HIST 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Landtag, Erfurt Union, Germany
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Most significant evet in 19th century (after napoleon wars) In 1815, austria was the dominant player in the german lands, but since the 1700s, prussia gradually became more powerful to challenge austria for leadership in german lands. Balance of power has been shifting in prussia"s favor. Intellectually, german nationalist began to rise ( influenced by french revolution). Advancement in technology allowed for communication between germans. Independent states each with its own sovereign who did not want to lose independence. Alliance between prussia, saxony, hanover, with goals of creating a unified german state. (austria was not invited). Austria threatened prussia with military. (dissolve the union or war) Prussia did(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t a (cid:449)ar a(cid:374)d (cid:271)a(cid:272)ked do(cid:449)(cid:374). Humiliating for prussian nationalist and vowed to get revenge. Landtag--legislative assembly prussian king made in response to the uprising in 1848 that gave the people a representitive. King thought that the assemble would support the status quo because the people of the assembly were upperclass.
