8. How did the monarchy change during the Old Babylonian period?

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The monarchy changed during the Old Babylonian period because the idea of the monarch changed to the idea that the monarch was a god and "had a divine origin". The new monarchy invented ways to administer the state and its resources by taxation and involuntary military service. The new monarchy also used centralization, the act of consolidating power under a central control. They took the power of the individual cities and invested it into the monarch in order to make power over a large area possible.

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