House of Habsburg

As the Habsburg decline war breaks out between Austria and Prussia, heir to the throne is assassinated and various ethnic groups break up declaring the independence they’d yearned for, thus establishing a republic. “The Habsburgs reached the zenith of power before the end of the 16th century: the duchy of Milan, annexed by Charles V in 1535, was assigned by his son, the future Philip II of Spain, in 1540; Philip II, conquered Portugal in 1580; and the Spanish dominions in America were over expanding. There were, however, three faults” as John Graham Royde-Smith said. This paper is meant to explain how the Habsburgs fell through their faults and what caused this to be the precursor for a republic to rise One thing that caused the Habsburgs to decline was that war had broke out. Various people such as the Czechs and Hungarians were unsatisfied with Austrian rule. In 1848, ”Revolution was in the air, and localized conflicts occur throughout the…

The Habsburg Family Andrew Overton The Hapsburg Family was one of the most powerful families in the world, who dominated the political landscape across Europe for much of the Medieval ages and throughout the Renaissance. The Hapsburg family ruled a large variety of different nations throughout its reign, including the Holy Roman Empire, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sicily, Hungary-Croatia, colonial possessions in the New World, and other nations. The Hapsburgs were an incredibly powerful royal house…

Inbreeding: It is something that we feel, as a society, we have moved entirely away from, and yet it still haunts and evokes a deep fear within us that something so sinister could have happened among us. Edgar Allen Poe, in his work the Fall of the House of Usher, brings the sinister consequences of inbreeding front and center, yet he still manages to do it quite subtly. One of many themes, inbreeding is key to fully understanding the plot and the deeper messages of the Fall of the House of…

The Thirty Years War which lasted from 1618 until 1648 and engulfed the entire continent of Europe in a state of war. The Thirty Years War was caused by religious divisions among the protestants and the Roman Catholics in a struggle for the balance of power. The Thirty Years War had many consequences and benefits for different countries, but undoubtedly changed Europe in religious, social, and political ways. In the war between the Protestants and the Roman Catholic Church, the Protestants…

the age of twelve she began her apprenticeship as a seamstress. At the age of 18 she left her short time husband and moved to London by herself. It was there that she worked as a hospital seamstress for a bit then spent time as a fitter for Kate Reily a well-known British dress maker. Vionnet later returned to Paris and began working for the Callot Soeurs Fashion House. She worked under…

The Thirty Years War was a series of conflicts in Europe from 1618-1648. The conflicts were fought mostly in Germany. A Protestant revolt against the Roman Empire began the war, it eventually involved most of Europe. In its final years, religion divided power between Austria and Spain on one side and France on the other. The war proved that neither Catholics nor Protestants were powerful enough to take over Europe. Freedom of worship became limited in all countries; however, it was tolerated in…

ultimately) global mastery could begin. Thus, this was the fundamental basis for both the Bourbon Monarchy (France) and the Habsburg Empire (Austria) in The War of Spanish Succession. Moreover, the desire to attain Spain would lead to an global war, where a myriad of nations each beholding their own motives, endeavored to either restore the quasi-peace that Europe had possessed, or plummet into another…

In October of 1740, Charles VI died. It was time for Maria Theresa, then 23 years old, to succeed to the Habsburg throne. Subjects of her crown lands—the Austrian duchies and Netherlands, and Bohemia and Hungary—were quick to accept Maria Theresa as their empress. But Maria Theresa immediately faced resistance to her succession from European powers who had previously agreed to her father’s Pragmatic Sanction. Under the leadership of Frederick II, King of Prussia, those powers formed a coalition…

Marie Olympe de Gouges was born as Marie Gouzes in Montauban, France on December 31, 1748. Her parentage is unclear, because it is rumored that her mother had an affair, but she grew up with parents Pierre Gouze, a butcher, and Anne Olympe Moisset, a maidservant. She did not attend school and was completely self-educated. By the time she turned seventeen, she married Louis Aubrey, a French police officer, and they had a son named Pierre Aubrey. Three years into the marriage, Louis Aubrey…

Volkheimer. Meanwhile, Marie Laure and her father live in Paris, France. She has rapidly deteriorating eyesight and soon loses her ability to see. Her father tries to make her life easier by making a scale model of the city in which they live and by buying her books in braille. When France is bombed, Marie Lare and her father, who is entrusted with a sacred diamond called the Sea of Flames, escape to her Great Uncle, Etienne 's, house Saint Malo. Her father is arrested under suspicion and…