HIST 122 Lecture 8: Hist 122 week 8
26 Oct 2016
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Samurai japanses looking at christanity through experiences on the seas. New market ties between cities and the countryside. Modern states what do we mean by modern . High tech weapons, war, institutional consolidation and expanding markets. States gain ability to tax and police their populations more effectively allows them to control their populations more effectively stage 1. Small polities (states) low tech skilled hereditary warriors lots of nobility status depends on loyalty not a lot of money transaction. High tech weapons crossbow, gunpowder (canons) more expensive to produce expand size of armies definitive battles - one side completely defeated. Mass, paid recruits mercenaries in modern society usa spends the most on their weapons. Absolutism in latin europe : one faith, one law, one king. Henry viii (henry the 8th) (after 1529 estrangement from rome), wanted to leave his wife political move had to create a new church so he could divorce her. Location ? western part of the mediteraniean.
