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During his reign Palestine flourished, but his successors proved less able, and over the next four centuries the country continuously declined to become a virtual backwater.
But Ala-ud-din’s successors did not assert control of the territory.
"The Madness of Speaker Newt" chronicles Gingrich's decline: Newt's Republican "revolutionaries" are abandoning him; his advisers are recriminating over who's to blame for his collapse; and potential successors are jockeying for position.
The supporters of the deposed James VII and his successors, exiled in France, were known as the “Jacobites. ”
What the successors to Stalin are going to do we don't know, but there are no signs they are giving up their commitment to rule the world.