Prompt
Read the excerpts from Machiavellis The Prince and discuss how this text changed perceptions of how power should be wielded in Europe. Base your discussion on the readings and the lectures.
Lecture
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1232/1232-h/1232-h.htm
Please read the following chapters:
Chapter 1: How Many Kinds Of Principalities There Are, And By What Means They Are Acquired
Chapter 2: Concerning Hereditary Principalities
Chapter 3: Concerning Mixed Principalities
Chapter 5: Concerning The Way To Govern Cities Or Principalities Which Lived Under Their Own Laws Before They Were Annexed
Chapter 8: Concerning Those Who Have Obtained A Principality By Wickedness
Chapter 12: How Many Kinds Of Soldiery There Are, And Concerning Mercenaries
Chapter 17: Concerning Cruelty And Clemency, And Whether It Is Better To Be Loved Than Feared