How did absolutism happen?

Absolutism was primarily motivated by the crises of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Protestant Re formation (1517–1648) had led to a series of violent and bloody wars of religion, in the course of which thou sands of innocents met their deaths.

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c. troops marched forward in close formation against newer, more accurate weapons

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