Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each feature by whether it belongs to the MEDIEVAL order or to the MODERN state.
Groups: Medieval order · Modern state
- A permanent bureaucracy separable from the ruler's household
- Frontier zones rather than fixed borders
- Codified law applying across a bounded space
- A standing army under the ruler's direct control
- Overlapping jurisdictions with no supreme authority
Hints
- One column has authority without sovereignty.
- Anything permanent, territorial or codified belongs to the modern column.
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Medieval order: Overlapping jurisdictions with no supreme authority, Frontier zones rather than fixed borders
Modern state: A standing army under the ruler's direct control, Codified law applying across a bounded space, A permanent bureaucracy separable from the ruler's household
Why
Read down the modern column and you have a definition by assembly: one authority, one territory, one law, one army, one tax system. Each replaced something that had worked for centuries, which is why the transition took three hundred years rather than a reign.
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