Las sociedades feudales eran sociedades estamentales. Estas presentaban 3 estamentos: nobleza, clero y el pueblo.
According to Machiavelli's the Prince, princes should act in a practical manner. Machiavelli produced a practical guide to the arts of statecraft, which served the practical needs of the powerful families that emerged in the Italian city-states during the Renaissance. Statecraft involved carefully crafted approaches to the realistic conditions faced by rulers. It was driven less by emotion or morality but reason.
its central location in Europe , its proximity to the Mediterranean Sea
The idea of equality was radical in the 1700s was because they felt like equality really needed to be found and used. Some people liked and disliked equality and everyone felt different about it.