Taken from wikipedia :'Imperial Purple (Tyrian Purple): Ancient Greece and Rome Main article: Tyrian purple Tyrian Purple :The actual color of Tyrian purple, the original color purple from which the name purple is derived, is the color of a dye made from a mollusk that, because of its incredible expense (many times more expensive than gold), in antiquity became a symbol of royalty because only the very wealthy could afford it. Therefore, Tyrian purple is also called imperial purple.Tyrian purple may have been discovered as early as the time of the Minoan civilization. Alexander the Great (when giving imperial audiences as the emperor of the Macedonian Empire), the emperors of the Seleucid Empire, and the kings of Ptolemaic Egypt wore Tyrian purple. The imperial robes of Roman emperors were Tyrian purple trimmed in metallic gold thread. The badge of office of a Roman Senator was a stripe of Tyrian purple on their white toga.[2]Tyrian purple was continued in use by the emperors of the Eastern Roman Empire until its final collapse in 1453.Royal PurpleThis shade of purple is bluer than the ancient Tyrian purple.In medieval Europe, blue dyes were rare and expensive , so only the most wealthy or the aristocracy could afford to wear them.wore mainly green and brown. Because of this (and also because Tyrian purple had gone out of use in western Europe after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476), Europeans' idea of purple shifted towards this more bluish purple known as royal purple because of its similarity to the royal blue worn by the aristocracy. This was the shade of purple worn by kings in medieval Europe.'As you can see purple is clearly the awesome and dominant colour.I would say discuss but purple is just so awesome everybody will just agree with me.
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