To demonstrate a more advanced understanding of the growth of state power in France, Prussia, Austria, Russia, and England, fill in the chart below by describing developments in each state in four areas where seventeenth-century governments achieved new levels of control: taxation, the armed forces, bureaucracies, and the ability to compel obedience from subjects. How did the growth of the state in England differ from the growth of the state in absolutist France, Prussia, Russia, and Austria?

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