ATS1873 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Commercial Revolution, Feudalism
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Feudalism (fall of rome, lead to dark ages, castles were small political units with overlapping networks of authority), commercial. Revolution (1250, merchant class) needed consistent regulation, standardised currency and units of measurement)), gunpowder. Divine right of kings, no nationalism, you were a subject of the monarch. Monarchs would all hold each other accountable, if one was challenging the state system, balance of power (realism), excepting napoleon. Popular sovereignty: enlightenment, government should exist for the people. Culminated in french revolution, scaring other monarchs, turned into a dictatorship u(cid:374)der (cid:862)e(cid:373)peror(cid:863) napoleo(cid:374), (cid:449)ho did(cid:374)"t clai(cid:373) the divine right of kings, started conscription. Adversaries had to copy to defeat, meaning severe scale of napoleonic wars. Nationalism: why people were willing to fight and die for rulers. (cid:862)the political ideolog(cid:455) that prizes and exults in the nation as the primary a(cid:374)d e(cid:454)clusi(cid:448)e source of allegia(cid:374)ce(cid:863) (cid:894)de(cid:448)etak, (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1005)7(cid:895).
