Comments by "Sam Brockmann" (@SamBrockmann) on "Rulers Who Were Actually Good — History Hijinks" video.

  1. The thing we all forget about Middle Easter rulers (even to this day, really, for things like the Kings of Saudi Arabia) is that their legitimacy came from being "chosen by the divine". If you couldn't convince the powerful priesthoods that you were divinely chosen, you were just a lame rebel bandit about which no one cared.
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