Who are history's greatest monarchs, not in terms of conquered territories and generalship, but their civil works and administrative ability?
>>1570131
Augustus is defiantly one of them.
>>1570135
Antoninus Pius was better.
>>1570131
Harold Hadrada
Charles II of Spain
How would one go about and measure that? I'm interested in the question and I'm thinking about some kings but don't know how to value them.
>>1570296
"Did they leave the realm better off or worse than when they found it?"
Not a true monarch but Antoninus Pius.
>>1570131
Gustav II Adolf
>>1570465
>Emperor
>not a monarch
retardo
>>1570131
Does the non desire to rule combines with the acceptance of this responsibility it's what make great monarchs?
Seleukus was a capable administrator and founded many cities while also introducing the silver currency into the local trade in Asia. Syria was a desolate shithole until Seleukus urbanised it.
>>1570223
Why?
Charles Robert of Hungary