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Why did Louis XIV, Peter the Great, and Frederick the Great all build or expand the state bureaucracy? (1 point)

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to increase the power of the nobility

to expand their territory and foreign influence

to increase national centralization of power

to remove the possibility of peasant revolts

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to increase national centralization of power

They centralized bureaucracies to strengthen royal authority, improve taxation and administration, and reduce the independent power of nobles.