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While monarchs in places like Europe, China, and Japan claimed to have their legitimacy from various supernatural sources like divine right or the mandate of heaven, did monarchs in other places like India or Central Asia also claim to have their legitimacy from supernatural sources?

by /u/Humpback_whale1 in /r/AskHistorians

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