This is indeed true—military dictatorships, including the Roman Empire, tend to be notoriously insecure and horrible at dealing with succession—but even European monarchs have had plenty of disputed successions and civil wars.
but even European monarchs have had plenty of disputed successions and civil wars.
That’s because you’re taking the highlights from over a millennium of history over multiple countries. Herearea few examples from MoreRight of systematically going through all Kings in a dynasty and evaluating them.
This is indeed true—military dictatorships, including the Roman Empire, tend to be notoriously insecure and horrible at dealing with succession—but even European monarchs have had plenty of disputed successions and civil wars.
That’s because you’re taking the highlights from over a millennium of history over multiple countries. Here are a few examples from MoreRight of systematically going through all Kings in a dynasty and evaluating them.