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Merovingian Dynasty
Early Frankish ruling house that laid the foundations of post-Roman kingship in western Europe and ruled much of Gaul before the rise of the Carolingians.
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Carolingian Dynasty
Frankish and imperial ruling house associated with Charlemagne, the Carolingian Empire, and the reshaping of political order in early medieval Europe.
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Norman Dynasty
Ruling house of Norman origin that transformed England after the conquest of 1066 and played a major role in the political history of both England and Normandy.
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Ottonian Dynasty
Early medieval German royal and imperial house that helped define the political order of the East Frankish and early Holy Roman imperial world.
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Kingdom of England
Medieval and early modern kingdom that developed into one of the central political units of the British Isles and was transformed by the Norman Conquest.
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Wettin Dynasty
German dynastic house associated with Saxony and with several branches that played important roles in German and wider European politics.
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Capetian Dynasty
Major French royal house from which many later European dynasties descended, central to the long development of the French monarchy.
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Salian Dynasty
German royal and imperial house that ruled the Holy Roman Empire during a formative period of medieval kingship and church-state conflict.
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Hohenzollern Dynasty
German dynastic house that ruled Brandenburg-Prussia, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the German Empire and became central to modern German state formation.
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Hohenstaufen Dynasty
German royal and imperial house that ruled during a high medieval phase of the Holy Roman Empire and is associated with imperial ambition in both Germany and Italy.
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Plantagenet Dynasty
English royal house that ruled during the high and late Middle Ages and shaped the monarchy, aristocracy, and territorial politics of England and its continental possessions.
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Habsburg Dynasty
Major European dynastic house that ruled the Austrian lands, held the imperial title for much of the Holy Roman Empire's later history, and shaped the political order of central Europe for centuries.
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Valois Dynasty
Capetian cadet branch that ruled France during the later Middle Ages and Renaissance, including the eras of the Hundred Years' War and the French Wars of Religion.
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Stuart Dynasty
Scottish and later British royal house that came to the English throne in 1603 when James VI of Scotland became James I of England and that stood at the center of monarchy, union, civil war, and revolution in the seventeenth century.
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Tudor Dynasty
English and Welsh royal house that ruled during the Reformation, the consolidation of the early modern English monarchy, and the age of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.
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Bourbon Dynasty
Major European dynastic house whose branches ruled France, Spain, Naples, Sicily, Parma, and other territories, making it one of the most important ruling lineages of the early modern and modern period.
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British East India Company
Chartered company that became a major military, commercial, and territorial power in South Asia and the main British instrument of expansion in India.
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Kingdom of Great Britain
British state that fought the American War of Independence against the rebelling colonies and their European allies, including France.
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Hanover Dynasty
German dynastic house that supplied the monarchs of Great Britain and later the United Kingdom from George I to Queen Victoria.
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United States
Political entity that emerged from the American Revolution and became the beneficiary of French military and financial support during the war of independence.
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National Convention (France)
Revolutionary assembly that abolished the French monarchy, proclaimed the republic, and governed France during the most radical phase of the Revolution.
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Committee of Public Safety (France)
Emergency executive committee of the National Convention that became the central instrument of revolutionary government during the Terror.
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French Directory
Five-man executive regime that replaced the revolutionary government after the Terror and governed France during a period of instability before Napoleon's seizure of power.
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Holy Roman Empire
Multi-polity imperial structure in central Europe within which the Habsburgs often held the imperial title and which shaped the constitutional and political order of the region for centuries.
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French Monarchy
The dynastic and state institution whose crisis and collapse formed the central political problem of the early Revolution.
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Kingdom of Mysore
South Indian polity that emerged as a major military power under Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan and became a principal opponent of British expansion.