As a dynastic ruler everything that you done was to increase your land holding and power. Love and war are both different strategies to try and increase both of these. From my study of dynastic rulers I found that love was the more effective way to increase your power and your children’s future power and prospects. During this period some very well-known dynastic rulers like Maximillian I depended on both love and war. In this essay I will argue how making love instead of war was a more effective way of gaining land and power. The dynastic ruler that I will be focusing on is Maximillian I and the family that came from him. It was the beginning of the early modern period that the use of a monarchy had begun to come into practice. There was always