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

"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.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2017
- Runtime: 4 min
- By: Xidnaf
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Difference_Between_%E2%80%9CKings%E2%80%9D_and_%E2%80%9CEmperors%E2%80%9D_-_Etymosemanticology.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Xidnaf
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/98089324?play=1)