NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
EUROPEAN NATION STATES
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the death of King Richard in the Crusades.
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abuses of royal power by King John.
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a crisis in papal succession.
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peasant revolts following a famine.
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Detailed explanation-1: -He raised taxes in England much higher than they had been before, causing officials to become more and more oppressive in the way they collected these taxes. Raising taxes made John increasingly unpopular with the English barons, whom the king relied on to assist him in governing the kingdom.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1215 they forced the tyrannical King John to agree to the charter. The Magna Carta stated that the king must follow the law and could not simply rule as he wished. It was one of the first documents to state that citizens had such rights.
Detailed explanation-3: -1166-died October 18/19, 1216, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England), king of England from 1199 to 1216. In a war with the French king Philip II, he lost Normandy and almost all his other possessions in France. In England, after a revolt of the barons, he was forced to seal the Magna Carta (1215).
Detailed explanation-4: -By declaring the sovereign to be subject to the rule of law and documenting the liberties held by “free men, ” the Magna Carta provided the foundation for individual rights in Anglo-American jurisprudence.