HIST 1007 Chapter : HIST 11 7 14
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Many were still monarchies, but not dynastic states. Hard not to strengthen empire economically without making it fragile politically. Main difficulty were the serbs, who shared customs and ethnicity in and outside of serbia. Serbs wanted union with serbia: ottoman empire (the turks) had its own slavic, european, and asian communities, and therefore had same reasons to worry as austro- November 7, 2014: germany assembled navy that inspired reaction from britain, who saw this as a threat. Austria-hungary and russia became enemies because of balkan situation; had oftentimes changed borders depending on ethnic communities. Italy, and britain, france, and russia: industrialization and warfare, never before could states mobilize and equip so many men in this industrial society by end of 19th century. To an astonishing degree, planners at: resembles stone if which disturbed would cause an avalanche. If war happened in balkans affecting a great power, high likelihood that it would and could expand greatly.
