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In the year 1600, reigning dynasties appeared to be coming to an end in several states across Eurasia. The symptoms of progressive decline were evident in the autocratic regimes that ruled over England, the Ottoman Empire, India and China. Their problems were not only dynastic but also military and fiscal. In each state, the customary rule for succession was questioned. In addition, powerful internal interest groups opposed the sovereign’s power. Militarily, each of the four states was threatened from both within and without. Finally, each regime was desperately trying to discover a means of financing greatly enlarged armed forces whose personnel had to be paid regularly in cash. Would each dynastic cycle continue under a new lineage or would some alternative form of governance be found?
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Dudley, L. (2017). 1600: The Dynastic Cycle. In: The Singularity of Western Innovation. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-39822-2_2
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