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The best examples of New Monarchs are, chronologically:


Achievements of the New Monarchs:

  • Limiting the power of the Feudal Aristocracy

  • Creating efficient, centralized systems of Tax ation

  • Maintaining a standing Army loyal to the monarch

  • Encouraging some sense of national identity (but by no means Nationalism )

  • Fostering Trade , both internally and externally

  • Enforcing religious unity within their countries


While Peter I Of Russia ruled two centuries after the New Monarchs, he is sometimes considered the New Monarch of Russia , accomplishing much for his country similar to what the New Monarchs did for theirs.

After the New Monarchs, the Absolutist Monarchs gained sway, to be followed by the Enlightened Despot s.