Differences in ideology between ideas of empires and nations had also accounted for geo-political divides. ... As Erica Benner (2013) mentions in Nationalism: Intellectual Origins, a German reaction to the revolutions in America and France, which "claimed to found new national forms of legitimacy on universal, republican principles" (Benner 2013, p. 45), which was when the confederation of German states in 1800, or the Holy Roman Empire, were collapsing due to the pressure of the revolutionary wars. ... Renan mentions that resulting from the end of the Roman Empire and the subsequent failures ...

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The British were involved in the usual strategic planning aiming at securing their access to the Empire and, in the end, the arms race "contributed to the feeling that war was inevitable." ... The Austro-Hungarian Empire was losing its geopolitical integrity; Britain had to deal with the Ulster Irish question that was about to overspill; France had as issues taxation and the Three-Year service issue. ... Britain had an Empire to defend; Russia was pushing in the Middle East and was already present in Persia; Italy wanted to live up to its glorious past and Germany wanted to create its own sea ...

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Moreover Germany can trace its origins very far back into ancient times during the decline of the Roman Empire. The first documented reference to Germany was written around 100 AD, by Roman scholars when they referenced the northern territory east of Gaul, as Germania. ... Out of this came the first German empire, or, the first Reich, with a reigning king known as Kaiser Wilhelm I, and his powerful military chancellor Otto Von Bismarck. ... Comprised of Roman Law and elements of Germanic law that developed during the period of the 1st Reich, Germany's civil law system is quite innovati...

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Germany were a new power in Europe, in 1871 German leader Otto von Bismarck created a new empire. However, the emergence of the German empire had upset the balance of Central Europe maintained for centuries by the Holy Roman Empire. ... Britain already had an overseas empire but also France and the Dutch had colonies in dispersed parts of Asia and Africa. ... He wanted to imitate the British success and create an empire such as theirs. ...

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Bismarck's Domestic Policy 1871-1890. Along with getting an IB Paper 3 question about Biz's foreign policy, you might also (instead?) encounter a question about the domestic policy that Biz pursued as Chancellor of the German Empire from 1871-1890. So let's deal with that now. OK? It is likely...

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A skilled diplomat or an oppurtunitist, which term best described Bismarck's style of leadership between 1871-1890? Bismarck, who was mainly known as the Iron Chancellor", was both, a skilled diplomat and an oppurtunitist in his chancellor years 1871-1890. "Bismarck was a Machiavellian and immora...

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