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Can't say I knew him personally, but it's also possible that he was self-aggrandizing and still a relatively good leader? Obviously it feels to modern readers l
by blacksmith_tb 3y ago
Can't say I knew him personally, but it's also possible that he was self-aggrandizing and still a relatively good leader? Obviously it feels to modern readers like it's kind of a stretch to claim the Cylinder is the birth of the concept of human rights[1] but that doesn't mean that a king setting out in writing his obligations to his subjects wasn't an important milestone.
1: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-21747567 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-21747567