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How to use kingdoms in a sentence

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Britain's division into two power blocks had begun, and eventually crystallized into the kingdoms of England and Scotland.
Invasions from southern India, combined with internecine strife, pushed Sinhalese kingdoms southward.
I overheard father say once that some of the other kingdoms are starting to side with him.
One finds a multitude of nondemocratic regimes there, ranging from monarchical kingdoms to authoritarian polities.
During the Eastern Zhou royal power declined and there was a concomitant growth in the feudal fiefs, some becoming quasi-independent kingdoms.
All of the thirteen kingdoms had been graced with a stone, and a crystal and a star in the heavens.
Part of its brief is to investigate the authenticity of kingdoms, kings, tribes and other traditional leaders.
All Infantes in the different kingdoms were and are always royal princes, in the general meaning of the word.
The four kingdoms soon relapsed into paganism, and initially only Kent was reconverted.
They have been identified in various biological kingdoms, however, they seem to be rare in plants.
On the bright side, if students can get into the vertebrate examples discussed here, maybe some will plumb deeper into other phyla and kingdoms.
The churches in both kingdoms acknowledged the Coptic patriarch as their head and he consecrated their metropolitan bishops.
In the wake of the Napoleonic wars Italy was divided into a patchwork of kingdoms and duchies.
Rather, the German state resulted from the union of a collection of principalities and kingdoms under the domination of the strongest, Prussia.
It was an amalgamation of independent German kingdoms, fiefdoms, and statelets, lightly bound together with no revenue, army, courts, or police.
Great empires, kingdoms and principalities have come and gone, but the Papacy endures.
The Hellenistic period unfolded generally as a story of successive kingdoms and empires.
The Kongo, Ndongo, and Ovimbundu kingdoms had early contact with the Portuguese, who in the sixteenth century created colonies on the coast.
The system of social stratification has its roots in the precolonial kingdoms.
So were suggestions to re-create the old map of the Middle East with kingdoms of Hittites, Phoenicians and Ammonites.
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They established kingdoms and expanded their territory, often in conflict with other ethnic groups such as the Burmese.
Unitary states may be created from a number of republics, kingdoms, and principalities, as with Germany and Italy.
Certainly the Vikings set up new kingdoms in England and Ireland, and those kingdoms had their own cultures.
The eighth century had seen the regional kingdoms and larger monasteries of Britain and Ireland became major landowners and economic powers.
This is the fundamental difference between kingdoms, theocracies, feudal states, and a democratic republic.
The period of Roman decline and the early history of the Saxon kingdoms remains obscure.
Amid the ruin of the City of Dreams, Mehmed imbibed a valuable lesson about the twilight of nations, empires and kingdoms.
Long after the kingdoms of southern Arabia disappeared, the fabled riches of the region live on in the popular imagination.
Along it, empires, kingdoms, and colonial realms have been plunged into war and bloodshed.
It was also realized in both kingdoms that for changes to be implemented, there needed to be a period of peace.
Classic stories tell of men who fight wars and abandon kingdoms to find solace in their young love.
But he kept his kingdoms in peace at home and abroad, he preserved the powers of the crown, and he held the church firmly to a middle course.
In return for common contributions, the subjects of all the kingdoms should have equal access to offices and patronage.
His marriage to Anne in 1683 sealed a diplomatic concord between their respective kingdoms against the Dutch.
The princes of Italy have lost their kingdoms due to their reliance upon mercenary or auxiliary armies.
Some organisms have enlisted symbionts to provide traits or functions found in other kingdoms.
This was no easy task and several attempts were made on his life by chieftains who feared that he was going to take their kingdoms.
Contemporary accounts show a series of attacks and counter-attacks between the Urartians and local kingdoms.
Prior to this, the peninsula consisted of often mutually antagonistic kingdoms, duchies, city-states, and principalities.
They imported chariots and horses from Egypt and traded them on to the Neo-Hittite and Aramean kingdoms to their north and northeast.
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One of the most powerful Aramean kingdoms in this period was the kingdom of Damascus.
He accomplished this largely with local levies and displayed Roman power to the eastern kingdoms, including Parthia.
Seth and Bridget were standing in one corner of the ballroom socializing with the other princes and princesses from other kingdoms.
The backing of the throne had an image of him reuniting the two kingdoms of Upper and Lower Kemet.
