What is the procedure to go from king to emperor?

>>2074200
beat the living shit out of other kings, dummy

>>2074200
What is the procedure to go from peasant to emperor?

There is none. The distinction between emperor and king has always been blurry and is made even more blurry when titles in Asia for example are translated into "Emperor" even though they are not equivalent to the western concept of an emperor. Generally emperor means a king of kings, or you having some ties to the Roman Empire.

The Eastern Romans for example gave Charlemagne the right to use the title basileus, but not the right to use basileus Rhomaíōn (emperor of the Romans) so from the Roman perspective Charlemagne became the "Emperor of the Franks". Then the concept of being an Emperor got tied to the pope.

In the colonial era everyone just named themselves empires.

>>2074231
>In the colonial era everyone just named themselves empires.

Well if emperor is king of kings it is only natural that countries that rule other countries are empires even if they don't have emperors.

>>2074200
Generally the distinction between a king and an emperor is that a king rules over a geographically and culturally homogeneous territory, while an emperor controls multiple such territories under a single government.

>>2074231
>so from the Roman perspective
so from the Byzantine perspective*

>>2074200
get some kings to swear fealty to you, and/or conquer multiple ethnicities in significant numbers.

>>2074250

So why don't we call Achaemenid Persia an empire?

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>>2074314
. . . we do.

>>2074213
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justinian_I

>>2074335

Americans call everything big an empire.
They call it the British empire while the Brits were never really emperors ( except for India ). They had kings.

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>>2074200
Conquering Paris and inviting all your friends over to Versailles is a good start.

>>2074415
>they call it the british empire

http://www.britishempire.co.uk/

>.co.uk

>>2074513
Started dumb wars and being Germanic is also a good way to end empire.

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>>2074530
You mean like ending the second French Empire and becoming the German Empire? Yes, you can do that in one one go.

>>2074231
>or you having some ties to the Roman Empire.

Like being a holy version of it?

>>2074200
The Pope give you the title of emperor

>>2074513
Except if it's to crown a retard who'll start a world war and lose all the annexed territories some decades later

>>2074688
Charlemagne was the first Emperor, back then the Romans where a big thing, so he took the title for public relations reasons. Later on this turned out to be a horrible mistake.

>>2074697
Charlemagne was a Frankish Emperor
The first Holy Roman Emperor was Otto I

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>>2074695
Well, who was crowned German Emperor in Versailles? Wilhelm I !
>died 1888
>had nothing to do with WW1
and now you learned something. enjoy /his/

>>2074711
Charlemagne was Emperor of the Romans tough.
>coronation was 25 December 800

>>2074200

A imperial coronation.

>>2074693
/thread

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