It's important to note that these sorts of changes towards institutional states took a century or more in most cases. Looking at just Europe, the french had centuries to create their administrative state. Spain tried to do that all at once and that lead to 2 civil wars and the loss of Portugal. The Ottomans had ebbs and flows when it comes to centralized administration and that's because they started 'early' and didn't have a feudal nobility to start with. Meanwhile you have Venice sitting to the side behaving institutionally on the level of the 1960s CIA. History's just not very linear and its very diverse. If you were a feudal landlord would you take some stabs at your autonomy and resources for a generation or two or would you live your best life right now and tell the monarch to deal with the rebelling peasants somehow (don't touch my privileges edition)?

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If I were a landlord I'd have a moat filled with gravy and I'd knight every donkey I came across.

[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

i, too, would be the coolest and chillest of landlords