Later, we shall see what happened when an emperor took this idea too literally.

In 1472, the niece of the last Byzantine emperor, Sophia Palaiologina, married Ivan III, grand prince of Moscow, who began championing the idea of Russia being the successor to the Byzantine Empire.

The Fall of Constantinople and the death of the last Greek Orthodox Christian emperor contributed to this new idea of Moscow as ' New Rome ' and the seat of Orthodox Christianity.

" To help Romans adjust to the idea of having an oriental priest as emperor, Julia Maesa had a painting of Elagabalus in priestly robes sent to Rome and hung over a statue of the goddess Victoria in the Senate House.

This novel idea was turned down by the conservative emperor, who thought that he had already given the chancellor enough rewards.

His idea was not accepted, but it was introduced later under the emperor Franz Josef I in 1871.

The Zhou developed the idea of the Mandate of Heaven, by which was meant that the emperor ruled by the grace of Heaven, and that the replacement of the Shang by the Zhou was a legitimate act due to Heaven no longer favoring Shang because of Shang misrule under their last ruler.

According to Cyril Elgood ( PP. 41, 110 ) it was in India where the physician Hakim Abu ’ l-Fath Gilani ( d. 1588 ), at the court of the Mughal emperor Akbar I ( 1542-1605 AD ) invented the idea.

Hirohito was persistent in the idea that the emperor of Japan should be considered a descendant of the gods.

In December 1945 he told his vice-grand chamberlain Michio Kinoshita: " It is permissible to say that the idea that the Japanese are descendants of the gods is a false conception ; but it is absolutely impermissible to call chimerical the idea that the emperor is a descendant of the gods.

Although Knorring was urged to execute the plan as quickly as possible, he regarded the idea as unrealistic and procrastinated until March, when the emperor dispatched the War Minister Arakcheyev to Finland in order to pressure Knorring into action before arriving at the army himself.

He was also said to be full of respect for Confucian scholars, and supported the idea of allowing masters of the Five Classics to serve in the imperial court of Cao Pi, the first emperor of the state of Cao Wei.

The deputies knew that Frederick William IV held strong prejudices against the work of the Frankfurt Parliament, but on January 23, the Prussian government had informed the states of the German Confederation that Prussia would accept the idea of a hereditary emperor.

The idea for the Control Yuan was inspired by a long tradition of supervision used in past dynasties, ranging from the Censor ( 御史 ; yù shǐ ) established by the Qin ( 秦 ) and Han ( 漢 ) dynasties to the tái ( 臺 ) and jiàn ( 諫 ) offices established under the Sui ( 隋 ) and Tang ( 唐 ) dynasties ( tai were selected to supervise civil officials and military officers, while jian were selected to counsel the emperor on supervisory matters ) to the Board of Public Censors ( 都察院 ; dūchá-yuàn ) selected under the Ming ( 明 ) and Qing ( 清 ) dynasties.

This emperor allegedly decided this practice was cruel and must cease, and four years later, adopted the idea forwarded by Nomi no Sukune to bury clay figurines called haniwa instead of live men.

The government used theatre to promote the idea of be loyal to the emperor and love the kingdom ( 忠君愛國 ).

The blame which the apologists of the emperor have thrown on Talleyrand or Savary is debatable, as at times he was known to claim Talleyrand created the idea, while at others took full responsibilities for the killing.

Finally he was forced to an open protest, which he caused to be inscribed on the journals, but the action of Capo d ' Istria in reading to the assembled Italian ministers, who were by no means reconciled to the large claims implied in the Austrian intervention, a declaration in which as the result of the intimate union established by solemn acts between all the European powers the Russian emperor offered to the allies the aid of his arms, should new revolutions threaten new dangers, an attempt to revive that idea of a universal union based on the Holy Alliance against which Britain had consistently protested. The objections of Britain were, however, not so much to an Austrian intervention in Naples as to the far-reaching principles by which it was sought to justify it.

The imperial regime was based on the idea that sovereignty resided in the Nation, not the State, symbolically represented by the emperor.

Stephen Dečanski met them in the area known as Mraka and accepted the proposal and agreed that Ivan Stephen should become emperor of Bulgaria, thus abandoning the idea of uniting the two countries under the sceptre of his son Stephen Dušan.

Hofmannsthal handles Goethe ’ s material freely, adding the idea of two couples, the emperor and empress who come from another realm, and the dyer and his wife who belong to the ordinary world.

It fit well with the other idea that the battle was one between pagans and Christians: Theodosius, as the Christian emperor, was aided by God in the form of the wind.

Either early in her husband's reign as emperor, or while he was still the Prince of Dai, Empress Dou became a strict adherent to Taoist philosophy, as encapsulated in the writing of Lao Zi and the legendary writings attributed to the Yellow Emperor — the idea of favoring inaction over action, of non-interference with others and nature, and of thriftiness in living.

`` It was Brenner's idea '', Jess mumbled, dabbing at his nose.

He had no idea which was up and which was down.

Beyond the two basic tasks mentioned above, no attention was paid by statesman or scholar to an idea of state responsibility, either internally or externally.

Despite the clarity of his presentation, his idea was not of Einsteinian calibre.

To get an idea of the embarrassment and chagrin that was heaped upon Wright and Olgivanna, we should bear in mind that the raids were sometimes led by Miriam in person.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

Their policy ran counter to the traditional idea that a good fighter was usually a libertine, and that in sex affairs `` God-given passion '' was a proof of manliness.

Yet, the idea imbedded in each was identical: to surround the unknown with mystery and to isolate that class which had been given special dominion over the secrets of God.

The idea was not even suggested because political expediency prevailed over wisdom.

He had no idea where he was.

He realized that he had no idea where the telephone was.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

While Mr. Blatz was putting up the pegboards and starting the workbench, Mr. Crombie told him of this idea about paneling the whole end of the cellar.

Instructions to relax, i.e., to be `` spontaneous '', and react immediately to whatever impulse they might have, was not sufficiently reassuring until some idea of the possibilities of normal reactions had been given.

By this time Churchill was not so cordial toward moving Poland westward as he had been at Teheran, where he and Eden had both heartily approved the idea.

The dated poems also give us an idea of the degree to which Hardy drew upon past productions for his various volumes, and therefore probably are an indication of the amount of poetry he was writing at the time.

For weeks he had been saying that Hudson's idea of sailing through to Java was absurd.

And it was Lucy Upton who first started the idea of a regular course in Music at Spelman College.

That, incidentally, might give you some idea of what Felix was like.

Well, it hadn't been what it seemed, he'd had no idea the girl was in there.

This was senseless -- he had no idea what to look for.

`` I'll get my references in order '', Needham said, and though he spoke with a smile, Casey somehow got the idea that he was not particularly amused.