9 sentences with “monarchies”

The 18th century saw the rise of five states, all of them monarchies, comprising what would eventually be called the Great Powers.

Romanitas was deeply compatible with Greek Stoicism (which came of age in the Hellenistic monarchies just as Rome itself was expanding).

Almost everywhere else in Europe, other monarchies tried to imitate both the style and substance of Louis XIV's court and style of government.

Absolutism' is a concept of political authority created by historians to describe a change in the governments of the major monarchies of Europe in the early modern period.

The Antigonids ruled over Macedonia and Greece. Despite controlling the heart of Macedonia and Greece itself, the Antigonids were the weakest of the Hellenistic monarchies.

The long-term pattern, from about 1350 - 1500, was for the larger monarchies to expand their territory and wealth, which allowed them to fund better armies, leading to further expansion.

Finally, the Popes struggled to claim the right to intervene in secular affairs as they saw fit, though it was a struggle they rarely won, losing even more ground as the new, more powerful and centralised monarchies came to power in the 15th century.

Monarchs had always linked their identity to war. European monarchies were originally the product of Germanic conquests at the end of the Roman period, and it was a point of great pride among noble families to trace their family lines back to the warlords of old.

However, Renaissance thinking spread through interactions between the kings and nobility of the rest of Europe and the elites of the Italian city-states, especially after a series of wars in the late 15th and early 16th centuries brought the great monarchies of Europe into direct political control in Italy.