9 sentences with “dynasties”

The Pax Romana period included three distinct dynasties:

In the three great Egyptian dynasties and during the intervening periods, it was the scribes who provided continuity.

Subsequent dynasties would look back to the Sassanids as the model to emulate, just as the Sassanids had emulated the Achaemenids.

His leading generals quarrelled and eventually divided Alexander the Great's empire among themselves, founding several new dynasties in the process.

Likewise, the Sassanid identification of themselves, Iran, and the legacy of earlier Persian dynasties fused the essential ingredients of Persian historical identity.

These dynasties fought and traded with each other for some 300 years before being conquered by the Romans (the rise of Rome was set against the backdrop of the Hellenistic kingdoms).

A series of Turkic dynasties throughout the region began in 998 under the Ghaznavids in Persia, but the history of those dynasties is a litany of invasions, assassinations and collapses, typically after a few generations of tottering rule.

Although the Sassanid kings were obliged to rule both settled and nomadic peoples, as had all previous Persian dynasties, they were more successful in creating a stable system of government, not just relying on their own charismatic authority.

Egypt recovered and new dynasties of pharaohs were sometimes able to recapture some of the glory of the ancient Egyptian kingdoms in their building projects and in the power of their armies, but in the long term Egypt proved vulnerable to foreign invasion thereafter.