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Spartans proceeded to attack their neighbors to acquire helots (slaves) to farm the land while they concentrated on military matters. They later joined the...

provincial administrations also. Appointments to local office were mostly hereditary anyway, but now it came to be treated as a formal property right that...

and the plebeians, the broad mass of peasant citizens. One's class was hereditary, meaning that even if one was lucky enough to be one of the few plebeians...

Governments soon fell into a type of system known as a monarchy, or rule by hereditary leaders (such as kings or princes). The reason for this was two-fold:...

had been assigned to Fuhito, and since office holding was essentially hereditary, baring political disaster a family was going to remain at roughly the...

distinguished from notarial writings (Scots law). Livery Company - Similar to a 'Guild'. Livestock - the animals on a farm. Loan - before the enclosing of fields...

slavery rare, serfs allegiance becomes as important as the recognition and hereditary rights (again in line with previous Roman practices). Religion was used...

leader, king of state, and High King of the civilization or race. The law of hereditary – property, and land rights, were written in his name as a legal right...

and a sultry kind of nature poetry. Eben's Oedipus complex, the effects of farm life, and an inhibitive religion are fused into a tragic unit...'Desire under...

11th and 12th centuries, these lands, or fiefs, came to be considered hereditary and in most areas they were no longer divisible between all the heirs...

Within three months, it sold 100,000 copies. Paine attacked the idea of a hereditary monarchy, declaring that one honest man was worth more to society than...

general subjects (such as the economy and the calendar), histories of hereditary houses and states, biographies on individuals arranged in roughly chronological...

slavery rare, serfs allegiance becomes as important as the recognition and hereditary rights (again in line with previous Roman practices). Religion was used...

taxes in favor of the Golden Horde. The fourth form of government – a hereditary monarchy was created in Euro-Russia when a successor received a throne...

colony. One of its prominent features was a failed attempt to create a hereditary nobility. One of the colony’s least appealing aspects was the early trade...

highest class were the pīpiltin or nobility. Originally this status was not hereditary, although the sons of pillis had access to better resources and education...

your mother's genes. You obviously don't have her physical genes. The Hereditary Gene: "Gene" might refer to a unit of heredity, like blue eyes. This might...

colony. One of its prominent features was a failed attempt to create a hereditary nobility. One of the colony’s least appealing aspects was the early trade...

hypothesis was that eminence in the arts, sciences, letters, and law had its roots in the hereditary transmission of microlevel sensory and perceptual processes...

Shrine was in ancient times associated with the Mononobe clan, whose hereditary responsibility was the manufacture of weaponry, and it was used as an...