Under Sargon and his successors, Akkadian language was briefly imposed on neighboring conquered states such as Elam.

Under Akhenaten's successors Egypt reverted to its traditional religion, and Akhenaten himself came to be reviled as a heretic.

Under Æthelstan's successors Edmund and Eadred the English kings repeatedly lost and regained control of Northumbria.

Under the rules of Hammurabi's successors, the Babylonian Empire was weakened by military pressure from the Hittites, who sacked Babylon around 1531 BC ( short ).

Under Chandragupta and his successors, internal and external trade, agriculture and economic activities, all thrived and expanded across India thanks to the creation of a single and efficient system of finance, administration, and security.

Under the successors of Alexander, it enjoyed relative autonomy and organized games and competitions in which the greatest athletes of the region participated.

Under the Umayyad's successors, the Abbasids ( 750-1258 ), Jordan was neglected and began to languish due to the geo-political shift that occurred when the Abassids moved their capital from Damascus to Kufa and later to Baghdad.

Under Clovis ' Merovingian successors the inhabitants were Christianized.

Under Otto and his successors, much of the former Carolingian kingdom of Eastern Francia became the Holy Roman Empire.

Under the heading " Adam " the author of the lexicon ( which a prefatory note states to be " by Suidas ") gives a brief chronology of the world, ending with the death of the emperor John I Tzimiskes ( 975 ), and under Constantinople his successors Basil II ( 976-1025 ) and Constantine VIII ( 1025 – 1028 ) are mentioned.

Under his sons, Ulrich II and Eberhard I, and their successors, the power of the family grew steadily.

" Under article 3 Prince Albert agreed "... for himself and his successors the commitment assumed towards the French Government not to alienate the Principality, in whole or in part, in favour of any Power other than France.

Under Dayan Khan or his successors, the Eastern Mongols compelled the Barga to surrender.

Under most systems, only persons in the first category are dynasts, that is, potential successors to the throne ( unless the member of the latter category is also in line to the throne in their own right, a frequent occurrence in royal families which frequently intermarry ).

Under Constantine's successors, the title was also established at a territorial level: magistri peditum and magistri equitum were appointed for every praetorian prefecture ( per Gallias, per Italiam, per Illyricum, per Orientem ), and, in addition, for Thrace and, sometimes, Africa.

Under Gilman and his successors, this orphanage was later changed to serve as an orphanage and training school for black female orphans principally as domestic workers, and next as an " orthopedic convalescent " home and school for " colored crippled " children and orphans.

Under his orders and those of his successors, particularly the Count of Blénac, the fort was built with a Vauban design.

( Under each of his successors, the bank's name has changed: George Moore shortened it to " First National City Bank " and formed a holding company, First National City Corp .; under Walter B. Wriston these became " Citibank " and " Citicorp "; under John Reed the firm merged with Travelers Group to become Citigroup.

Under Sigfrid ’ s successors, the county of Guînes acquired considerable importance.

Under Constantine I, the office was much reduced in power and transformed into a purely civilian administrative post, while under his successors, territorially-defined praetorian prefectures emerged as the highest-level administrative division of the Empire.

Under Chandragupta and his successors, internal and external trade, agriculture and economic activities, all thrived and expanded across India thanks to the creation of a single and efficient system of finance, administration, and security.

Under Ibrahim and his successors saw a period of sustained tranquility for the empire.

Under his rule and those of his two successors, Kaykaus I and Kayqubad I, Seljuq power in Anatolia reached its apogee.

Under the successors of Salih ibn Tarif, Ilyas ibn Salih ( CE 792-842 ); Yunus ( CE 842-888 ) and Abu Ghufail ( CE 888 – 913 ) the tribal kingdom was consolidated, and missions sent to neighbouring tribes.

Under Parthian and Sassanian Iranian empires, scholars concentrated on exchanging knowledge and inventions by the countries around them – India, China, and the Roman Empire, when it is thought to be expanded over the other countries.

Under the Cronquist system of taxonomic classification of flowering plants Asteraceae was the only family in the group, but newer systems ( such as APG II and APG III ) have expanded it to eleven.

Under Stefan Uroš IV Dušan, Serbia expanded into Byzantine territory in Macedonia, taking Ohrid, Prilep, Kastoria, Strumica, and Edessa in about 1334.

Under the Ottomans, Cairo expanded south and west from its nucleus around the Citadel.

Under their leadership, the Turkic Khaganate rapidly expanded to rule huge territories in Central Asia.

Under Belichick, the team won three Super Bowls in four years, and finished the 2007 regular season with a perfect 16 – 0 record, becoming only the fourth team in league history to go undefeated in the regular season, and the only one since the league expanded its regular season schedule to 16 games.

Under their rule the city-state flourished and expanded.

Under Ottoman rule, the town expanded further towards the confluence point of the Serava and Vardar rivers.

Under Johan Björnsson Printz, governor from 1643 to 1653, the company expanded along the river from Fort Christina, establishing Fort Nya Elfsborg on the east bank of the Delaware near present-day Salem, New Jersey and Fort Nya Gothenborg on Tinicum Island ( to the immediate southwest of today's Philadelphia ), where he also built his manor house, The Printzhof.

Under Philip II, ( 359 – 336 BC ), Macedon expanded into the territory of the Paeonians, Thracians, and Illyrians.

Under the warrior Khan Krum ( 802-814 ) Bulgaria expanded northwest and south, occupying the lands between the middle Danube and Moldova rivers, all of present-day Romania, Sofia in 809 and Adrianople in 813, and threatening Constantinople itself.

Under Emperor Ling ( r. 168 – 189 CE ) the eunuchs had the partisan prohibitions renewed and expanded, while themselves auctioning off top government offices.

Under Warren G. Harding, the size of the staff expanded to thirty-one, although most were clerical positions.

Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act the role of the Secretary has been greatly expanded.

Under John II's watch, the gold and slave trade in west Africa was greatly expanded.

Under the collaboration of Zapf and Akira Kobayashi, the Palatino typeface family was expanded.

Under his leadership from the 1840s to 1865, the Swazi expanded their territory to the north and west, and stabilized the southern frontier with the Zulu.

Under the direction of Livingstone and Jackson, Games Workshop expanded from being a bedroom mail order company to a successful gaming manufacturer and retail chain, with the first Games Workshop store opening in Hammersmith in 1977.

Under Barr's guidance, the museum's holdings quickly expanded from an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing.

Under Perón, the number of unionized workers expanded as he helped to establish the powerful General Confederation of Labor.

( p. 171 ) Under T ' o-pa Ssu-kung they conquered Ch ' ang-an ( Xian ) between 881 and 895 and expanded their reign southward and westward until they reached their original homeland in Tibet and Central Asia.

Under Presidents Nixon and Ford, Henry Kissinger's expanded NSC staff concentrated on acquiring analytical information from the various departments that would allow the National Security Adviser to put before the President the best possible range of options for decision.

Under his leadership, the empire expanded into Fars in 650 ( present-day Iran ), some areas of Khorasan ( present-day Afghanistan ) in 651 and the conquest of Armenia was begun in the 640s.

Under Umar the Islamic empire expanded at an unprecedented rate ruling the whole Sassanid Persian Empire and more than two thirds of the Eastern Roman Empire.