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dynasty

A succession of rulers forming a coherent sequence, even if the rulers were not always related. Ancient was traditionally divided into 30 dynasties according to the system of Egyptian historian Manetho (3rd century BC).



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Of old, the rise of the Yin dynasty was due to I Chih who had served under the Hsia.
The fourth is, when the power is in the same hands as the other, but not under the control of law; and this sort of oligarchy exactly corresponds to a tyranny in monarchies, and to that particular species of democracies which I last mentioned in treating of that state: this has the particular name of a dynasty.
Those citizens of the ocean feel sheltered under the aegis of an uncontested law, of an undisputed dynasty.
 
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