With the marriage both kingdoms were united, but there were some who disliked the marriage.
Through the ages trade has occurred between clans, tribal chieftainships, and kingdoms.
The second is mundane astrology, concerning the rise and fall of kingdoms, battles, revolutions, etc.
Knights of both kingdoms clashed for what seemed like half a day, and in the end, the remaining Sunfall knights fell back and retreated.
This happened in Spain under the Visigoths and in Italy under the Ostrogoths, but both those kingdoms were swept away.
After his sudden death in 323 B.C., Hellenistic culture reigned here as Armenia was spilt into three kingdoms.
It was the fatal mistake of the medieval church to confuse and confound the two kingdoms.
Not all the Reformers were willing to make the clear separation between the worldly and the spiritual kingdoms that Luther made.
The Kingdom Animalia, from sponges to elephants, velvet worms to octopuses, mud dragons to tardigrades, is the best studied and most widely appreciated of the kingdoms.
His position once secured, his conduct in all the kingdoms except Northumbria and Wessex seems to have been more that of a direct ruler than a remote overlord.
To the south, in England, heathenism still reigned in the various kingdoms ruled by the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons, and pagan gods were worshipped.
The cattle-herding Xhosa tribes who lived around Lambasi, divided into small kingdoms, had seen enough shipwrecks to know that they might find treasure and useful material.
Once again at the level of the overkingship, as opposed to the smaller kingdoms, there was no continuity of existence and association with a particular family.
Many Beninese cultural traditions are derived from ancient kingdoms.
This implies that everything shares the same energy, allowing us to treat human diseases with medicines from plant, mineral and animal kingdoms from around the world.
The Salic law was also implicitly introduced in Navarre in 1620 when Louis XIII, king of France and Navarre proclaimed a perpetual union of the two kingdoms.
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Smaller kingdoms changed hands frequently, and adventurers were princelings for a day before they were displaced by others more courageous or unscrupulous.
When styles of conflict have changed throughout history, kingdoms, empires and nations have been faced with the difficult task of adapting or dying.
Who knows what life was like among, say, the Chippewa in the unimaginable lands to the west at that time, never mind the multitudinous kingdoms of the east.
At the level of scientific reasoning the two kingdoms do not intersect.
Comprised of seven kingdoms and two regions, it is the northernmost continent in this world.
The predominant pattern is for a successful king's power to fade in old age and for kingly pre-eminence to pass to the ruler of one of the other kingdoms.
Of the five small kingdoms or princely states which the author explores in this fascinating Himalayan odyssey, only Nepal and Bhutan are fully independent nations.
The Carolingian empire was divided into many smaller kingdoms and duchies.
Luther's theology of two kingdoms creates a dilemma for those theologically and confessionally orthodox Lutherans who wish to oppose women's ordination.
The break up of the Vijayanagara empire had resulted in the satraps setting up their own separate kingdoms and the Brahmins were sought to legitimatise their rebel rule.
Some purport to function as collections for the Frankish and Visigothic kingdoms, like the Vetus Gallica of c.700 or the Hispana, c.700, respectively.
Thihicarm armories have their works here, the best in a dozen kingdoms.
Building large states or polities was difficult under those political conditions, but a number of African chiefs founded national kingdoms, including King Shaka of the Zulu.
Most promising seemed the suggestion that he should marry Mary, queen of Scots, five years his junior, with the prospect of uniting the two kingdoms.
The centre of Sinhalese and Buddhist civilization gradually shifted south-westwards, and political power was divided between a number of kingdoms.
Historical sources indicate that while they controlled their own hinterlands, the numerous kingdoms often came under varying degrees of external rule.
An appropriate metaphor might be a game of billiards or snooker, events in the three kingdoms so many balls bouncing off one another and occasionally falling into pockets.
The site was considered the capital of Ireland, when it became the seat of the High King, who would rule the dozens of kingdoms that had emerged across the country.
There were several thinly veiled invitations to accept other kingdoms hospitality, a bribe, and also something I'm pretty sure was a sexual come-on from a female guildmaster.
His father had read him stories, like King Arthur, epics of kingdoms won and lost.
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The Indian early medieval age, 600 CE to 1200 CE, is defined by regional kingdoms and cultural diversity.
