Asia

Bloodlines and Marriages that create alliance are the ways of developing a kingdom in Asia. Once a family is chosen as the royal family, the kingdom would continue with the family's heir for every generation to come. Some families may be part of a kingdom for even half a millennium.

Devarajas: Authority based on genetic heredity going back to mythic origins like Buddha.

Articles of faith were doctrine and stories about the life of gods, Holy men and prophets.

Underlying belief system. Shamanism, Polytheism in Mideast. Also believed in Animism, a belief in which that all objects have soul dwelling within them.

Europe

Kings do not use bloodlines to seek out the heir of a throne.

Hobbes 1652: Strong king allowed for peace because in a state of nature every  creature has the right to everything, even in the body of another. 
When a king dies the royal members would exclaim “The king is dead, long live the king”. This statement refers that when a king dies, another king would be replaced immediately. So to say, the physical form of the king may die, but the Status of the king never does.