Information about ancient politics?

[kikyo]

Okay so I am trying to figure out key points that a king would talk about involving politics.
I know military strategies is a good one.
Is agriculture a point in politics?

 

[Russ]

Okay so I am trying to figure out key points that a king would talk about involving politics.
I know military strategies is a good one.
Is agriculture a point in politics?

Agriculture would be huge. Labour, diplomacy, taxes, economics, gossip...tons of topics to chose from,

 

[skip.knox]

To whom is the king talking? The conversation will differ depending on whether it's his marshal, chancellor, powerful duke, wife, childhood buddy, ambassador, court mage, etc. Figure out the situation and you'll be well on your way to choosing the subject matter. He can talk about anything - he's the king!

 

[Michael K. Eidson]

From the viewpoint of the king's underlings, anything the king talks about is political.

 

[elemtilas]

Okay so I am trying to figure out key points that a king would talk about involving politics.
I know military strategies is a good one.
Is agriculture a point in politics?

One perennial talking point is the rising / presumptive power demanded by the Nobles, the Middle Class, the Church, the Rabble (aka the People), the Parliament, etc. Anything that diminishes the authority of the monarch is a touchy & obviously political subject.

Another is the claims made by rivals, be those rivals pretenders to the throne, foreign monarchs with claims on one's own throne, republicans, communists & anarchists of various sorts.

As you get late in the game, one of the last things a monarch talks about is the nature and power of the monarchy itself. Take a look into the (relatively new) play King Charles III (yes thát King Charles III (assuming he takes "Charles" as his regnal name!)). It very much touches on some of the things a modern monarch will be talking about involving politics.