The sultanate's raiding and weakening of the regional kingdoms of South India paved the way for the indigenous Vijayanagara Empire.
The kingdoms of Egypt and Iraq were seen as vital to maintaining strong British influence in the region.
Britain's close relationship with the two Hashemite kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan were of particular concern to Nasser.
In the east were the Picts, whose kingdoms eventually stretched from the river Forth to Shetland.
The Act was thus part of a long debate within the three kingdoms about the relationship of king to law and vice versa.
The interests of kingdoms of this era were not restricted to their immediate vicinity.
Incursions from the English and Normans also amplified divisions between the kingdoms.
In 1932 the two kingdoms of the Hejaz and Nejd were united as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
One of these small Amorite kingdoms founded in 1894 BC contained the then small administrative town of Babylon within its borders.
In the early 15th century, Ethiopia sought to make diplomatic contact with European kingdoms for the first time since Aksumite times.
The establishment of the Kalmar Union in 1397 united the kingdoms of Norway, Denmark and Sweden.
Possession of Iceland passed from the Norwegian Empire to the Kalmar Union in 1415, when the kingdoms of Norway, Denmark and Sweden were united.
After Roman government in the area collapsed, the Franks expanded their territories in numerous kingdoms.
Powerful local nobles turned their cities, counties and duchies into private kingdoms, that felt little sense of obligation to the emperor.
The Acts of Union 1707 merged the kingdoms of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain, under the sovereignty of the British Crown.
In the early Middle Ages, what is now Scotland was divided between four major ethnic groups and kingdoms.
These threats may have speeded a long term process of gaelicisation of the Pictish kingdoms, which adopted Gaelic language and customs.
Their leaders now established their own independent kingdoms which expanded rapidly to the west and north.
King Edward was enraged by such defiance, making hostilities between the kingdoms inevitable.
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High Kings from the northern branch ruled various kingdoms in what eventually became the province of Ulster.
Even at the time the law tracts were being written these petty kingdoms were being swept away by newly emerging dynasties of dynamic overkings.
In terms of troop numbers, it was the largest battle fought between the two kingdoms.
Colonizers came from European kingdoms that had highly developed military, naval, governmental, and entrepreneurial capabilities.
Martin Luther's doctrine of the two kingdoms separated state and church in principle.
It led to just over four centuries of bickering between small kingdoms and petty states.
At times some of the kingdoms were united by a ruler who was an overlord, while wars occurred between others.
He became the most renowned teacher in all of the three kingdoms of Britain.
This is likely to be an allusion to Ealhmund, and may imply that Ealhmund had a local overlordship of the southeastern kingdoms.
If so, Offa's intervention was probably intended to gain control of this relationship and take over the dominance of the associated kingdoms.
His brothers Cadell and Merfyn received large estates as well, sometimes said to include the kingdoms of Ceredigion and Powys, respectively.
The brothers are recorded as cooperating closely against the rulers of the remaining lesser kingdoms of Wales.
The origins of the various redactions are reflected in the relative position of the rulers of the Welsh kingdoms.
The Giudicato of Arborea, having Oristano as its capital, had a longer life compared to the other kingdoms.
In 884, Charles the Fat reunited all the kingdoms for the last time, but he died in 888 and the empire immediately split up.
As a result, the Armorican peninsula was renamed Brittany, Celtic culture was revived and independent petty kingdoms arose in this region.
Pepin's son, Charlemagne, reunited the Frankish kingdoms and built a vast empire across Western and Central Europe.
Members of the Bonaparte family were appointed as monarchs in some of the newly established kingdoms.
These three kingdoms defined the political division of Francia until the rise of the Carolingians and even thereafter.
Chlothar then took control of the other two kingdoms and set up a united Frankish kingdom with its capital in Paris.
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The period between 1100 and 1400 was characterised by internal power struggles and competition among the Nordic kingdoms.
The sea was the easiest way of communication between the Norwegian kingdoms and the outside world.
Most of the English kingdoms, being in turmoil, could not stand against the Vikings.
In 832, a Viking fleet of about 120 invaded kingdoms on Ireland's northern and eastern coasts.
In the traditions relating to the settlement of Brittany by the Bretons there are several kingdoms of this kind.
The Norse established independent kingdoms in Dublin, Waterford, Wexford, Cork and Limerick.
