If you were a king/queen from the past would you be good or bad?

Question

would you have unfair rules, such as anyone that says anything against you gets their head chopped off?

would you be democratic?

or

Egotistical and selfish, and not care about what anyone thinks of your rules? (wait, that reminds me of someone. . . .)

Answer 1

i would look after my people and would want to know how they were keeping

Answer 2

I will be a good ruler in the imperial kingdom!

Answer 3

Im guessing i would be a very harsh king to those who are not my people. I say this because of the way i played Medieval 2: Total War. The game simulates the medieval era where you are a king and control a whole empire in business, diplomacy, religion, etc. I would murder every town i conquered. I would constantly be at war. I had almost no allies because i was very untrustworthy and it wasn't long before i was at war with the mighty Mongols. Nonethe less, i got to own half of Europe and treated my people like friends and my foes and enemies as things to be conquered and disposed of. If i found an enemy spy in one of my cities, i would go attack the closest city or castle of that faction. I treated my soldiers and people well but anyone else like trash.

Answer 4

then that would depends on what other thinks.

Answer 5

Good.  Or at least try to be.  Sometimes its hard to tell the difference.  Sometimes you mean to be good but no matter what you're bad in someone's eyes.  It's possible to please everyone, maybe the majority but not everyone

I also would be one most likely that would be too nice and have people take advantage of her at times

Suzanne

Answer 6

I would do what was right unless it suited me to do otherwise...It would be a dictatorship and I would be the d**k!!! you wanna be in my harem???

Answer 7

good Queen. the one who sits in a high throne .Id treat everybody right.I would then and now pray and fast like Queen Esther done 2 make sure God was really in all of my situations so by approaching his thrown hed be my husband who ruled and conquered everything just like hes already doing.amen

Answer 8

I would be good because I ccan't change my nature.

Answer 9

depends

Answer 10

in my case, i dont think "good or bad" would be the polar opposites of my type of ruling

it would be more on the "overpowering and weak" polars

and for me, i would be more of the kind queen who people take advantage of by simply lowering my defences

in real life, i tend to care too much about other people, and for that reason people tend to take advantage of me

now, if i were a queen, that would be an absolutely HORRIBLE attribute

Answer 11

Queen Elizabeth R didn't have much of a problem eliminating(heads chopped off and other methods) her enemies(real or perceived). She had more Roman Catholics killed than her older half-sister Queen Mary had Protestants killed. Yet, history generally condemns "Bloody Mary", who was disliked because she married a Spanaird and shared the English throne with him.

A huge problem also to consider is,  if you were a consort-Queen: you could be truly good(kind, giving-alms-to-the-poor, faithful to your husband ect.) and yet still, because of politics, religion, not giving birth to a son and an unfaithful ruling King who was your husband....get your head chopped off, under his orders. That, of course, happened to Queen Elizabeth's mother - Queen Anne (Boleyn).

It wasn't easy being a female royal centuries ago, to say the least. I haven't a clue as to how I would have behaved back then, as a ruler or a consort. No matter how good you were, you were always at risk  because you were female.

Answer 12

It depends on who's remembering me. To some I'd be Cricket the Terrible and others I'd be Cricket the the Great.