decentralized

Examples of decentralized in the following topics:

• The Eastern Zhou Period

  • In the Spring and Autumn period, power became decentralized as nobles vied for power.
  • During this time, power became increasingly decentralized as regional feudal lords began to absorb smaller powers and vie for hegemony.

• Fragmentation of the Holy Roman Empire

  • In the aftermath of the Reformation, the Holy Roman Empire became fatally divided along religious lines and increasingly decentralized, which eventually led to its gradual demise.
  • The empire gradually evolved into a decentralized, limited elective monarchy composed of hundreds of sub-units, principalities, duchies, counties, Free Imperial Cities, and other domains.

• The Structure of the Holy Roman Empire

  • Although the Habsburgs held the title of Holy Roman Emperor for nearly four centuries, the title was not hereditary and their power over the decentralized empire was limited and separate from their reign over the territories under the Habsburg rule.  
  • In time, the empire evolved into a decentralized, limited elective monarchy composed of hundreds of sub-units, principalities, duchies, counties, free imperial cities, and other domains.

• The Second Intermediate Period

  • The Second Intermediate Period (c. 1650-1550 BCE) spanned the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Dynasties, and was a period in which decentralized rule split Egypt between the Theban-based Seventeenth Dynasty in Upper Egypt and the Sixteenth Dynasty under the Hyksos in the north.

• Feudalism

  • Feudalism, in its various forms, usually emerged as a result of the decentralization of an empire, especially in the Carolingian empires, which lacked the bureaucratic infrastructure necessary to support cavalry without the ability to allocate land to these mounted troops.
  • Power in this period became more personal and decentralized.

• River Valley Civilizations

  • According to Wittfogel, the typical hydraulic empire government has no trace of an independent aristocracy— in contrast to the decentralized feudalism of medieval Europe.

• Crises of the Roman Empire

  • This produced profound changes that, in many ways, foreshadowed the very decentralized economic character of the coming Middle Ages.

• The Potsdam Conference

  • Issuance of a statement of aims of the occupation of Germany by the Allies: demilitarization, denazification, democratization, decentralization and decartelization.

• Mali

  • What made this possible was the decentralized nature of administration throughout the state; yet the mansa managed to keep tax money and nominal control over the area without agitating his subjects into revolt.