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How were the powerful monarchies of northern europe different from their predecessors?

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Sovereign rulers move from feudal monarchy to national powers. Some of the dynastic aims of the feudal monarchy remain.

Explanation:

The feudal monarchy in the middle ages marked by the division of powers between the king and vassals. The aristocracy and the towns worked with unity and progress through establishing assemblies, like the French Estates-General, the English Parliament, and the Spanish Cortes, to prevent the consolidation of royal power. After the Hundred Years War and the East-West Schism, the aristocracy and the clergy decline which led to the beginning of the national monarchies.

There was a new alliance between kings and town that left the feudal culture and embraced the beginning of sovereign states.

In a sovereign state, taxes, wars, and laws become national, rather than regional matters. Only as monarchs became able to work independently and elected assemblies.

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