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started in the country, people counted on him to protect the King’s Family. The new position caused him to start getting attacked by the groups that wanted to gain power, so in 1792 Marquis de Lafayette fled the country but he was soon caught by Austrian men and brought back into the country in 1799. When Napoleon Bonaparte became the emperor and took over France Lafayette decided that he should lay for a while, until he was chosen to be apart of the Chamber of Deputies during the Hundred Days…

whereas the Divine Right of Kings protected at least the institution if not monarch. The Social Contract protected neither. According to many a serious breach of a nation’s social contract by the monarch, entitled the ‘people’, to revisit the terms completely. In all three Revolutions, the Crown fought for its ancestral rights and privileges, it lost every time. The crowns victorious opponents regarded these offensives, as attacks on the Social Contract by the Monarchy. With the ‘contracts’ null…

The Downfall of the French Revolution The country’s debt, excessive taxation, food shortages, and people’s frustration with the king in his inability to deal with declining living conditions were a catalyst that led to the French Revolution. France was the most powerful and populous nation in Europe. In the early 1700s, France had a population around 19 million, about three times that of England, approximately six times that of the United Netherlands, and six times the number of Finns and…

revolutions are successful, they will continue to spread much-needed change against the nobility while eventually giving way to more moderate policies that will help us in the long term. If the revolutions in France and Germany succeed, economic liberalism and its proponents will eventually dominate Europe’s political and financial systems. The conservatism preached by Metternich and his friends in the nobility is outdated and cannot last much longer. To realize the truth in this, all you must…

Jake Mirto Mr. Dormer Global Studies 10 5/08/15 Nationalism and Imperialism played a huge role in the outbreak of World War I. Nationalism is the modern concept that people who share the same customs, culture, language, and history should share the same government. It became the most powerful European political ideology of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Imperialism is taking over a country or territory by a stronger nation with dominating political, economic, and social…

near Austrian forces to be as obnoxious as possible (Turner, 740). Austria would do the predicted, they went to war with the support of Saxony, Hesse-Kassel, and Hanover. As sixth weeks passed, Prussia dealt with Austria one of the most humiliating and devastating defeats. Dubbed as The Seven Weeks’ War, it ultimately resulted in a decisive victory of the Prussians at Königgrätz in Bohemia (Taylor 74). With such success, the Treaty of Prague ended the conflict on terms that the Austrian…

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth once was a large kingdom. Its political problems began in 1654-1667 when Bogdon Chelmenytsky, a Cossack, pledged to Russia, devastated the kingdom. Just prior to its division among Russia, Prussia, and Austria, Poland's Jewish population reached 430,000 (excluding Eastern Galicia). In Lithuania, there were 157,300 Jews. History of the Jewish People. The economic breakdown in the Commonwealth in the second half of the 17th century has often been seen as a…

France and inspire others nations to be independent. Why? Because the hungry, needy voices of the Third Estate echoed throughout France; voices that could not be neglected for long. It all began with the indecisive, pompous King Louis XVI and his Austrian wife Marie Antoinette. Succeeding his grandfather’s rule, which had run up extreme debt in France, the newlywed couple seemed apathetic to the cry for help. People snickered in the streets about Louis fiddling around with locks, instead of…

as during the 17th century, the legal system across Europe was changing to reflect the centralizing power of the crown or lack thereof. The new legal systems tried to reflect a desire for empiricism and order in a violent world once ruled by the nobility. A major aspect of the legal system at this time is corporal and capital punishment. In modern terms, capital punishment is rare and is reserved for the most…

others nations to be independent. Why? Because the hungry, needy voices of the Third Estate echoed throughout France; voices that could not be neglected for long. It all began with the monarchs, as most uprisings do, King Louis XVI and his Austrian wife Marie Antoinette. Tensions evolved rapidly as a dark cloud hung over France- one that showered us with crop failure and food shortages. People hit the epitome of savage as they run wild in mobs raiding bakeries and stealing bread out of…