Sentence examples for previous dynasties from inspiring English sources

Initially, the Ṣafavid shahs continued the tradition of artistic patronage established by previous dynasties.

The billowing sleeves of robes worn in previous dynasties now fit tightly over the arms and were flared at the cuffs to protect the hands from the wind while riding.

The first provides for the renunciation of all political powers and governmental authority by the Throne for ever, but stipulates that it shall not be regarded as an enforced abdication as marked the endings of the previous dynasties.

Under the previous dynasties, ownership of land was concentrated in the hands of a few high-ranking bureaucrats, but Yi Sŏng-gye (who ruled as King Taejo) and his successors redistributed the land throughout the various levels of officialdom, creating a new aristocracy of scholar-officials called the yangban.

He also was an antiquarian and collector of old artworks from previous dynasties.

Ai Wei Wei's world is one in which national culture is seamlessly sewn into the fabric of layers of inter-dependence, from previous dynasties to today.

"When it comes to official histories, each dynasty usually writes the previous dynasty's history".

Shah Reza Khan, who started out as an officer in the Persian Cossacks Brigade, took over from the Qujars, the previous dynasty which had produced 7 shahs.

In ancient China, the arrival of a new dynasty was accompanied by "the rectification of names", a ceremony in which the sloppiness and erosion of meaning that had taken place under the previous dynasty were cleared up and language and its subjects correlated again.

The morale system in the game is similar to previous Dynasty Warrior games.

Shen Kuo noted that bamboos do not grow in Yanzhou, located in northern China, and he was puzzled during which previous dynasty the bamboos could have grown.