These kingdoms did not survive the subsequent Norman invasions, but the towns continued to grow and prosper.
Numerous small Frankish kingdoms existed during the 5th century around Cologne, Tournai, Le Mans, Cambrai and elsewhere.
Javan rice terraces have existed for more than a millennium, and had supported ancient agricultural kingdoms.
Ancient kingdoms such as the Tarumanagara, Mataram, and Majapahit were dependent on rice yields and tax.
These organisms are classified as a kingdom, Fungi, which is separate from the other eukaryotic life kingdoms of plants and animals.
Shaivism was the dominant religious tradition of many southern Indian Hindu kingdoms during the 1st century.
In the west, the European kingdoms and movements were in a movement of reformation and expansion.
The Cape of Good Hope is an integral part of the Cape Floristic Kingdom, the smallest but richest of the world's six floral kingdoms.
Vikings traded with the Gaelic, Pictish, Brythonic and Saxon kingdoms in between raiding them for slaves.
Under Alfonso X, most sessions of the Cortes of both kingdoms were held jointly.
In the previous kingdoms, positions in national institutions were filled by educated gentlemen.
His aims of union did not work and the Spanish Crown continued as a confederation of kingdoms.
Southeast Asian kingdoms included tusks of the Indian elephant in their annual tribute caravans to China.
In the Apennine peninsula's south, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was formed in 1816 by unifying the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily.
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Before then the Germanic kingdoms had frequently conquered each other, but none had adopted the title of King of another people.
The Germanic Iron Age begins with the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Celtic and Germanic kingdoms in Western Europe.
In the 10th century independent kingdoms were established in Central Europe including Poland and the newly settled Kingdom of Hungary.
The Burgundian kingdom was made part of the Merovingian kingdoms, and the Burgundians themselves were by and large absorbed as well.
It concerns the armed conflicts of the Dacian tribes and their kingdoms in the Balkans.
The Kingdom of the Alans was among the first Barbarian kingdoms to be founded.
The territory of Bessarabia was encompassed in dozens of ephemeral kingdoms which were disbanded when another wave of migrants arrived.
The period between 1100 and 1400 was characterized by internal power struggles and competition among the Nordic kingdoms.
Theoderic the Great sought alliances with, or hegemony over, the other Germanic kingdoms in the west.
Charles recognised Chilperic as king of the Franks in return for legitimate royal affirmation of his own mayoralty over all the kingdoms.
Francia, ruled by the Merovingians, was the most powerful of the kingdoms that succeeded the Western Roman Empire.
It came up repeatedly over the succeeding decades until the grandsons of Charlemagne created distinct sovereign kingdoms.
In 832, a Viking fleet of about 120 ships under Turgesius invaded kingdoms on Ireland's northern and eastern coasts.
Experts believe it may also yield clues as to the boundary of the ancient Anglo Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria.
He takes greatness of kingdoms according to bulk and currency, and not after their intrinsic value.
The lords of the secret council were likewise made conservators of the peace of the two kingdoms.
By inheritance in 1603, James VI, King of Scots, became King of England and King of Ireland, thus forming a personal union of the three kingdoms.
The kingdoms of Gwynedd, Powys, Dyfed and Seisyllwg, Morgannwg and Gwent emerged as independent Welsh successor states.
Both kingdoms fell in the great assaults of the Danish Viking armies in the 9th century.
As there was not a set eastern limit to the Tordesillas line, both kingdoms organized meetings to resolve the issue.
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The kingdom was established as a merger of a large number of petty kingdoms.
On 1 May 1707, under the terms of the Acts of Union 1707, the kingdoms of England and Scotland united to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.
The kings of Wessex became increasingly dominant over the other kingdoms of England during the 9th century.
This continued after the 1801 union between the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Months of fierce debate in both capital cities and throughout both kingdoms followed.
The prospect of a union of the kingdoms was deeply unpopular among the Scottish population at large, and talk of an uprising was widespread.
In 1707, the two kingdoms were united to form the Kingdom of Great Britain under the terms of the Acts of Union.
From the 5th century AD, north Britain was divided into a series of petty kingdoms.
On 1 January 1801, the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland were merged to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
These considerations led Great Britain to decide to attempt merger of the two kingdoms and their parliaments.
The Lombard state was relatively Romanized, at least when compared to the Germanic kingdoms in northern Europe.
