#dynasty a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
supertype: family_line__family__folk__kinfolk__kinsfolk__sept__phratry people descended from a common ancestor; "his family had lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
instance: Capet Carolingian_dynasty Liao_dynasty Han_dynasty House_of_Hanover Hapsburg Hohenzollern House_of_Lancaster Ming_dynasty Plantagenet_line Qing_dynasty Romanov Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Shang_dynasty Stuart Sung_dynasty Tang_dynasty House_of_Tudor Valois House_of_Windsor House_of_York Yuan_dynasty
subtype: Wei_dynasty__Wei any of several imperial dynasties of China ruling from 220 to 265 and from 386 to 556
subtype: Zhou_dynasty__Zhou__Chou__Chou_dynasty__Chow__Chow_dynasty the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism
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