As a dedicated player of Crusader Kings, I must point out the possibility that the issue with succession in cases such as Alexander and Genghis Khan might have been less "they didn't think about it" and more "societal custom forced their hand."
Ironically enough, we've done a cultural loop, and modern cultural norms also reject primogeniture! Imagine the societal reaction if Elon Musk declared that among his 13? kids, 100% of his wealth and property are to be passed to his oldest son, exclusively.
I'll grant you Khan but nothing I've read about Alexander gives me the impression he put a lot of thought into the long term in terms of imperial stability.
Musk's eldest child... as a Brit, with interest, being made to give Vivian Jenna Wilson half, not just her brother, given the UK's royal family struggles, etc.
I am so totally beholden to my first engineering boss of bosses, who was an "anti-Stockley", and for other reasons this week Claude Shannon. Those 'big' people in the industry that can give 'little' people some time are a godsend.
As a dedicated player of Crusader Kings, I must point out the possibility that the issue with succession in cases such as Alexander and Genghis Khan might have been less "they didn't think about it" and more "societal custom forced their hand."
Ironically enough, we've done a cultural loop, and modern cultural norms also reject primogeniture! Imagine the societal reaction if Elon Musk declared that among his 13? kids, 100% of his wealth and property are to be passed to his oldest son, exclusively.
I'll grant you Khan but nothing I've read about Alexander gives me the impression he put a lot of thought into the long term in terms of imperial stability.
Musk's eldest child... as a Brit, with interest, being made to give Vivian Jenna Wilson half, not just her brother, given the UK's royal family struggles, etc.
I am so totally beholden to my first engineering boss of bosses, who was an "anti-Stockley", and for other reasons this week Claude Shannon. Those 'big' people in the industry that can give 'little' people some time are a godsend.