Sentence examples for dynasty from high-quality English sources.

• (See Saxon dynasty.)

• It was China’s last dynasty.

• The dynasty ended in 256 bce.

• The dynasty was named after Sāsān, an ancestor of Ardashīr.

• A change was to come with the advent of the Kushite (Nubian) kings of the 25th dynasty.

• Sena dynasty, Indian dynasty ruling in Bengal in the 11th and 12th centuries ce.

• Alaungpaya Dynasty, also called Konbaung, the last ruling dynasty (1752–1885) of Myanmar (Burma).

• The Shang dynasty was the reputed successor to the quasi-legendary first dynasty, the Xia (c. 2070–c. 1600 bce).

Use dynasty in a sentence.

• The Umayyad dynasty lasted less than a century in Damascus before it was driven out in 750 by the ʿAbbāsid dynasty.

• Chosŏn dynasty, also called Yi dynasty, the last and longest-lived imperial dynasty (1392–1910) of Korea.

• Arsacid dynasty, also called Arshakuni, (247 bc–ad 224), ancient Iranian dynasty that founded and ruled the Parthian empire.

• Changamire Dynasty, dynasty that ruled a vast area in central Africa between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers (now in Zimbabwe).

• In the 2nd dynasty, titles and names of offerings appear, and, at the end of this dynasty, sentences occur for the first time.

• The dynasty, like the previous Slave dynasty, was of Turkish origin, though the Khaljī tribe had long been settled in Afghanistan.

• It became the imperial dynasty of all of China in 1644 after the reigning Ming dynasty called upon the Manchus for military assistance.

• The Han dynasty was the second great imperial dynasty of China (206 BCE–220 CE), after the Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BCE).

dynasty sentence examples

• Song dynasty, Wade-Giles romanization Sung, (960–1279), Chinese dynasty that ruled the country during one of its most brilliant cultural epochs.

• Han dynasty, Wade-Giles romanization Han, the second great imperial dynasty of China (206 bce–220 ce), after the Zhou dynasty (1046–256 bce).

• The original version probably ended before the 3rd dynasty of Ur, but later scribes brought it up to date by adding that dynasty as well as the dynasty of Isin.

• Yuan dynasty, Wade-Giles romanization Yüan, also called Mongol dynasty, dynasty established by Mongol nomads that ruled portions and eventually all of China from the early 13th century to 1368.