Look at Map 23.1, Sixteenth-century Europe. Why did Europe divide into a collection of sovereign states and not attain the level of the greater empires that occurred in China, India, and the Islamic lands? Why didn't the Holy Roman Empire reach the level of power and grandeur that its name implied? What were the consequences of this competition?
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