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7th Jun '13 4:00:03 AM DocLoki

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7th Jun '13 3:56:00 AM DocLoki

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29th May '13 3:01:53 AM Aunel

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* Common practice in Imperial China was that when one dynasty got overthrown and another took over, the new dynasty would write off the last Emperor of the former dynasty as a weak ruler. This was accepted as the way things naturally worked. There was even a "standard excuse" for this, namely writing the former Emperor off as a drunken sod who was occupied by woman all day and had a corrupt eunuch as chancellor. However, each dynasty also kept record of its own rule, so most of the times they were protected somewhat from this trope.
** The way people would decide when it was time to overthrow the old Emperor was when he had lost the Mandate of Heaven, which was Heaven no longer accepting him as a ruler because he was bad at it. In response to this, all sorts of disaster struck the land the Emperor ruled over, like droughts, floods, severely corrupted tax collectors and eunuchs... Considering that this land always included the Yangtze river, which tends to flood a lot, some people now believe that it was not Heaven which had decided the old Emperor should go, but that the last Emperor of a dynasty just had the bad luck that all those disasters happened during his reign, making the populace unruly, which a noble could then take advantage of in order to become Emperor himself (or herself, on one occasion).

24th May '13 10:40:10 PM Chortles

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14th May '13 10:31:40 AM SquigPie

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14th May '13 10:29:04 AM SquigPie

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Yeah, because Vladimir Putin is the essence of free speech.

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13th May '13 6:04:54 AM RobinPack

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13th May '13 6:00:22 AM RobinPack

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Praying for your victim hardly qualifies.

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* Ivan IV of Russia. Consider at the very least the fact that he actually ''prayed'' for those he sentenced to death, in a way that was abnormal even for his highly religious time (he prayed for everyone by name, offered abject penance and only then got right back to it). Still, there is plenty of historical debate as to whether he destroyed Muscovite society and caused the Time of Troubles or whether he dug out the foundations of Peter the Great's new Russian Empire (or both). There is also debate as to whether his epithet "Groznii" means "Terrible" in the modern sense of "horrible" or in the Old Testament sense of "awe-inspiring". The fact remains that he has been used as a historical justification for the need of a strong leader in Russian society (see: Stalin).
** Not really a debate. Grozniy meant Awesome, in the old sense. It ''still'' does not mean "horrible" in Russian today - "frightening", maybe.
*** The only negative connotation today is with the city of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya.

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10th May '13 9:36:17 AM Gatomon41

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