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[Ibrahim]

Yes.

Mark Antony was awesome though. Great character.

and a great dick

anyways, the seleucid system of governance work the same way as the Acaemenid dynasty: the king was viewed as divine, and was considered head of state. then came the satraps; usually family, but also "trusted" men. their job was to collect the taxes and bring it to the king. they also kept peace, maintaine a garrison, and dealt with any problems in the king's abcense. in other words, the system was relatively decentralized. this is part of the reason why they fell; a guy can easily usurp the throne for himself. he can secretly mint coins, not to the king, but himself. he can even use his army to attack the satrapies. TPC has better info on this.

the kingdom used the same basic system most greek stats used (mnai, staters, drachmas., etc)