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Dynasty that ruled France during the Hundread Years' War
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Valois
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Rulers of the Archduchy of Austria
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Habsburg
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Native dynasty of Saxony
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Wettin
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Emperors of the HRE during the Investiture Controversy
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Hohenstaufen
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Rulers of Brandenburg-Prussia
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Hohenzollern
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At various points ruled Bavaria, the Palatinate and the Kalmar Union
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Wittelsbach
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Ruled Bohemia and fiefs in the Lowlands from 1310 to 1437
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Luxembourg
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Cadet branch of the Valois dynasty that established a massive state in Western Europe; its many holdings were inherited by the Habsburgs
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Bourgogne
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Rulers of a French county in the Pyrenees
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Foix
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Last Dukes of Brittany
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Dreux
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Kings of France and Navarre; established French absolutism
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Bourbon
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Beginning from low Corsican nobility, this great conqueror spread his brothers across Europe until being defeated and exiled
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Bonaparte
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Ruled both Byzantium and Montferrat
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Palaiologos
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Its member Alexios invited the men of the First Crusade to Byzantium
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Komnenos
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Under this dynasty Byzantium experienced a power restoration, culminating with Basil II
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Macedonian
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Kings of the Netherlands and the UK
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Orange-Nassau
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Scottish dynasty which inherited England and participated in its Civil War
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Stuart
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Italian dynasty that eventually united the peninsula in 1861
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Savoia
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Famous lords of Florence and Tuscany
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Medici
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Dukes of Milan at the onset of the Italian Wars
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Sforza
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Kings of Poland and Hungary; Grand Dukes of Lithuania; one died at Varna in 1444
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Jagiellon
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Original dynasty of Hungary
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Arpad
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Original dynasty of Bohemia
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Premyslid
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Original dynasty of Poland; then found refuge in Silesia
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Piast
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Dynasty of Sweden from 1517
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Vasa
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Dynasty of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon
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Trastamara
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Portuguese dynasty with ties to Burgundy
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Aviz
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A Portuguese branch of the Bourbons
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Braganca
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First Arab dynasty with a capital in Damascus
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Umayyad
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Greatest Arab dynasty with a capital in Baghdad
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Abbasid
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First Caliphs of Egypt
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Fatimid
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Dynasty of Salad al-Din, better known as Saladin
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Ayyubid
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Mongolian dynasty that founded a massive empire
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Genghisid
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A Turkic dynasty that conquered much of Persia, India and the Levant; defeated the Ottomans at Ankara in 1402
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Timurid
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Ruling dynasty of the Ottoman Empire
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Osman
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Dynasty that ruled the last Iberian Muslim stronghold - Granada
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Nasrid
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Moroccan dynasty that founded Marakkesh
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Almohad
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Greatesr Moroccan dynasty that ruled much of Al-Andalus
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Almoravid
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Ruling dynasty of China during the Century of Humiliation
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Qing
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Original dynasty of the Chinese Empire
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Han
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Chinese dynasty with the Mandate of Heaven in the 14th and 15th centuries
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Ming
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House of Peter the Great and Nicolas II
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Romanov
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Original dynasty of the Kyivan Rus' and Russia
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Rurikovich
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Founded the Serbian Empire
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Dusan
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Wallachian dynasty which resisted the Ottomans; example - Vlad the Impaler
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Draculesti
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Dynasty of Alexander and Philip of Macedon
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Argead
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Persian dynasty of Xerxes and Darius
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Achaemenid
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Muslim Persian dynasty established in the 16th century from the small state of Ardabil
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Safavid
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Sucessors of the Parthian Empire; destroyed by the early Arab conquests
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Sassanid
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Diadochi whose empire centered around Babylon
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Seleucid
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Diadochi which got Macedon
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Antigonid
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Diadochi which got Egypt
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Ptolemaic
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Original Bulgarian dynasty of Asparukh and Tervel
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