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The Difference Between “Kings” and “Emperors” - Etymosemanticology

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"Because the Romans were weird" is the answer to a lot of questions about why our culture does this or that.

SOME SMALL CORRECTIONS:

1. Calling "Caesar" a "last name" is more questionable than I thought. It was a name that people inherited from their parents, but Roman naming was weird and not exactly analogous to the modern system.

2. I implied that modern Russia was significantly more ethnically diverse than the HRE. I'm not so sure about that anymore. Measuring diversity is hard though, especially for thousand-year-old countries.

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