In Chapters 15 through 17 we learn more about how the countries of Europe modernize and sometimes do not modernize. However, no matter what country you look at in Europe at this time everyone has discontents with their country. This is the beginning of the ideas of revolution and rebelling against one 's country to take control over what the people want them to be and not what their leaders and monarchs want them to be. In Prussia, we were beginning to see how uneducated our people were. We saw the people in other countries and wanted to be as able and intelligent as them. So, we decided to begin to send our male children to school. This upset many of our female people but that wasn 't a priority for our people at this time. Our military at this time was looking to become absolutist, we fought the war of the Austrian Succession for eight long years. During this time we lost many of our people leaving us much more poor than before. Luckily, we had France and England behind us during this war against Austria and we signed the Peace Treaty of Aix-la-chapelle, giving Maria Theresa as the heiress to the Austrian lands. After this eight year long war we had the chance to take Poland. However, we were not
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Even though I would probably have to work extremely long hours, I would have the freedom to think for myself and even have a house to live in. I think that most other countries at this time would be very difficult to live in. In almost every other country the people and government are confused about who they are and what they want their country to be. I think that the worst to live in would be France, even though the idea of being apart of that history is appealing, I do not think I could live in a place filled with violence and death. I think that this answer is quite different from my first, I believe that Britain has grown and modernized greatly since the first chapters we
Even though I would probably have to work extremely long hours, I would have the freedom to think for myself and even have a house to live in. I think that most other countries at this time would be very difficult to live in. In almost every other country the people and government are confused about who they are and what they want their country to be. I think that the worst to live in would be France, even though the idea of being apart of that history is appealing, I do not think I could live in a place filled with violence and death. I think that this answer is quite different from my first, I believe that Britain has grown and modernized greatly since the first chapters we