It was apparently greeted with much jubilation because unlike the other treaties, it was an "open treaty" which meant that it was not directed against any particular state but rather an unknown aggressor within a defined area. ... Jordan goes on to claim that the British did not want to get involved in any guarantees that involve them in parts of Europe that they were not interested in (particularly the east). ... The British on the other hand did not have to fear invasion because of the Channel but rather entanglement in a war of European origin. ...

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The Renaissance/Early Modern Period is distinguished from other periods in European history almost entirely in intellectual or cultural terms. ... European historians overwhelmingly tend to place Europe's major break with its medieval and classical past with the discovery of America and the Reformation. ... Beginning in Italy in 1400, it spread throughout Western Europe lasting until 1600. It was during this time that Europe was busy pulling herself out of the economic stagnation of the Middle Ages. With this new financial growth came political, scientific and social energy unlike ...

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New ideas, like interplay between the various instruments in an orchestra, became prevalent, unlike the monophonic music of previous years. ... Instead new composers chose to compose a new form of music that was happy and jubilant to mirror the times of great exploration and hope for European society. ...

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Moreover, the general political atmosphere in Europe did not allow new concessions to Italian balance when the powers were concerned with maintaining the balance of power and to prevent the setting of French hegemony in Europe again. So a united Italy in 1815 would only mean French domination of Italy, so the powers generally accepted the settlement even though the 1815 settlement ignored the moral principles which first French Revolution and the Romanticism had unleashed in Europe. ... As Cavour once said, "We must be the partner of France in the great game that sooner or later must be played...

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