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Title: The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Bénézet, Louis Paul, 1878- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Chicago, New York, Scott, Foresman and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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^little counties, each ruled by its petty princeor duke, all owing homage, in a general way,to the ruler of Austria, who still was supposedto be the head of the Holy Roman Empire.This empire was not a real nation, but a col-lection of many different nationalities which hadlittle sympathy with each other. The ruler ofAustria was also king of Bohemia and ofHungary, but neither country was happy atbeing governed by a German ruler. Then, too,the Croatians, Serbs, Slovenes, and Slovakswere unhappy at being ruled, first by theHungarians and then by the emperor, as theywere Slavic peoples who wished their indepen-dence. It so happened that about the time thatFrederick became king of Prussia in place of his The Map of Europe 99
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100 The Story of father, the head of the House of Austria died,leaving his only child, a daughter, MariaTheresa, to rule the big empire. Frederickdecided that he could easily defeat the dis-organized armies of Austria, so he announcedto the world that the rich province of Silesiawas henceforth to be his and that he proposedto take it by force of arms. Naturally, thisbrought on a fierce war with Austria, but in theend, Fredericks well-trained troops, his storeof money, and above all, his expert militaryability made the Prussians victorious, and atthe close of the fighting, almost all of Silesiaremained a part of the kingdom of Prussia.The Austrians, however, were not satisfied,and two more wars were fought before theyfinally gave up trying to recover the stolenstate. Frederick remained stronger than everas a result of his victories. Questions for Review (a) Why were the fighting men of the Middle Ages a sourceof loss to a nation in general? (6) How was it that Spain became one nation?

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