HISA04H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Wage War, Maximilien Robespierre, Saint-Domingue

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The habsburgs and the quest for universal empire in europe. Habsburgs dynasts were heirs to the eastern half of charlemagne"s empire. The holy roman empire continued to obey an emperor elected by elite lower level sovereigns. After 1273 the emperor usually came from the austrian house of habsburg. Holy roman empire included territory in the netherlands, germany, austria, belgium, croatia and parts of italy, poland, and switzerland. (it did not have centralized power) In 1519 the habsburgs prince charles v was elected holy roman emperor (was grandson of spanish monarchs isabella and ferdinand & of holy roman emperor maximilian i) so he ended up inheriting. Spain and its territories in the americas as well as the habsburgs traditional european territories. Charles struggled to prevent come european princes from embracing the protestant faith and he abdicated in 1556 and divided the realm with his younger brother ferdinand and his son philip. Ferdinand: got austral, german and central europeans territories.

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