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SupremeAssassin wrote: for example, "China had many dynasties." As opposed to something such as, "The 1st Dynasty." Or in reference to this forum, the Ptolemaic Dynasty, because we are referring to a period of history for that one particular region, and of course are also specifying a specific dynasty.

In the Chinese context, I wasn't actually referring to when it's used as a general noun "China has many dynasties" but when it is used as part of a name, for a specific time period. Check out Wikipedia:, ,. For some reason, the academic convention is always to not capitalize "dynasty" in regards to Chinese dynasties even as part of the name, no different than how "First Dynasty" is used.