bcaiko
Emperor
I`m the same. I also think it somewhat flies against all intuitive understanding of reality. You don`t expect your people to get more upset the more cities you take. Sure, the captured people might get upset, but not YOUR people.
That`s what throws people. It`s not intuitive.
In a way, what it represents is the social cost of having to administer to these newly acquired places. The war warriness, the corruption, the administrative cost of needing to send your people over there to keep things going. That does tend to make a society unhappy.