Asian Queenship

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ParagonA person or thing regarded as a perfect example of a particular quality.
 
Also see. Anti-Worthies, Virago, Women Worthies
PatriarchMale head of a family or tribe.
 
Also see. Matriarch
Patrilineal Relating to or based on relationships to the father or descendant through the male line.
Patrilocality When a newlywed couple lives close to or near the husband’s family.
 
Also see. Uxorilocality
PatronageThe support awarded by a patron through, political, financial, cultural, educational and or religious means.
Pax SinicaA Historiographical term referring to periods of peace and stability in East, North East, and Central Asia led by China.
Peripatic/Itinerant
Court		A migrating form of government, where the court moves around its territory.
polygamous/
Polygamy 		The state or practice of having more than one wife or female mate at one time.
Porphyrogennetos/
porphyrogennita 		refers specifically to those individuals born legitimately to a reigning emperor, “Born in the Purple.”
Power BaseAn area of a country, empire or a group of people on which someone’s power depends.
PrimogenitureThe State of being the first-born child.
 
Also see. Agnatic Succession
Pro animaA Clasue in the charter specifying that a disposition is made ‘for the soul’ of a person.
ProgenitrixA female progenitor, a foremother, or any of a person’s direct female ancestors.