War drove the piecemeal construction of the early modern state apparatus

Evidence

The whole State apparatus that rulers were putting together piecemeal was largely a by-product of war. During its adolescence, the sixteenth and seventeenth Centuries, fighting was almost continuous; later on it grew rather more intermittent. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1508

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relevant to the sacrifice article’s theme of state-building violence, though tangential.