History 1401E Lecture : 4. War and Peace in the 18th Century.doc
22 Mar 2012
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To prevent one state from becoming to strong (powerful dynastic and commercial rivalry) Emergence of global economy and rivalries occur especially between britain and france. Use slaves (mostly men) transported 3 million slaves; only 10% of slaves went to north. Robert jenkins claims spanish official cut off his ear as disrespect to england. Robert jenkins claims to british officials about spanish atrocities to britain citizens. Turns into who will inherit the austrian empire (1740-1748) 1793- pragmatic sanction when charles dies the land must stay together and his daughter is able to take the thrown. Fredrik the great attempted to overthrow maria theresa (daughter of charles) She gets support from hungary to save empire. Austria befriends france and is joined by russia. Fredrik attacks again invades saxony he does pretty well at first. But sweden and some other countries join the austrians. Fredrik believes he is going to lose but one of his enemies tsarina elizabeth of russia.