Bede is also concerned to show the unity of the English, despite the disparate kingdoms that still existed when he was writing.
This meant that in discussing conflicts between kingdoms, the date would have to be given in the regnal years of all the kings involved.
At the beginning of the 7th century, the two kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira were unified.
Northumbria was originally formed from the union of two independent kingdoms, Bernicia and Deira.
Northumbria was disputed between the emerging kingdoms of England and Scotland.
The relationship between the Roman Empire and the kingdoms of ancient Ireland is unclear.
All of the Irish kingdoms had their own kings but were nominally subject to the High King.
Fearing this increasingly unstable situation, several small Greek kingdoms sent delegations to Rome to seek an alliance.
While some kingdoms were defeated militarily and occupied, others remained nominally independent as allies of the Roman empire.
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The indigenous inhabitants of Mauretania developed kingdoms of their own, independent of the Vandals, with strong Roman traits.
There they set up their own small kingdoms and the Breton language developed there from Brittonic Insular Celtic rather than Gaulish or Frankish.
It includes a number of independent kingdoms and other smaller territories and assigns a number of hides to each one.
They were, however, able to avoid the more substantial control which Mercia exerted over smaller kingdoms.
Over the following years, what became known as the Great Heathen Army overwhelmed the kingdoms of Northumbria and East Anglia.
Although the kingdom of Essex was one of the kingdoms of the Heptarchy, its history is not well documented.
The heavily forested Weald made expansion difficult but also provided some protection from invasion by neighbouring kingdoms.
Sussex seems to have had a greater degree of decentralisation than other kingdoms.
With all the other kingdoms having fallen to the Vikings, Wessex alone was still resisting.
But he remained a resented outsider, and the northern British kingdoms preferred to ally with the pagan Norse of Dublin.
The term Scandinavia always includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
The three Scandinavian kingdoms joined in 1387 in the Kalmar Union under Queen Margaret I of Denmark.
Scandinavia has, despite many wars over the years since the formation of the three kingdoms, been politically and culturally close.
He also gave unconquered kingdoms such as Cork, Limerick and Ulster to his men and left the Normans carving their lands in Ireland.
Her dowry, upon the agreement between the two kingdoms, was 600,000 crowns.
Joanna of Castile and Philip immediately added to their titles the kingdoms of Indies, Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea.
Although described as a Union of Crowns, prior to the Acts of Union of 1707, the crowns of the two separate kingdoms had rested on the same head.
He made many contacts and friends, not only in Northumbria and the other English kingdoms, but also in Gaul, Frisia, and Italy.
Charles hoped to unite the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland into a new single kingdom, fulfilling the dream of his father.
James fled to France once more, departing from Kinsale, never to return to any of his former kingdoms.
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From the second half of the 17th century onwards, a time of political and religious turmoil existed in the kingdoms.
The foundations of the British Empire were laid when England and Scotland were separate kingdoms.
The settlement soon became a flourishing river port and crossroads, giving rise to vast cotton kingdoms along the river.
Much of the scholarly and written culture of the new kingdoms was also based on Roman intellectual traditions.
The establishment of new kingdoms often meant some growth for the towns chosen as capitals.
Ireland was divided into even smaller political units, usually known as tribal kingdoms, under the control of kings.
The long conflicts of the period strengthened royal control over their kingdoms and were extremely hard on the peasantry.
The Republic's focus now was only to the Hellenistic kingdoms of Greece and revolts in Hispania.
By the end of the sixth century, larger kingdoms had become established on the south or east coasts.
Several of these kingdoms may have had as their initial focus a territory based on a former Roman civitas.
By the middle of the 8th century, other kingdoms of southern Britain were also affected by Mercian expansionism.
A 'good' king was a generous king who through his wealth won the support which would ensure his supremacy over other kingdoms.
The kings of these small kingdoms issued written Laws, one of earliest of which is that attributed to Ethelbert, king of Kent, ca.
Meanwhile, Gaelic Ireland was made up of several kingdoms, with a High King often claiming lordship over them.
In the early 17th century, the last Gaelic kingdoms in Ireland fell under English control.
The war ended in defeat for the Irish Gaelic alliance, and brought an end to the independence of the last Irish Gaelic kingdoms.
During Wilfrid's lifetime Britain and Ireland consisted of a number of small kingdoms.
