The book also provides a window on effective dynasty-building, a lesson that seems lost on her and much of the Lannister family, much to Tywin Lannister's despair.
Zhu then announced his intention of liberating all of China from Mongol rule and proclaimed a new dynasty effective with the beginning of 1368.
Although two more members of the Ṣafavid royal house sat on the throne, they were but puppets, and Ḥusayn's reign accordingly marked the effective end of the dynasty.
Deva Raya II (known as Gajabetekara or hunter of elephants) ascended the throne in 1424 and was the most effective of the Sangama dynasty rulers.
(Ay, whose brief reign brought about the effective end of the eighteenth dynasty, is elsewhere).
If Sir Walter Raleigh ever despaired of writing a true history of the Tudors, a dynasty that became so effective at suppressing information, so efficient at propaganda, Wroe's imaginative biography might have given him courage to start again.
These considerations, coupled with the probability that the position of king circulated between social or ritual units, suggest that, lacking a national bureaucracy or effective means of control over distance, the dynasty was relatively weak.
Although the island remained nominally under Chinese sovereignty, effective government was not reintroduced until the Tang dynasty (618 907 ce).
But the biggest shock is that a family dynasty that has proved so ruthlessly effective at capturing political power can otherwise prove so "surprisingly normal".
To fight nomadic raiders from the north and west, the Chinese of the Han Dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD) developed effective mounted units.
1206 or 1207 November 1249 Al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb, in full al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb (born 1206/07, Cairo, Egypt died November 1249) last effective ruler (reigned 1240 and 1245 49) of the Ayyūbid dynasty in Egypt.
