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The State Talkend About the 16th Century
The state came into being to enable princes to wage war in the sixteenth century. With weapons development, it was no longer possible to wage war simply with cavalry and a few infantry hanging on. The only way in which you could get the money to buy professionals was to get it from your tenants, or your subjects,. That meant yououd have to have taxes. And there grew up what ultimately became parliaments, or estates, or whatever you might gare to term them.