One that seems to be in fashion these days, although you never know how long the fashion lasts, is: internal uprisings that somehow these monarchical areas, when life got tough, the people must have risen up against them.

有一个理论现在很流行,虽然不知道流行了多久,那就是认为,这些王国中起义的内部原因是,当民生困苦时,人们就必然奋起反抗

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