During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, states in northern Europe organized themselves in order to dominate European politics and become great powers.
2.) These nations believed different ways of government such as a parliamentary monarchy in England, or political absolutism, in France.
3.) These changes in politics created major powers by the mid-eighteenth century, these powers being: Great Britain, France, Austria, Prussia, and Russia.
A.) Frederick William, the “Great Elector”
1.) He established…
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