Dynasties

The reason the Northern and Southern Dynasties had failed in their rule was that they allowed literary splendor to surpass real substance.

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Afterwards, because it was sanctioned by many of the successive dynasties Buddhism became widespread and had a tremendous impact on the development of Chinese thought, culture and art.

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It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. In its service new mercenaries sought to regiment the people, their labor, and their property.

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The Rostemids were one of the first Berber dynasties to rule North Africa.

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