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seen as courageous and resilient for the failed securing of Austria’s reacquisition of Silesia (Keithly, “Maria Theresa”). In fact, her entire rivalry with Prussia and Frederick the Great demonstrated a great sense of pride for her country. She was persistent to have the best for her country, even if that meant having full-scale wars against Prussia to obtain Silesia. Although, Maria did not just share her ideologies and intelligence with the Habsburg lands, she passed them on to her children.…

Friedrich Nietzsche has many influential theories, and different views, thoughts, or perspectives on his writings. He was one of the great thinkers of the nineteenth century and still continues to be the object of many debates with his not-so-mainstream views of reason, power and governance. Nietzsche, greatly influenced views of various realms of society, including anything from religion to politics. His background (where he came from, how he influenced the world and in turn how the world…

The Enlightenment stressed reason, logic, criticism and freedom of thought over dogma, blind faith, and superstition. Back then logic wasn’t invented so they thought people like philosophers and other deep thinkers where Enlightened. The thought spread through Europe and North America and became the “Age of Reason” (1685-1815). The Philosopher's were different but at the same time much the same, they all wanted change but not all agreed on what change should happen. The Early Enlightenment,…

ones I view as most important. Nationalism is largely regarded to have been caused by the increasing militancy and territorial ambitions of the larger european countries, essentially people living in countries like poland, greece ukraine, and prussia grew tired of being repeatedly conquered by different countries who viewed them as subject territories. It is unsurprising that a polish individual would want to be part of poland as opposed to Russian or german or Austrian after this kind of…

a light punishment, simply restoring the French domain before Napoleonic Wars. To prevent a rise of a new Napoleon and to contain France, the winning countries formed the Quadruple Alliance composed of Austria, Russia, Prussia, and Great Britain. Later, Russia, Austria and Prussia formed the Holy Alliance, which aimed to keep peace. Concert of Europe is also when the idea of Balance of Power was established.…

The most popular definition for nationalism is a love or loyalty to one’s country, but it is made up of much more. Nationalism is felt by large groups of people who have a common culture. They all experience the same religion, language and history and share a territory. These people often feel that their nation is better, and better off as an autonomous state that rules itself, and they might be willing to go to many extremes to achieve this. This nationalism has affected Italy and Germany as…

In 1830, Britain witnessed another revolution in France, because of this the Whigs, an important fraction of Parliament decided that reform would be necessary in order to ensure that the rising industrial middle class would not revolt. This would eventually lead to the Reform Act of 1832, which gave many new industrial communities a voice in government and allowed the industrial middle class to vote. Thomas Babington Macaulay, a Whig, would argue that this bill would need to pass in order to…

Napoleon Bonaparte was born the 15th of august 1769. Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader. Napoleon Bonaparte gained his power during the French revolution and he also lead many successful campaigns during the revolutionary wars. Napoleon Bonaparte was the emperor of France from 1804 to 1814 and once again in 1815. Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Corsica an island located west of the Italian peninsula. Napoleon Bonaparte was the fourth child in their family and the…

The “Reign of Terror” was a year long period during the French Revolution. This took place in France, it started after the execution of King Louis XVI. The point of it was to preserve their vision of liberty and equality. The year long period of the French Revolution was not justified by using radical methods, ideals that were not met and threats to accomplish the goals of the revolution. To start off, they had radical methods. Execution was by a machine called the guillotine was a “humane”…

The first recorded use of the word euthanasia was by Suetonius (60-140 AD), a Roman historian, upon describing the death of Augustus Caesar although it was not strictly euthanasia but rather orthothanasia which is with-holding treatment causing the the patient to die. In ancient India incurable patients were thrown in the river while in ancient Israel a high dose of frankincense was used. Meanwhile in Mesopotamia, Assyrian physicians forbade the act of euthanasia. In ancient Greece a patient…