HIS103Y1 Lecture : HIS103 15. The Congress of Vienna and the Congress System
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The congress of vienna and the congress system. 1814 1815 first time states consciously sit down to write, design and develop a functioning balance of power. However, states still thrived to be the best state and to have total hegemony over all of. With the revolutionary wars and the napoleonic regime made it possible for any state to gain continental domination. If the state mobilized all of its resources it could gain that massive amount of power. Napoleon had shattered the condiments of the balance of. In a way we are present at a unique moment in international history around the year 1814 - 1815 upon the european continent. Because we are privileged witnesses at the first moment in recorded history when statespersons sat down to develop a functioning international order. This was the first time in human history that states consciously sat down to plan, design and develop a functioning international order.