Between the Humber and Forth the English had formed into two main kingdoms, Deira and Bernicia, often united as the Kingdom of Northumbria.
A number of Celtic kingdoms also existed in this region, including Craven, Elmet, Rheged, and Gododdin.
Wilfrid's network of monasteries extended across at least three of the kingdoms of England in his day.
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The small kingdoms in Southern Persia voluntarily accepted Mongol supremacy.
Military counts in the Late Empire and the Germanic successor kingdoms were often appointed by a dux and later by a king.
In 1706, the Parliaments of England and Scotland passed the Acts of Union, uniting the two kingdoms in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
The Union of the Crowns had begun a process that would lead to the eventual unification of the two kingdoms.
However, certain aspects of the former independent kingdoms remained separate.
However, the lands to the south and east of this waste, were controlled by smaller, nameless British kingdoms.
In the early years of the 7th century, Kent and East Anglia were the leading English kingdoms.
Regardless of the exact number of kingdoms and their names, the Pictish nation was not a united one.
Diarmait and the Normans seized Leinster within weeks and launched raids into neighbouring kingdoms.
The alliance was renewed between the two kingdoms in 1371, with the embassy of the Bishop of Glasgow and the Lord of Galloway to France.
Historians have widely debated the nature of the relationship between these African kingdoms and the European traders.
Like the Bambara Empire to the east, the Khasso kingdoms depended heavily on the slave trade for their economy.
These states consisted of kingdoms, grand duchies, duchies, principalities, free Hanseatic cities and one imperial territory.
Any firm distinction between the kingdoms of Eastern Francia and Germany is to some extent the product of later retrospection.
Additionally, minor Germanic tribes, like the Vandals, the Suebi, and the Visigoths established kingdoms in Hispania.
The Holy Roman Empire became eventually composed of four kingdoms and numerous other territories.
Experts believe it may also yield clues as to the boundary of the Anglo Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria.
After the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, tribal kingdoms were again established over much of Europe in the wake of the Migration period.
Europe fell into political anarchy, with many warring kingdoms and principalities.
They overthrew the Aztec civilization by allying with natives who had been subjugated by more powerful neighbouring tribes and kingdoms.
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Iberian kingdoms developed expertise in both cannon manufacturing and shipbuilding.
These lands were for the next seven centuries to constitute the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily.
Nevertheless, by 1294, the year that Kublai died, the Thai kingdoms of Sukhothai and Chiang Mai had become vassal states of the Yuan dynasty.
The empires of Assyria, Babylon, Carthage and Rome exacted tribute from their provinces and subject kingdoms.
Some list of tributaries of imperial China encompasses suzerain kingdoms from China in East Asia has been prepared.
The foreign states received gifts in return to build tributary relationships between the Ming Dynasty and the foreign kingdoms.
He conquered Coimbra and attacked the taifa kingdoms, often demanding the tributes known as parias.
Alfonso's more aggressive policy towards the taifas worried the rulers of those kingdoms, who called on the African Almoravids for help.
In the 14th century the Jolof Empire grew powerful, having united Cayor and the kingdoms of Baol, Sine, Saloum, Waalo, Futa Tooro and Bambouk.
French colonists progressively invaded and took over all the kingdoms except Sine and Saloum under Governor Louis Faidherbe.
As an independent third party, the Pope would, on occasion, be asked to arbitrate disputes between kingdoms.
Also Nordic kingdoms and England, required passage rates, monopolies on fishing and blocked foreign ships in their neighboring seas.
Numerous kingdoms and empires emerged over the centuries, of which the most powerful was the Kingdom of Ashanti.
After the revolt, Ibadin established a number of theocratic tribal kingdoms, most of which had short and troubled histories.
The division of the world, however, was not the main issue that poisoned relations between the Iberian kingdoms.
With the union of Castile and Aragon in 1469, these kingdoms set their sights on annexing Granada.
The caciquedoms were tributary kingdoms, with payment consisting of harvests.
Her reforms and those she made with her husband had an influence that extended well beyond the borders of their united kingdoms.
Both Isabella and Ferdinand established very few new governmental and administrative institutions in their respective kingdoms.
Ancient India, with its kingdoms and dynasties, had a long tradition of diplomacy.
