polity

Examples of polity in the following topics:

• The Mixtec

  • The major Mixtec polity was Tututepec, which rose to prominence in the 11th century under the leadership of Eight Deer Jaguar Claw.
  • This prominent leader was the only Mixtec king to ever unite the Highland and Lowland polities into a single Mixtec state.
  • At the height of the Aztec Empire (between 1428 and 1521 CE) many Mixtec polities were forced to pay tribute.
  • However, many Mixtec polities remained completely independent of the threatening empire, even as it expanded outward.
  • The historical geographic area inhabited by the Mixtec, including the important polities, such as Tututepec.

• Theories of Democracy

  • Theoretically, Aristotle contrasted rule by the many (democracy/polity) with rule by the few (oligarchy/aristocracy) and with rule by a single person (tyranny or autocracy/monarchy).
  • He also thought that there was a good and a bad variant of each system (he considered democracy to be the degenerate counterpart to polity).

• The Sultanates of Somalia

  • Lewis, the polity was governed by local dynasties consisting of Somalized Arabs or Arabized Somalis, who also ruled over the Sultanate of Mogadishu in the Benadir region to the south.
  • Ifat eventually disappeared as a distinct polity following the Conquest of Abyssinia led by Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, and the subsequent Oromo migrations into the area.
  • At its height, the polity controlled large parts of Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea.
  • During its existence, Adal had relations and engaged in trade with other polities in Northeast Africa, the Near East, Europe and South Asia.
  • The polity had all of the organs of an integrated modern state and maintained a robust trading network.

• The Decline of the Maya

  • A typical Classic Maya polity was a small hierarchical state (called an ajawil, ajawlel, or ajawlil) headed by a hereditary ruler known as an ajaw (later k'uhul ajaw).
  • Shortly after their first expeditions to the region in the 16th century, the Spanish attempted to subjugate the Maya polities several times.
  • Instead, Spanish forces needed to subdue the numerous independent Maya polities almost one by one, many of which kept up a fierce resistance.
  • The last Maya states (and the last indigenous holdouts from Spanish control in the Americas), the Itza polity of Tayasal and the Ko'woj city of Zacpeten remained independent of the Spanish until late in the 17th century.

• Current Topics in Income Distribution

  • According to PolitiFact and others, 400 Americans now own more than 50% of the net wealth of the United States.

• The Gorguryeo Tombs

  • Goguryeo was an active participant in the power struggle for control of the Korean peninsula and was also associated with the foreign affairs of neighboring polities in China and Japan.

• Sao

  • The Sao were made up of several patrilineal clans who were united into a single polity with one language, race, and religion.

• The Maya People

  • Beginning around 900 BCE, the Pacific coastal region fell under the dominance of the La Blanca statelet, which collapsed around 600 BCE, to be replaced by a polity centered around the El Ujuxte site.
  • These images indicate the Kaminaljuyu polity engaged in active warfare and dominated the Guatemalan highlands for centuries.

• The Mongol Threat

  • After the end of the unifying reign of Yaroslav the Wise, Kievan Rus’ became fragmented and power was focused on smaller polities.
  • Then he split his army into smaller units that tackled the princely polities one at a time.

• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

  • The Fall of the Western Roman Empire was the process of decline in the Western Roman Empire in which it failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided into several successor polities.
  • Invading "barbarians" had established their own polities on most of the area of the Western Empire.