Editing New Monarchs (section)

==Achievements==
The achievements of the New Monarchs:

*Limiting the power of the [[feudalism|feudal]] [[aristocracy (class)|aristocracy]]
*Creating efficient, centralized systems of [[tax]]ation
*Maintaining a standing [[army]] loyal to the monarch
*Encouraging some sense of national identity (but by no means [[nationalism]] yet)
*Fostering [[trade]], both internally and externally
*Enforcing religious unity within their countries

While [[Peter the Great]] ruled two centuries after the New Monarchs, he is sometimes considered the New Monarch of [[Russia]], accomplishing for his country very much what the New Monarchs did for theirs.

After the New Monarchs, the [[Absolutism (European history)|Absolutist Monarchs]] gained sway, to be followed by the [[Enlightened Absolutism]].