspicion on him, and the small reigning houses, who were all allied with the great continental dynasties, thought it prudent to copy their example.
Their fleets swept the Levantine waters, while the pirate dynasties of Tunis and Algiers threatened the whole Mediterranean coast with ruin.
It had been formed into a compact domain, of comparatively small extent, but of vast commercial and agricultural resources, by the two dynasties of Visconti and Sforza.
Their military delegates, among whom the most efficient captain was the terrible Cesare Borgia, had full power to crush the liberties of cities, exterminate the dynasties of despots, and reduce refractory districts to the Papal sway.
The Han dynasty had extended her boundaries in the north; the Suy and Tang dynasties now spread her civilization to the south, and China {247} began to assume the proportions she has to-day.
Dynasties came and went in these cradle states of civilization, but the main tenor of human life went on, with a slow increase in refinement and complexity age by age.
A time was to come in the thirteenth century when a Mongolian overlord would rule from the Danube to the Pacific, and Turkish dynasties were destined to reign over the entire Byzantine and Persian Empires, over Egypt and most of India.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dynasties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
