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the slow brutal handoff of power that no one survives clean, least of all the heirs
means The act or order of one person, thing, or event following and taking the place of another — especially the passing of a title, throne, office, or inheritance to the next in line.
from From Latin successio, from succedere 'to come after, follow close behind, go up,' built from sub- 'under, close after' plus cedere 'to go, move' — the same cedere that gives us cede, recede, and proceed. The image baked in is one of stepping up from below to take another's place, foot in the same footprint. It entered English through Old French in the medieval period, carrying the heavy freight of crowns and bloodlines that it still drags around today.
- dynasty math
- Most family businesses die by the third generation
- royal rule
- Primogeniture handed everything to the firstborn son
- ecology too
- Forests rebuild themselves through stages over decades
- empire killer
- Disputed succession sparked Rome's bloodiest civil wars
- the show
- Won Emmys for fictionalizing a very real billionaire knife fight
house of windsor succession — british royal line: elizabeth ii to charles to william, established 1952
papal succession — catholic church leadership: 266 popes since st. peter, most recent benedict xvi to francis in 2013
mughal empire succession — indian dynasty: akbar to jahangir to shah jahan, 16th-17th centuries