Examples of Table of Ranks in the following topics:
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- Peter's distrust of the elitist and anti-reformist boyars culminated in 1722 with the creation of the Table of Ranks: a formal list of ranks in the Russian military, government, and royal court.
- The Table of Ranks established a complex system of titles and honorifics, each classed with a number denoting a specific level of service or loyalty to the Tsar.
- Previously, high-ranking state positions were hereditary, but with the establishment of the Table of Ranks, anyone, including a commoner, could work their way up the bureaucratic hierarchy with sufficient hard work and skill.
- With minimal modifications, the Table of Ranks remained in effect until the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- The establishment of the Table of Ranks was among the most audacious of Peter's reforms, a direct blow to the power of the boyars which changed Russian society significantly.
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- Peter's distrust of the elitist and
anti-reformist boyars culminated in 1722 with the creation of
the Table of Ranks: a formal list of ranks in the Russian military,
government and royal court.
- The Table of Ranks established a complex system of
titles and honorifics, each classed with a number denoting a specific level of
service or loyalty to the Tsar.
- Previously, high-ranking state positions were hereditary, but with the
establishment of the Table of Ranks, anyone, including a commoner, could work
their way up the bureaucratic hierarchy with sufficient hard work and skill.
- The traditional leader of the Church was the Patriarch of Moscow.
- The fortress was the first brick and stone building of the new projected capital city of Russia and the original citadel of what would eventually be St.
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- They were initially built of wood, then of stone.
- Furniture consisted of wooden benches, long tables, cupboards, and pantries.
- Nobles were stratified; kings and the highest-ranking nobility controlled large numbers of commoners and large tracts of land, as well as other nobles.
- Most courts featured a strict order of precedence, often involving royal and noble ranks, orders of chivalry, and nobility.
- One of the major markers of a court was ceremony.
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- The king was now not only being called "Lord of the Four Quarters (of the Earth)", but also elevated to the ranks of the dingir (gods), with his own temple establishment.
- Other daughters were married to rulers of peripheral parts of the Empire (Urkesh and Marhashe).
- The water table in this region was very high and replenished regularly—by winter storms in the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates from October to March and from snow-melt from March to July.
- Enheduanna, the "wife (high priestess) of Nanna, the Sumerian moon god, and daughter of King Sargon" of the temple of Sin at Ur, lived c. 2285–2250 BCE and is the first poet in history whom we know by name.
- Clay seals that took the place of stamps bore the names of Sargon and his son.
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- Born to a family of low status in the Roman province of Dalmatia, Diocletian rose through the ranks of the military to become cavalry commander to the Emperor Carus.
- In 305, the senior emperors jointly abdicated and retired, allowing Constantius and Galerius to be elevated in rank to Augusti.
- Their Caesares, Galerius and Constantius Chlorus, were both raised to the rank of Augustus, and two new Caesares were appointed: Maximinus (Caesar to Galerius) and Flavius Valerius Severus (Caesar to Constantius).
- By 308 there were therefore no fewer than four claimants to the rank of Augustus (Galerius, Constantine, Maximian and Maxentius), and only one to that of Caesar (Maximinus).
- This agreement proved disastrous: by 308 Maxentius had become de facto ruler of Italy and Africa even without any imperial rank, and neither Constantine nor Maximinus—who had both been Caesares since 306 and 305 respectively—were prepared to tolerate the promotion of the Augustus Licinius as their superior.
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- The Roman Republic was composed of the senate, a number of legislative assemblies, and elected magistrates.
- Below the dictator was the censor (when they existed), the consuls, the
highest ranking ordinary magistrates.
- The ranking among both consuls
flipped every month, with one outranking the other.
- Finally, at the bottom of magistrate
rankings were the quaestors, who usually assisted the consuls in Rome and the
governors in the provinces with financial tasks.
- Each magistrate could
only veto an action that was taken by an equal or lower ranked magistrate.
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- The status of
freeborn Romans was established by their:
- census rank, which in turn was determined by the
individual’s wealth and political privilege;
- The status of woman’s citizenship
affected the citizenship of her offspring.
- Additionally, the phrase ex duobus civibus Romanis natos, translated to mean “children born
of two Roman citizens”, reinforces the importance of both parents’ legal status
in determining that of their offspring.
- Because it was defined mainly in terms of a lack
of legal rights and status, it was also not considered a permanent or
inescapable position.
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- Without the presence of the king, the old institution of the Hoftag, the assembly of the realm's leading men, deteriorated.
- The first class, the Council of Electors, consisted of the electors, or the princes who could vote for King of the Romans.
- Higher-ranking princes had individual votes, while lower-ranking princes were grouped into "colleges" by geography.
- The number of territories in the empire was considerable, rising to about 300 at the time of the Peace of Westphalia.
- The prince-electors, the highest-ranking noblemen of the empire, usually elected one of their peers as "King of the Romans," and he would later be crowned emperor by the pope.
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- Under the rule of the Habsburg dynasty, Spain became the first modern global empire and the most influential state in Europe only to be reduced to a second-rank power by the time the last Spanish Habsburg died in 1700.
- However, Spain as a unified state came into being de
jure only after the death of Charles II in 1700, the last ruler of
Spain of the Habsburg dynasty.
- Much
of the policy was conducted by the minister Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of
Olivares.
- Spain was essentially left leaderless and
was gradually being reduced to a second-rank power.
- Due to the
deaths of his half brothers, he was the last member of the male Spanish
Habsburg line.
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- It was the khanate ruled by the successors of Möngke Khan after the division of the Mongol Empire.
- The Rise of Kublai Khan and the the Mongol Invasions of China
- However, Kublai rejected plans to revive the Confucian imperial examinations and divided Yuan society into three, later four, classes, with the Han Chinese occupying the lowest rank.
- Kublai's Chinese advisers still wielded significant power in the government, but their official rank was nebulous.
- A portrait of the founder of Yuan dynasty, the Mongolian Kublai Khan.