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Dictators are a thing of either Roman antiquity or of the 20th/21st century. In between there were kings or reigning dukes (in Italy) who had near-absolute powers, but nobody considered them 'dictators' at the time.
In ancient Rome, 'dictator' was simply the title (sometimes) given in times of war to someone for a limited period of usually 6 months. This was done when the Roman Senate decided it was necessary that all decisions to be made to get Rome out of a tight spot should be made by one man for maximum efficiency. So back then it was simply a temporary job to be done. If a Roman dictator caused any deaths, it was amongst the enemy soldiers.
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Gargoyles became popular in the medieval period but they date back to ancient Egypt.
What did Xerox mean in medieval times?
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The Ottoman empire is not ancient, it is late medieval. And it traded with all over Asia and Europe, so there are a menagerie of goods that the Ottoman Empire imported.
