POL101Y1 Final: note for exam

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Gets at one of the core problems of politics. you"re in a dangerous area, you are held at gun point, you offer the person money for their gun, they kill you and take your money. He who controls the sword controls the gold. Democracies still live in a world of states: the states that exist in the world own armies. Those who fail to field armies get taken over. poland had a very decentralized government, failed to vote for taxes, and essentially weren"t able to defend themselves and were split up. don"t have an army, you risk losing your state: if you have an army, it matters what kind of army. feudal armies = made up from the nobility and the aristocracies. It was true in europe and in japan. What made nobles noble was that they fought.