HIST 1088 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Second Opium War, Taiping Rebellion, Apsis
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Gure out what is happening, why do we have have a con uence of events, how do they play into each other. 1848-1852 france - monarchy to 2nd republic to 2nd empire. France has a revolution in 1830 that kicks out the reactionary monarch installs louis philipe another failed revolution against him in 1848 (know this year well) there are revolutions that sweep across europe. Germany is the land of people who speak german, land of former holy roman empire, religious sect it can include austria, vienna is a deeply german city. Russian dynasty, the romanov"s believe they have saved the habsburg"s in their hour of need they feel betrayed and never forgive them sense of betrayal leads in a direct path to the rst world war. Treaty of nanking - 1842 at the same time, europeans are engaged in imperial expansion those doing this are the ones least e ected by revolution.
