Examples of overlord

• She carried out her basic responsibilities to her people, her allies and her overlord in the same manner as other land chiefs.

• Submission sometimes led to incorporation, but often to a tenuous relation between reluctant subjects and distrusted overlords.

• There they provided all sorts of services for their overlords.

• They could pay overlords what they asked for, or they could vote with their feet and hope for the best.

• On the one hand, it signified the premodern overlord/tributary relationship.

• Around 5,000 years ago, in fertile river valleys bordered by mountains and deserts, subjects started to pay overlords labor and taxes.

• Government officials subtly criticized their political overlords for failing to commit enough resources to their particular area of concern.

• The section below will argue that such similarities can be seen in investiture rituals-that is, confirmation rituals by an overlord of lesser individuals not necessarily from the same community.