Examples of Prince Shōtoku in the following topics:
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- The temple was originally commissioned by Prince Shōtoku of the Asuka Period (c. 538 to 710 CE); at the time it was called Ikaruga-dera (斑), a name that is still sometimes used.
- Yumedono, or the Hall of Dreams, is one of the main constructions in the Tō-in area, built on the ground which was once Prince Shōtoku's private palace, Ikaruga no miya.
- The hall acquired its present-day common name in the later Heian period, after a legend that says a Buddha arrived as Prince Shōtoku and meditated in a hall that existed here.
- Describe the creation, function, and characteristics of Prince Shōtoku's Hōryū-ji temple.
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- The second class, the Council of Princes, consisted of the other princes.
- Higher-ranking princes had individual votes, while lower-ranking princes were grouped into "colleges" by geography.
- Territories ruled by a hereditary nobleman, such as a prince, archduke, duke, or count.
- Such a cleric was a prince of the church.
- Examples are the prince-archbishoprics of Cologne, Trier and Mainz.
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- He wrote his most renowned work The Prince (Il Principe) in 1513.
- Machiavelli's best-known book, The Prince, contains several maxims concerning politics.
- Instead of the more traditional target audience of a hereditary prince, it concentrates on the possibility of a "new prince."
- To retain power, the hereditary prince must carefully balance the interests of a variety of institutions to which the people are accustomed.
- Machiavelli is a political philosophy infamous for his justification of violence in his treatise The Prince.
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- Ivan III Vasilyevich, also known as
Ivan the Great, was born in Moscow in 1440 and became Grand Prince of
Moscow in 1462.
- This new political formation was in contrast to centuries of local princes ruling over their regions relatively autonomously.
- Vasili III was the son of Sophia
Paleologue and Ivan the Great and the Grand Prince of Moscow from
1505 to 1533.
- He utilized a rebellious ally in the
form of the Lithuanian prince Mikhail Glinski to gain this major
victory.
- He held the title of Grand Prince of Moscow between 1462 and 1505.
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- For
the next three years the Mongol forces took over the major princely
cities of Kievan Rus’ and finally forced most principalities to
submit to foreign rule and taxation.
- The great ruler’s death in 1054 brought about
major power struggles between his sons and princes in outlying
provinces.
- By the 12th century, after years of princely fighting,
power was centered around smaller principalities.
- Then he split his army into smaller
units that tackled the princely polities one at a time.
- The princely regions were relatively unified into the 12th century but slowly separated and became more localized as fights over regions and power among the nobility continued.
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- With the death of Frederick I in 1713, Frederick William became King of Prussia, thus making young Frederick the crown prince.
- The king forced Frederick to watch the decapitation of Katte at Küstrin, leaving the crown prince to faint right before the fatal blow was struck.
- The crown prince returned to Berlin after finally being released from his tutelage at Küstrin a year later.
- The works of Niccolò Machiavelli, such as The Prince, were considered a guideline for the behavior of a king in Frederick's age.
- Prince Frederick was twenty-eight years of age when he acceded to the throne of Prussia.
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- Ivan I (also known as Ivan Kalita) was born around 1288 to the
Prince of Moscow, Daniil Aleksandrovich.
- He ascended to the seat of Prince of Moscow after
the death of his father, and then the death of his older brother
Yury.
- His other three rivals, all princes of
Tver, had previously been granted the title in prior years.
- However they were all subsequently deprived of
the title and all three aspiring princes also eventually ended up murdered.
- He was born around 1288 and died in either 1340 or 1341, still holding the title of Grand Prince of Vladimir.
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- These acquisitions eventually transformed the Hohenzollerns from a minor German princely family into one of the most important dynasties in Europe.
- Its ruling margraves were established as prestigious prince-electors in the Golden Bull of 1356, allowing them to vote in the election of the Holy Roman Emperor.
- Frederick VI of Nuremberg was officially recognized as Margrave and Prince-elector Frederick I of Brandenburg at the Council of Constance in 1415.
- When Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia, died without a son in 1618, his son-in-law John Sigismund, at the time the prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, inherited the Duchy of Prussia.
- As king was a more prestigious title than prince-elector, the territories of the Hohenzollerns became known as the Kingdom of Prussia, although their power base remained in Brandenburg.
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- The Rajputs were patrilineal clans, ruling a majority of Hindu princely states in northern India between the 6th and 20th centuries.
- The Rajputs rose to prominence between the 6th and 12th centuries, establishing the overwhelming majority of Hindu princely states in Rajasthan and Surashtra in northwestern India, which they ruled until the twentieth century.
- His grandson, Akbar (r. 1556-1605), retook the forts of Chittor and Ranthambore in 1568-69 and then made a settlement with all the Rajput princes of Rajasthan—with the exception of Mewar, which continued to hold out against Mughal lordship.
- At the end of the Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817-1818) between the Maratha Confederacy and the English East India Company, all the Rajput states in Rajasthan entered into a subsidiary alliance with the Company and became princely states under the British Raj.
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- The peace negotiations involved a total of 109 delegations representing European powers, including Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III, Philip IV of Spain, the Kingdom of France, the Swedish Empire, the Dutch Republic, the Princes of the Holy Roman Empire and sovereigns of the free imperial cities.
- All parties would recognize the Peace of Augsburg of 1555, in which each prince would have the right to determine the religion of his own state, the options being Catholicism, Lutheranism, and now Calvinism.
- Sweden received Western Pomerania, Wismar, and the Prince-Bishoprics of Bremen and Verden as hereditary fiefs, thus gaining a seat and vote in the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire.
- After the Peace of Westphalia, each prince of a given Imperial State would have the right to determine the religion of his own state, the options being Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Calvinism.