Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each development to what it replaced.
- Standing armies
- Permanent bureaucracy
- Codified territorial law
- Fixed borders
- Feudal levies owed for limited periods
- Local custom and personal jurisdiction
- Frontier zones and overlapping claims
- Administration by the ruler's household
Hints
- Each modern feature displaced a specific medieval arrangement.
- The household is what the bureaucracy replaced.
Show the answer
- Standing armies → Feudal levies owed for limited periods
- Permanent bureaucracy → Administration by the ruler's household
- Codified territorial law → Local custom and personal jurisdiction
- Fixed borders → Frontier zones and overlapping claims
Why
Setting them out as replacements rather than inventions is the accurate framing. Each modern feature solved a problem the older arrangement had solved differently, and generally worse under the new conditions of expensive, continuous war.
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