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.
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.
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fubarx@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 227d
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.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 227d
Meritocracy.
Also my favourite son is right next to the capital , so good luck getting here and establishing yourself as sultan first, lesser sons.
DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 227d
Was this CK3 DLC I missed?
olafurp@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 226d
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.
Hamartia@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 227d
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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AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 226d
So what's piefed social's policy on certain links and the idea that information should be free? 🏴☠️
hayvan@piefed.world · 2 pts · 226d
Um, what?
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 226d
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.
rotateabull@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 226d
Well that's a new word for me, thanks! (Ameliorate: To make or become better; improve.)
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 226d
Charlemagne would like a word.
wieson@feddit.org · 2 pts · 226d
Yeah, the Franks had a similarly fratricidal system