early modern polity

C3245 concept

An early modern polity is a territorially bounded, politically organized community between roughly 1500 and 1800 that exercised authority through evolving institutions of governance, law, and sovereignty amid processes of state formation and imperial expansion.

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  • early modern empire ×2
  • early modern European state ×1
  • early modern political category ×1
  • early modern political organization ×1

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