UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1987 · Q6 · 60 marks
Account for the emergence of the national monarchies in Europe in the sixteenth century. Did the monarchs build the national states less by design than by chance?
- Chapter
- Nation-State System
- Topic
- National Monarchies and Louis XIV
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