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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... Netherlands into an open revolt . The break- down of Spanish authority there by the mid - 1560s was answered by the dispatch northward of an army under the Duke of Alba and by the imposition of a military despotism - in turn provoking ...
... Netherlands into an open revolt . The break- down of Spanish authority there by the mid - 1560s was answered by the dispatch northward of an army under the Duke of Alba and by the imposition of a military despotism - in turn provoking ...
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... Netherlands has exhausted our treasury and forced us into the debts that we have incurred , it has also diverted our enemies in those parts so that , had we not done so , it is certain that we would have had war in Spain or somewhere ...
... Netherlands has exhausted our treasury and forced us into the debts that we have incurred , it has also diverted our enemies in those parts so that , had we not done so , it is certain that we would have had war in Spain or somewhere ...
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... Netherlands ; the Portuguese saw the sense of supporting the defense of the New World , but had no enthusiasm for German wars . This intense localism had contributed to , and was reflected by , jealously held fiscal rights . In Sicily ...
... Netherlands ; the Portuguese saw the sense of supporting the defense of the New World , but had no enthusiasm for German wars . This intense localism had contributed to , and was reflected by , jealously held fiscal rights . In Sicily ...
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