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https://youtu.be/PNF14QgjiGI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdY1YA4jVTQ

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Boas

Believed biology did not effect human characteristics, and that all cultures were relative

Clearly fueled by his fear of "anti semetism"

Eh. They are relative. Which is the fucking problem. My culture views others as inferior, just as I see Germans as being of inferior nationality.

Historically, would a king or an emperor have a lot of personal bodyguards? They surely would right? And how many would they usually have?

Trying to figure out how a kingdom and the court look like for my empires in dnd.

It depends on the amount, but the answer is yes

Hmmm okay. Is 8 too many? Or too few?

@MountainMan Well are you going for historical accuracy, or for drama? lol

Historical accuracy.

@MountainMan Okay, well just take note that most of our preconceptions about how monarchies worked are wrong, at least in the US.

I can't say much for the UK

Okay. Very good to know.

The idea of a hereditary authoritarian dictator is not accurate

https://twitter.com/HistoryTime_/status/1111723491735289858

Tbh pretty much all the commonly held ideas about how pre-modern governments worked are wrong. People are used to having organized states with formal administration, written law, clearly and precisely defined borders, hell even a literate population...

Pre-modern states weren't even states as far as what we would call a proper state nowadays

And the term "monarchy" is extremely vague. Using it is like using "republic" to describe everything from a tribe governed by a council of elders all the way to contemporary France. Plus the terms aren't even discrete - the UK is a monarchy but pretty much any vaguely reasonable person would agree that it's really more of a republic that keeps the old monarchs for pageantry's sake...

@Fitzydog @MountainMan

Ptolemaic Egypt and XIVth century France had wildly different government structures and ideologies, yet both would be classified as monarchies in common parlance.

Not to mention weird ass examples like the late Holy Roman Empire or Poland-Lithuania...

Or modern day Luxembourg

Which in this modern era, actually gave *more* power to the crown.

Fun fact: In Lichtenstein no law can be passed without the Price Regent's explicit a-OK.

Oh, was I thinking of Lichtenstein?

You might have been, I dunno much about Luxemburg's gov structure

Lichtenstein is a monarchy. Luxembourg is Switzerland-lite

Like a fully independent canton. Don't they vote on new immigrants? lol

I rly have no clue

I never had any interest in that city state

Everyone should be in a city-state

city states are gay

@galesteppes Fuck off statist

city states are for faggots who want to be conquered or cucked

not wrong

city states exist because someone in there is rich enough to own it

usually one family, it's like extreme monarchism which is the opposite of being cucked