How did the western concept of an emperor as someone above a king came to be? How would the relationship between the titles of king and emperor be in for example, Japan or China?
I've always wondered about the specific origins of the differences between those titles. Shouldn't the concept of "ruler" be the same? How did the idea of something above that originate?
Posted Oct 21, 2020, 2:45 PM UTC
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