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Originally Posted by tomdemaine
In quality of life terms? I doubt it. I'm talking middle ages in europe and the roman leaders. Having a billion gold sovereigns or whatever doesn't make much difference when there's nothing much to spend them on.
You do realise that the two times you've put together - the middle ages and the roman leaders - have over a thousand years separating them?
The middle ages in Europe is easy enough - it wasn't
that much more dangerous to be king then be a nobleman. You're probably going to die at a relatively early age compared to now, but so was everybody else - and you're probably more likely to die in battle or from illness than from a conspiracy.
The upside to both eras is probably the same - unlimited power