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Why Did Small European States Acquire So Much Power

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There are a number of reasons that the small European states prospered and accumulated so much power during those centuries. The first reason was because they had wars frequently and that led to “the development of a particular kind of national state as the most successful form of European state” (84). Since the European wars were expensive and the European states participated in them a lot, they either had to tax their people or provide loans to people to bring in revenue. European rulers of the states used force to basically get their way, if needed, to help themselves during war. Living in this “war-driven environment” (88) some of the states had an advantage that led to them having large cities with a high capital and population to maintain
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