Speaking of feelings of displacement by the industrial revolution (not to mention humiliating results of the Prussian war) this is what led the German farmer as well as the German Coffee House University Intellectual to be sympathetic to the concept of Lebensraum and need to return to “natural ...
After the fall of the Roman Empire, Western European feudalism developed but was significantly different. What was the difference? Rome and Feudal Europe: The collapse of the Western Roman Empire is typically date at 476 AD. The relative peace and stabil...
On 13 October 1760, as a consequence of the ongoing hostilities between Prussian and Imperial troops in the Seven Years War, a relentless hail of bombs, grenades, and ‘fire balls’ rained down on the Saxon town of Wittenberg. According to the theology professor Christian Siegmund Georgi (1702...
The Franco-Prussian War was fought between France and Prussia in 1870-1871. Many historians believe Prussia more or less provoked the war with France in order to foster German national unity. The Franco-Prussian War led directly to German unification, or the formation of the modern nation-state...
In antiquity, it was probably Rome which came closest to creating this kind of attachment among its citizens, setting it in a rather unique position among its competitors. This in part explains how for centuries the Roman Republic and then the Empire created a kind of mystique and morale ...
They were no match for the knights but they could ambush the Prussian settlers who followed, lead them into the marshes. She could feel a change inside of her as her fingers tightened around the hilt of her knife. She watched and waited for nightfall, prayed Dalia offered a fate better ...
World War I was one of the two major wars of the twentieth century. It had ramifications which would completely change the social, political and economic culture of most European nations. Answer and Explanation: The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire on June ...
To Imperialism in the light political sense, therefore, my only objection is that it is an illusion of comfort; that an Empire whose heart is failing should be specially proud of the extremities, is to me no more sublime a fact than that an old dandy whose brain is gone should still be...
What caused the Second Battle of Ypres? What battle ended WWI? Who fired the first shot in WW1? What caused the Carlist Wars? Who did Austria declare war on in WW1? What happened to the Austrian Empire after WWI? A) What were the causes that brought the U.S. into WWI and WWII?
World War I began in 1914 and ended in 1918. It was a war between the Allied Powers, consisting of Great Britain, France, and Russia, and the Central Powers, consisting of Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire. ...