Mercia (other)
la, Merciorum regnum , conventional_long_name = Kingdom of Mercia , common_name = Mercia , status = Kingdom , status_text = Independent kingdom (527–879)Client state of Wessex (879–918) , life_span = 527–918 , era = Anglo-Saxon England , event_start = , date_start = , year_start = 527 , event_end = Annexed by the Kingdom of Wessex , date_end = , year_end = 918 , event1 = , date_event1 = , event2 = , date_event2 = , event3 = , date_event3 = , event4 = , date_event4 = , p1 = Sub-Roman Britain , flag_p1 = , border_p1 = no , p2 = Hwicce , flag_p2 = , p3 = Kingdom of Lindsey , flag_p3 ...
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Client State
A client state, in international relations, is a state that is economically, politically, and/or militarily subordinate to another more powerful state (called the "controlling state"). A client state may variously be described as satellite state, associated state, dominion, condominium, self-governing colony, neo-colony, protectorate, vassal state, puppet state, and tributary state. Controlling states in history Persia, Greece, and Rome Ancient states such as Persia and Parthia, Greek city-states, and Ancient Rome sometimes created client states by making the leaders of that state subservient, having to provide tribute and soldiers. Classical Athens, for example, forced weaker states into the Delian League and in some cases imposed democratic government on them. Later, Philip II of Macedon similarly imposed the League of Corinth. One of the most prolific users of client states was Republican Rome which, instead of conquering and then absorbing into an empire, chose to make clie ...
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