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In Our Time: History

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The Importance of Kingship in Persia

Most satraps, or governors, were related to the king and of persian origin. So they had a notion what was happening actually in the home. And physically, lindsey's ubset, you rihted it's this transference of the of the imperial image,. if you like, can happen in in minutia. In seals and er and bulai for instance. You know, so every every, every wealthy individual the ancient world had his own which we could press into into clay. And this would carry images of kingship. Ad, really right up until modern times.

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