Aim:%20Why%20does%20the%20power%20of%20Kings%20rise%20and%20Popes%20fall?

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Aim Why does the power of Kings rise and Popes
fall?
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Significance of Crusades Increased Power of
Kings

• Military organizations are led by kings
• National taxation instituted to pay for Crusades
  and collected by king
• Nobility exhausts its financial resources
  fighting far from home

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State-Building in Europe the Rise of National
Monarchies

• Kings as national leaders in Crusades
• New military technologies the longbow and
  crossbow make knights obsolete
• Alliances between Kings and townspeople increase
  the power of both
• Decline of competing powers Church and Nobility

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City-States had the advantage of drawing upon
citizen participation and loyalty, but they were
often not sufficiently large or militarily strong
to defend themselves. Empires could win battles
but they drew on little voluntary participation
and were too large to inspire any deep loyalties.
The new National Monarchies were to prove the
midpoint between the extremes. They were large
enough to have military strength and they drew
upon citizen participation and loyalty to help
support them in times in stress.
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Pressures on the Church

• Decline of prestige as Crusades prove a fiasco
• Increased power of Kings, as shown in Great
  Schism - two, then three Popes
• Decline of income from feudal estates
• Challenge of new ideas from Islamic world
• Response Thomas Aquinas Scholasticism