Absolute and Parliamentary Monarchies
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World History [1]
Absolute Monarchy
In post-feudal Europe, countries became solid political units with fixed borders, a sense of national unity and mostly homogeneous populations in terms of language and ethnicity.
Some important centralizing rulers were Henry VIII and Elizabeth I of England, Louis XI and Henry IV of France, Charles V (Habsburg) of the Holy Roman Empire, Philip II of Spain and Ivan III and Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) of Russia.