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"How did the nobles become noble in the first place!?"
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Claiming descent from deities was common in Rome. The justification for the inheritance of autocracy was, theoretically, the grant of power by the Senate in the name of the people of Rome (in practice, the support of the elite or the military), and the dual fact that actual hereditary inheritance was fairly rare and that ruling families changed as often as fashion means that descent was not the primary justification.
Paperwork wins empires, it would seem. And propaganda. Lots of propaganda work from Augustus.
Ooh! I just thought of something: