The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe. |
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... Habsburg lands in Austria . As the Emperor Charles V , therefore , he embodied all four inheritances until his abdications of 1555-1556 ( see Map 3 ) . Only a few years later , in 1526 , the death of the childless King Louis of Hungary ...
... Habsburg lands in Austria . As the Emperor Charles V , therefore , he embodied all four inheritances until his abdications of 1555-1556 ( see Map 3 ) . Only a few years later , in 1526 , the death of the childless King Louis of Hungary ...
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... Habsburg influence - and the same was true of Philip II's efforts to suppress the religious unrest in the Netherlands after 1566 ; and true , for that matter , of the dispatch of the Spanish Armada to invade England in 1588. In sum ...
... Habsburg influence - and the same was true of Philip II's efforts to suppress the religious unrest in the Netherlands after 1566 ; and true , for that matter , of the dispatch of the Spanish Armada to invade England in 1588. In sum ...
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... Habsburg struggle continued . It became purely a Franco - Spanish one later in the year when the Peace of Westphalia ( 1648 ) at last brought tranquillity to Germany , and allowed the Austrian Habsburgs to retire from the conflict ...
... Habsburg struggle continued . It became purely a Franco - Spanish one later in the year when the Peace of Westphalia ( 1648 ) at last brought tranquillity to Germany , and allowed the Austrian Habsburgs to retire from the conflict ...
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