I spent 10 minutes trying to come up with a witty take but there's too much going on here :agony-acid:

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    a very democratic type of nobility

    wut

    • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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      4 years ago

      like all the nobles in the country got together in a big chamber and voted on stuff. The king was very very weak. Eventually just one noble could veto anything so literally nothing got done after a certain point. Poor people were kept out and serfs were still treated like shit but since the requirements to be considered a noble were so loose a lot of middle class merchant types snuck in too. Poland would later be one of the hotbeds of republican revolution during the Napoleonic wars.

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Interesting, totally no idea about the Napoleon part.