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Meritocracy.
Also my favourite son is right next to the capital , so good luck getting here and establishing yourself as sultan first, lesser sons.
It’s actually worse. For centuries, the winning prince would kill their siblings (and sometimes, their children too) to avoid a future insurrection.
A peaceful transfer of power was when there was nobody left alive to challenge the transfer.
Good times.
Was this CK3 DLC I missed?
Not really, it was a thing that Ottoman Sultans did where as soon as they got the throne they killed off their brothers to secure their rule.
Mehmed III got the record for killing 19 brothers and then buried them with his father.
That’s how it was in ancient Ireland too, but even more spread out across the whole male kindred of the ruling clan. This seemingly chaotic tradition was ameliorated by the final choice being put to election.
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So what’s piefed social’s policy on certain links and the idea that information should be free? 🏴☠️
Um, what?
Your jstor link requires an institutional login. I was going to try and find a link that didn’t, but a lot of those links technically fall under digital piracy - Lemmy world explicitly bans those kind of links to cover their asses legally but the db0 instance allows them, for example.
Well that’s a new word for me, thanks! (Ameliorate: To make or become better; improve.)
Charlemagne would like a word.
Yeah, the Franks had a similarly fratricidal system
