POLI 4075 Chapter : POLI4075
Document Summary
Natural borders mountains and water: borders less likely to change than flat land. Rome: maintain use of latin after fall, romance languages, laws based on roman law, england the exception, system of common law. Charlemagne 814 ad: after fall of re, unifies chunk of roman empire, spain arab rule, when he dies each son (3) got part of kingdom, western kingdom france, eastern hre, central- breaks apart. Superpower in 1500s spain: building empire in americas, southern italy, parts of netherlands, parts of austria. Reformation: religious warfare, england breaks away from church, germanic luther and calvin, 30 years war, ends w principle of sovereignty. 1815: kingdoms, hre weak, after french revolution, map changes dramatically, set of reactionary conservative kingdoms, german areas gradually swallowed up by prussia, defeat france in 1870, declare 2nd reich (second german. Kingdom: 1860 italy unified, kingdom of piedmont, incl. 1914: very simple, poland part of russian empire, dual monarchy austria hungary, serbs assassinate austrian leader, wwi.
