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How did Otto the Great make the crown stronger than the German nobles?
Magyars invaded the empire in 954, and this invasion forced the nobility to reunite with Otto in order to defend themselves. :D
How did the British weaken the Chinese empire?
They addicted the Chinese to opium, so the British can make a lot of money by selling opium to the Chinese
What does mercenalism mean?
BRITISH policy:colonies should make England rich
How did British industrial technology make its way to the United States?
Francis Lowell was a very wealthy British man who went to Britain and looked at many companies like that to make his own in America, called the Boston Manufacturing Company.
How did having a weak monarch lead to the French Revolution?
When you're a King of a country that has an enormous state debt (>400 million Francs), when your people live in poverty and the nobility in luxury, you need to be able to make bigdecisions to try to make things better. This is something Louis XVI couldn't do: make decisions. Something had to be done fast to make sure that money came in to lower the state debt (France was as good as bankrupt, and was later also declared as such) and to make sure the poor people got a better way of living. Louis got a lot of different advice from a lot of different political and social figures, but he never had an opinion of his own and couldn't make up his mind to do what he thought was right. One day he decided to take the advice of one of his finance ministers and proposed to lower the taxes for the poor and to make to nobility and the members of the church pay taxes (they never had to pay taxes in their lives before). He changed his mind very fast when the nobility strongly objected against this proposal. He did not have the guts to push through and be a strong and firm king. By this way of "reigning" he not only made enemies among the poor people (the lower class) who thought the King just didn't care about them at all because he didn't do anything to help them out, but also among the nobility and members of the church who were angry that the King had dared to propose that they would pay taxes (eventhough they were the richest!).
