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The imperial rulers moved the capital to Kyoto originally to escape from the growing domination of the Buddhist authorities of Nara.
The Qing rulers never forgot their nomadic Manchu roots, and Emperor Kangxi developed this remote valley in the countryside as a summer court and hunting ground in 1703.
When Seleucid rulers outlawed Judaism, Jews led by Judah Maccabee and his brothers staged a revolution in 167 b.c. and, against all odds, restored the primacy of Jewish religious life in Jerusalem.
Recently, the rulers of two of the world's most populous countries were compelled to relinquish their hold on power: Indonesia's Suharto left office amid mounting violence, and Nigeria's Gen.
These experiments in political Islam faltered during the 1990s: the Iranian revolution lost momentum, prestige, and public support, and Pakistan's rulers found that most of its population had little enthusiasm for fundamentalist Islam.