2007-11-16 16:54:41 · 5 answers · asked by michael 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
It paved the way for a centralized, nation state.
Prior to its becoming the "norm" of government, the nobility of nearly all countries were waging incessant warfare. "What's mine is mine, and what's yours, is going to be mine".
All of the Catholic countries, and some of the Protestant, supported the concept of the monarchs "divine right" to govern, because it made for a much more secure, stable and peaceful state of affairs.
And the poor peasants were more than glad to have an authority to whom they could appeal over the heads of their immediate overlords.
In the final analysis, I would say that it served a very useful purpose of bringing order and relative peace to most of the continent, and the British isles.
Wotan
2007-11-16 17:46:42 · answer #1 · answered by Alberich 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure this is totally correct, but they could do anything they wanted to, there was no vote of the people and if they married someone they didn't like and they were not allowed by the religion to divorce, they just cut her head off. Once the head person in France said when they people were poor' Oh let them eat cake in the streets" because she only cared about herself and most people were so so poor and the head people were wearing diamonds and jewels while the common people were starving.
2007-11-16 17:03:16 · answer #2 · answered by I Love Jesus 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i trust the question ability that wat triggered the rivalry, and then flow into element about the justifications. discuss wat it meant for will. and mary to receive the throne( very last result on different global places-France) and the competition for land and change in us of a( consciousness on Canadian forts also) almost as good because the replace in faith. there'll continually be conflicts between Protestantism and Catholicism, use their positive factors to describe it extra.
2016-10-24 09:23:05 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, since most kings/queens were thought to have been ordained by God, it gave them complete power over those below them....people trusted that God had chosen them and therefore they should be good leaders...even if they weren't.
2007-11-16 17:03:17 · answer #4 · answered by jalamagirl 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes- but i forgot how.
2007-11-16 16:56:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