HIS241H1 Lecture Notes - Absolute Monarchy, Monarchy Of The United Kingdom, Lower House
Document Summary
Congress of vienna (review his103 notes)9/20/2012 9:12:00 am. Great powers wanted to develop a system that would prevent the rise of another french hegemon: another arbiter of europe, no one man could ever again have the power to destroy & create states become hegemon. Make sure that no hegemony would ever emerge in. France was seen as the primary great power to create a hegemony. Make sure france did not create another hegemony threaten the continent. British only cared about world trade wanted to prevent any threat to it. Wanted to expand all over the world. Proposed a quadruple alliance binding all other great powers in one union to make sure france would never again threaten the rest of the alliance. Signed in 1815 bound austria, russia, prussia, and. Britain to an alliance, to contribute 150,000 troops each, and to remain in that alliance for at least 20 years. Brits were happy and left europe alone afterwards: metternich, austrian chancellor.
