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Charles V and the Failure of Empire

Tides of History

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The Rise and Fall of Charles the Great

Charles was King of Castile and Aragon, which were large and wealthy kingdoms in their own right. He also held Austria and the hereditary Habsburg lands in Central Europe. Every polity in Europe at this point was less a top-down, unified state than a mishmash of various territories,. Each with its own laws, institutions, and power brokers that happened to come together in dynastic figure.

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