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These kingdoms were coastal thalassocracies based on trade with neighboring Asian political entities at that time.
In addition, other kingdoms like the Wangdom of Pangasinan had become tributary states to China and were largely Sinified kingdoms.
Despite the thalassocracy of the sultanates, Borneo's interior region remained free from the rule of any kingdoms.
Philip carried several titles as heir to the Spanish kingdoms and empire, including Prince of Asturias.
To the south, various small kingdoms far beyond the Yangtze River Valley were formally incorporated into the empire.
It also brought the Han into contact with kingdoms in Southeast Asia, introducing diplomacy and trade.
Northern China fragmented into a series of independent kingdoms, most of which were founded by Xiongnu, Xianbei, Jie, Di and Qiang rulers.
Like most other regions of the world, slavery and forced labor existed in many kingdoms and societies of Africa for thousands of years.
Nigeria has been home to a number of kingdoms and tribal states over the millennia.
The Yoruba kingdoms of Ife and Oyo in southwestern Nigeria became prominent in the 12th and 14th centuries, respectively.
This arbitral jurisdiction of the bishop was not recognized in the new Teutonic kingdoms.
The political atmosphere in South India shifted from smaller kingdoms to large empires with the ascendancy of Badami Chalukyas.
In the north, the Rajput kingdoms remained the dominant force in Western and Central India.
There were several other kingdoms which ruled over parts of India in the later medieval period prior to the British occupation.
Trade however continued to flourish among the kingdoms of Africa, Middle East, India, China and Southeast Asia.
From around 550 BCE, many independent kingdoms and republics known as the Mahajanapadas were established across the subcontinent.
The barbarian invaders formed their own new kingdoms in the remains of the Western Roman Empire.
In what is now modern Zimbabwe various kingdoms such as the Kingdom of Mutapa descended from the Kingdom of Mapungubwe in modern South Africa.
Postclassical Korea saw the end of the Three Kingdoms era, the three kingdoms being Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla.
The South African Kingdom of Zimbabwe gave way to smaller kingdoms such as Mutapa, Butua, and Rozwi.
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Akbar was a successful warrior who also forged alliances with several Hindu Rajput kingdoms.
Many of the empire's elites now sought to control their own affairs, and broke away to form independent kingdoms.
Vast artificial reservoirs were also built by various ancient kingdoms in Bengal, Assam and Cambodia.
Various petty kingdoms existed throughout the area now known as Denmark for many years.
In 1639, with war between the two kingdoms looming, the castle was refortified using stone from the cathedral cloisters.
The fall of Poland left Russia the sole representative of the Sclav among the kingdoms of the earth.
After Buddha Shakyamuni passed into Mahaparinirvana, his relics were divided among his disciples and Buddhist kingdoms.
What started out as simple cells ultimately transformed into slime molds, frogs, elephants, humans and the rest of our planet's living kingdoms.
During the sixteenth century, Spanish kings were almost superhumans, born with wisdom and an innate understanding of the needs of their kingdoms.
Only the island state of Bali and neighboring areas remained as traditionally Hinduized kingdoms in the Indonesian Archipelago.
Enthoven's later, more detailed account of the Kapuas Malay kingdoms also cites numerous rulers and nobles with abang honorifics.
He covers piecing together the picture, prehistory and protohistory, the kingdoms of Arabia Felix, and religion and material culture.
The Kadambas were contemporaries of the Western Ganga Dynasty and together they formed the earliest native kingdoms to rule the land with absolute autonomy.
This list of kings and queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, one of the petty kingdoms to rule a portion of modern England.
To deal with the threat that the two kingdoms posed to the English Commonwealth, the Rump Parliament sent a parliamentary army under Cromwell to invade and subdue Ireland.
He showed little interest in his other two kingdoms, Scotland and Ireland.
The internal conflicts among Indian kingdoms gave opportunities to the European traders to gradually establish political influence and appropriate lands.
The medieval era Buddhistic law of Myanmar and Thailand are also ascribed to Manu, and the text influenced past Hindu kingdoms in Cambodia and Indonesia.
The kingdoms of Scotland and England were individual sovereign states, with their own parliaments, judiciary, and laws, though both were ruled by James in personal union.
On 1 May 1707, under the Acts of Union, two of her realms, the kingdoms of England and Scotland, united as a single sovereign state known as Great Britain.

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