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Of course, gifting a daughter or sister not only signaled the conquering ruler’s superiority, it also had the advantage of turning the conquered into long-term clients, at least as long as the marriage lasted. Trying to avoid client status, four of the societies (Egypt, Hawai’i, Aztec, and Inca) eventually opted for royal incest.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
The Arelius clan, in the ruins of their ancestral home, is still in mourning over the loss of their Monarch. Their
Will Wight • Cradle, Path of Gold: Box Set (Cradle Collection Book 2)
primogeniture.
John Hemming • The Conquest of the Incas
[ Tacitus, Hist. V. xiii. 3., mentions this ancient prediction, and its currency through the East, in nearly the same terms as Suetonius. The coming power is in both instances described in the plural number, profecti; "those shall come forth;" and Tacitus applies it to Titus as well as Vespasian. The prophecy is commonly supposed to have reference
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I focus on this film because it is typical of the military's sustained interest in hula, but exceptional in its professional production value.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
A few miles north of Greave’s Ash the indomitable twin-domed hillfort of Yeavering Bell looms imperiously over Glendale and the Milfield plain beyond. Here, an Iron Age fortress and summer camp were the focus of regional power and of a tribal cult. Yeavering’s chieftains seem to have retained their power and identity through the Roman centuries and
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But the earliest overtly kingly burials in England – the ship mounds at Taplow and Snape; barrows at Benty Grange in Derbyshire, Ashfield in Oxfordshire and Broomfield in Essex; the sunken chamber at Prittlewell – are not found before the end of the sixth century or the beginning of the seventh.16 Does this mean that, ceremonially, formal acts of
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the popular cultural phenomenon of hula also helped to broker this process of incorporation and integration.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Called “natural-born musicians,” Hawaiians were considered critical to military success.19