Austrian Empire

The rise of Prussia within the German Empire began with Frederick William, the “Great Elector” (1640-1688), through shrewd diplomatic maneuvering and efficient domestic governance. Frederick William unified many of the scattered territories into the most powerful Protestant state and turned these territories into a unified state, to become a leading political player in northern Europe. This was a critical step in the rise of Prussia because if the smaller territories could not have been unified…

Nationalism Essay Nationalism is the sense of loyalty to one’s nation — has been widespread throughout history. Prior to the 19th century, nationalism was seen in Dynasties in China, The Maurya and Gupta Empire. Nationalism first developed in Europe. Europe nations were already industrialized. In size of the world was shrinking in the 19th century. Nationalism spread by the certain commonalities, like common language, common history, common culture, common religion and common ethnicity.…

of the 1690’s, an adversary far more powerful than the French and beyond the control of popes, kings, or political tradition was looming over the Spanish Empire. Charles II, “the bewitched,” was clearly ill and unlikely to produce any heirs to the Spanish throne. Subsequently, the maneuvering began between the French and the Austrian branch of the Habsburg family for the Spanish succession. (213) King Charles II’s death in 1700 marked the end of the Habsburg Dynasty in Spain.…

pretensions. He (it was required to be a he) sat at the apex of a system of local, regional and empire-wide legislative, judicial and diplomatic structures. The Holy Roman Empire, during its final two centuries, starting with the Thirty Years ' War (1618-1648) (the primary focus of this review) was roughly contiguous with today 's Germany, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Belgium and northem Italy. Modern maps of the Empire portray a chaotic congeries of over 300 entities awaiting the destiny of…

The First World War was an incredibly complicated conflict involving numerous state actors each with their motivations and war aims. In this respect, it presents one of the greatest challenges for those who seek to prove theories of war in the international system. The first theory of the conflict we will examine is one of the most popular, the rise of European nationalism necessitating a grand struggle of nations. Instead of the traditionally dominant realist theories revolving around the…

staff of the Prussian Army, used the railway efficiently led to Prussia’s military was able to move rapidly and his skillful tactics helped Prussia to win the war. The breech-loading needle gun gave the Prussian army a decisive superiority over the Austrians who were still using the old muzzle-loading rifles . In addition, Bismarck isolated that Austria would not gain…

997664825 POL301Y1 – Government and Politics in Africa Professor Wilson Prichard Wednesday, November 5, 2014 II. Arrangements and Maintenance of the Colonial State Much of the colonial history of Nigeria begins in 1807. At the time, the British Empire influenced much of the territories that now form the current Nigeria. With the introduction of the slave trade, the country’s colonial history begins quite early. Over the next century, British control over Nigeria increased gradually. There are…

Three Empires. Over the next forty years, the ever-fluid situation in the Balkans ebbed and flowed, but never strayed far from a point of complete catastrophe. The decaying behemoth of the Porte disintegrated, replaced with a proliferation of nascent Southern Slav states, intent on empowering their particular clade with no regard to the tensions pervading Europe. Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s…

Britain were both allied to France, they formalized defensive treaties at the Anglo-Russian Convention in 1907. Other countries such as Russia and Serbia were supportive of each other on the basis of common ethnicity of Slavic people. The Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria allied themselves with Germany and Austria-Hungary due to national pride and a sense of revenge as Bulgaria had lost a battle to Serbia in 1913. Thus, countries all over the Eastern Hemisphere inadvertently found…

within the Ottoman Empire. It is estimated that during the early 20th Century, over 1.5 million Christian Armenians in that region lost their lives, and consequently, their land at the hands of the Ottoman and Turkish governments. Welcome to the Armenian Genocide. The very beginnings of the Armenian Genocide took place in a country where the Armenian minority had less social…