The Rise of the Absolutist State in Europe

The sixteenth century is often thought of as the beginning of europe's rise, but you emphasize that this rise was a relative one. In the early modern period, european actors still depended on the east, not only for material goods, but also for ideas,. especially in the realm of universal sovereignty and world empire. How is the rise of the absolutist state in europe conventionally understood? And why, as you argue, does that purported innovation have eastern and specifically ottoman origins?