Practice question · Put in order
Arrange the stages by which a king’s authority grew beyond that of an ordinary lord.
- Royal courts attract litigation away from seigneurial courts
- War costs exceed what the royal estates can yield
- Permanent officials keep written records of rights and revenues
- The king holds land and receives dues as the greatest lord among lords
- Assemblies are summoned to consent to extraordinary taxation
Hints
- The sequence begins with lordship and ends with taxation.
- Assemblies appear only once the fiscal demand has outgrown ordinary revenue.
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- The king holds land and receives dues as the greatest lord among lords
- Royal courts attract litigation away from seigneurial courts
- Permanent officials keep written records of rights and revenues
- War costs exceed what the royal estates can yield
- Assemblies are summoned to consent to extraordinary taxation
Why
The order matters because the last step depends on all the others. A ruler cannot ask a kingdom for a tax until there is a kingdom-wide administration capable of assessing and collecting one, which is why the assemblies appear after the archives and the courts, not before.
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