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Politics of The British Isles in The Mediaeval Ages
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I will discuss the politics and geopolitics of the British Isles during the mediaeval period.
For people not versed in medieval history, the medieval period is a time of history that existed in the Western world.
Mediaeval history did not exist in other geographic areas of human civilisation because it is predominantly a European historical event when discussing mediaeval history.
Muslim nations, Confucian nations, and nations in the sub-Indian continent did not suffer a political and economic collapse like in Europe after the annihilation of the Western Roman Empire in 476 A.D.
From that date on, until the 1450s, historians regarded the period as the mediaeval period, but some historians pushed the dates until the Napoleonic Wars in the early 19th century.
Some historians date the beginning of the mediaeval period to the 10th century, when states and monarchies started to centralise authority in their respective kingdoms within Europe, ending the states of anarchy with the kingdoms.
What modern contemporaries regard as the mediaeval feudal contract came about due to the collapse of the Roman administrative state in Europe along with the destruction of the Western Roman Empire.
In its place, a military elite ruled Europe.