POL 1101 Chapter Notes -Distributive Justice, Nationstates, Unemployment Benefits
11 Nov 2014
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They are the formation of bloody battles and endured violence: cultural homogeneity, the people broke off into different cultures due to their language since the groups found it hard to communicate with others, the first nation states would emerge around these local linguistic groups, peasant way of life, majority of the people practiced this, the peasant base is very important to the emergence of modern states, allowed the rules to tax the peasants as they saw fit so that the resources can be redirected away from the rural to the urban, by taxing, lords are able to create armies to forge new alliances or to destroy other places, extensive, decentralized, but relatively uniform political structures, despite the mass existence of many different types of authority (religious, secular), they came to share a common understanding f what a sovereign state should look like, by accepting uniform political structures, many smaller authorities were absorbed by the larger authorities.
