8 sentences with “dynastic”

The war began because of resentments and budding dynastic politics.

Monarchy is based on the practice of dynastic succession, in which the monarch's son or other relative inherits the throne.

On the other hand, in the 19th century newborn nations often looked back to the most traditional form of political sovereignty: dynastic identity.

The "real" power of a given emperor was determined not by the imperial title, but by the other lands and titles he had inherited by normal dynastic succession.

The raw economy became a major focus of warfare in the 17th century, as Europe's rival trading empires fought for territory and trade routes, not just for glory and dynastic lines.

In 1635 the French entered the war on the Protestant side. At this point, the war turned from a religious conflict into a dynastic struggle between the two largest royal houses in Europe: the Bourbons of France and the Habsburgs of Austria.

But the war was to be fought in the name of dynastic sovereignty and conservative political order, not territorial ambition. In other words, the next time France invaded Spain and Russia invaded Hungary, they did so in the name of restoring foreign conservative monarchs to their "rightful" position of power, not to enrich themselves.

One of the great historians of the time, Eric Hobsbawm, noted in his The Age of Empire that Europe had never seen so many states ruled by "emperors" as in the early 20th century: the Empress of the British Empire, the Kaiser of the German Reich, the Kaiser of the Austrian Reich and the Tsar of the Russian Empire were not only contemporaries, but were all related by dynastic marriages.