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You need massive amounts of wealth to gain and maintain a monopoly on violence. So they did both.
Also if you possess a monopoly on violence wealth is not difficult to obtain
And once you have that wealth you NEED a monopoly on violence to maintain it, which requires more wealth, and so on.