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THE MODERN STATE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Italy
      - Germany
  - - - great economic
      - strategic importance
    - - most powerful authoritarian monarchies of the continent
- - - - growth in disposable wealth
        
        proceeds from taxes
  - - - create new ones
  - - - control the power of the nobility
      - administrate the kingdom's resources more effectively
      - consolidate their authority
      - in relation to other monarchs, maintain a strong position of power
    - - strengthened bureaucracy
        
        composed of
        
        officials directly under their control
        
        supervised the kingdom's affairs
        
        monarchs were able to
        
        maintain effective control of their possessions
      - new institutions
        
        serve them
        
        the power
        
        gradually increased
        
        reduced
        
        autonomy of the feudal lords
        
        special legislations introduced in the Middle Ages
        
        centralised power by creating them
      - formed powerful armies of mercenaries
        
        used to subdue the nobles
        
        prohibited the nobles from forming their own armies
        
        created a diplomatic body
        
        establish alliances with other states or kingdoms
      - monarch
        
        established a
        
        court
        
        permanent seat
        
        for these new institutions to function well
        
        became the capital of their kingdom
- - - - conquests of Ivan III the Great
        
        15th century
      - Ivan IV the Terrible
        
        16th century
    - - the title of tsar
      - emperor
  - - - after its unification with Lithuania
  - - - took control of Constantinople
      - large part of the Balkan Peninsula
    - - conquered
        
        Syria
        
        Egypt
        
        part of Arabia
    - - took control of
        
        northern Africa
        
        subdued Hungary
      - he was stopped in Austria
        
        by the German Emperor