The election of Charles's son Wenceslas (Wenzel) as king in 1376 (two years before Charles's death) was a striking example of the emperor's skill in securing the cooperation of the electors for his dynastic purposes.
For example, for 'The Emperor's New Clothes,' we set it in Japan, where, traditionally, there have been emperors.
We are told he is an example of the "little emperor" phenomenon in which male products of the country's one-child policy grow up spoiled and entitled.
It is doubtful that any American president would follow the example of the Chinese emperor Qianlong, who announced in 1793 that the then economic superpower had no interest in "foreign manufactures", setting his country on the road to two centuries of impoverishment.
To this day, many consider it one of the prime examples of an emperor's new book.
For example, she attracts the attention of the Emperor of Valsennar in World Without Stars and, dressed in leather gear and boots, she manipulates Crocbattler and Rackalust in Brooklyn Station, Terminus Cosmos and regularly charms the Shingouz when negotiating with them for information.
Seamounts are often found in groupings or submerged archipelagos, a classic example being the Emperor Seamounts, an extension of the Hawaiian Islands.
For example, we learn that "the symbology of the emperor as mediator affected mathematics": the claim is striking - certainly, it is not easy to imagine Euclid touching up his Elements under the influence of the symbols of Alexander the Great.
Of the short-lived reign of the emperor Galba, for example, Tacitus wrote: "Capax imperium, nisi imperasset" ("He would have been capable of ruling, except that he ruled").
The dramatizations in "The First Emperor" are more detailed than in many examples of the genre, 21st-century conversational ("Or am I missing something?" the emperor asks sardonically at one point) and, for the most part, better acted.
