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Queen Victoria was crowned empress of India. More as a title to flatter her, but its technically correct because she was the figured head monarch of distinct countries/peoples.

The term emperor usually means you rule over various different lands and semi autonomous regions as an overlord. Even if you look at the tetrarchy, each of the emperors ruled over multiple provinces, with their Caesar being their number 2, and sometimes ruling over the lesser parts of that regions. Pretty much after the fall of rome, the term emperor returned to meaning "leader of the world".

It's not where it originated but it's where the language and specific style of it in european monarchies came from.

My names Brutus, I'm not trying to stab you, just trying to scratch your back. ;)

That isn't where that system originated. It goes back to the Persians, mycaneans, Egyptians, and nearly the whole civilized history of the near east. Probably the most recorded widespread Era of this was the middle to late bronze age. It was an ever changing patch work of large empires with their "kings of the world" imposing their authority over smaller kings of territories. The tradition goes back as far as the sumerians. Another example is when the hittite emperor writes to the mycanean king and calls him a "great king" and differentiates between that kings Control over his petty kings. The same can be seen between Egypt and the hittites in the treaty of kadesh.

"General of the Army" (the 5 star rank equivalent to marshal) would actually be the closer parable. In the US the title is mostly only given out as a great honour particularly after victory/war.

Imperator similarly is an honor title granted for success. Many emperors would in fact be proclaimed imperator multiple times for major achievements they attained, as opposed to a simple title equivalent to head of the army.

Coins were used to pay troops, that spent them in the territory the army traversed.

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I have seen counterfeit Roman coins sell for a huge amount of money because they were counterfeited at the time of the Roman empire. Funny how if it's old enough it's almost certainly valuable applies once you reach a couple thousand years old. Including counterfeit money.

I’m curious if they could do a similar study for Hy-Brasil off the west coast of Ireland.

The amount of folklore regarding that place in Irish fishing culture is intriguing.

In the third century it's more likely he was a regional commander. Obviously faulty logic, but we have plenty of examples of people who's memory was supposed to be erased but wasn't (Domitian and Marc Antony come to mind)

Commander in Chief is basically Imperator in the US.

Do you have a source about this 1 mio dead? Not to doubt it but I'm really curious. Considering most poeple on this time and place lived in poorly accessible towns and farms, you'd need explicit genocidal efforts to achieve this.

That’s awesome to hear. I’m hoping you will cover it in one of your videos or future books. I an currently reading your book and it’s AMAZING. Easy to read an digest. I’m hoping there will be more books written by you in the future. I’m looking forward to it.

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For the state theres an obvious advantage, coins are a lot easier to use than raw gold so there's a benefit to the economy (assuming you can stop them being debased). So that's why emperor's did it. But for your average oligarch it's mostly just propaganda (or maybe theres a coin shortage in their region).

I'm (cautiously) excited by it - it's not every day that a new usurper is discovered

My understanding was if you wanted a document to be taken seriously and stand the test of time, you wrote/translated it to Greek, not the native tongue of the author.

The idea being that Greek was a language known to around the world and was likely to stay around, unlike Aramaic

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"Indigenous Australians" reduces them to one group too.

Just curious, what would be the benefit of making coins other than propaganda? Or is there none?

Jesus Professor of Celtic at the University of Oxford.

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