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HISTORY OF AUTOCRATS AND WARS AS TOLD BY A DIAGRAM 
A. Showing the decline of all autocrats. 
B. Showing the rise and decline of the twenty greatest autocrats. 
C. The dotted line shows the decline in percentage of war-years per century. 
rulers who have been selected as es- 
pecially representative of autocratic 
sway (see Table I). The first 30 are 
given ranking numbers, though, as 
before stated, this must be considered 
only as tentative and approximate. 
That this arrangement in a series has 
a value seems to be interestingly illus- 
trated in this research, for, if the sover- 
eigns had not been individually graded, 
(Fig. 18.) 
the discovery would not have been 
made that European history furnishes 
actual evidence that great autocrats are 
especially associated with periods of 
warfare. 
If we consider only the evidence 
drawn from the entire 62 autocrats, we 
find 914.5 years of war out of a total 
of 1,779 years of reign. This is 51.4% 
and is only slightly greater than the 
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