There were so many different ethic groups with nothing in common clumped together with two huge empires trying to control them.
Because it involved all continents in some way and was fought in North America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. All of the major powers fought, and it holds the record for the war with the highest amount of casualities (30-60 million). It also introduced new ideas like Blitzkrieg and ended the era of the Battleship. Also, all of the remaining European Empires, and the Japanese Empire, crumbled after the war.
encouragement
NZ was colonized by the British and a country in the British Empire. When Great Britain went to war with Germany, so did NZ, Australia, Canada, and other countries which were then part of the British Empire. WW1 was not merely a clash of countries. It was a clash of empires, even more so than WW2, and it is difficult to equate in a modern context now that Imperialism is in the past. The question "Why should NZ get involved?" was probably not asked in NZ at the time, at least not aloud.
There were five great empires that went into WWI, and only one came out. The Russian, Ottoman Turk, German and Austro-Hungarian Empires all collapsed as a result of the war. Where before there had been the Austro-Hungarian (or Hapsburg) Empire, which had lasted hundreds of years and was the oldest of all the empires, after the war there were many new countries, including Austria, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia. Only the British Empire survived, of the five empires who fought in the war.
What empires wanted to take control of north America
More land equals more power.
The spanish conquered the Inca and Aztec empires in America.
Empires of Industry - 1997 Brewed in America was released on: USA: 1997
The countries with empires.
The Mongol empires control land in Asia and Europe 5 years. This happened in history.
World War I - because it brought in the whole of the British and German Empires, and involved conflicts in Africa, South America etc.
The Incas, Mayans and Aztecs were 3 Indian empires that existed in South America.
Chinese...
Both Spanish and English policies toward Native American people involved colonization and forced assimilation, but there were some key differences. Spanish colonization often involved intermarriage with indigenous people and a more hierarchical societal structure, while English colonization tended to lead to more displacement and conflict with native groups over land and resources. Overall, both empires sought to control and exploit indigenous populations for their own benefit.
The Inca Empire for one.
There have been hunsdreds of empires in the course of history and several empire builders who used tolerance to maintain control over their empires