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The rise and fall of superpowers taught by world history where the weak eat the strong

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・In Western Europe until early modern times, all official documents and church records were written in Latin. This is due to the unparalleled glory of the Roman Empire and whether it is the Christian border between the same empire (p28)

・After the revival of the 11th century, in 1204, which was in turmoil due to civil war, the 4th Crusade occupied the imperial capital Constantinople, and the Visantine Empire temporarily fell. However, it was revived in 1261, but while maintaining its pride as a superpower, it was just a local government with hair growing into a city-state (p33)

・The Umayyad dynasty, which had Damascus as its capital, grew into a large empire that was unimaginable in the image of Mohammed, and this was not achieved solely by force. There was also a large part owed to the accusation and cooperation of minorities exposed to persecution in various places (p40)

・This is because just as the Sogdians cooperated with the Turkish Turks, tremendous profits were promised if a huge unified commercial area without customs was created, with Muslim merchants on the side of Mongolia (p45)

・What was most strongly engraved in history during the expedition of Suleiman I of the Ottoman Empire was the first siege of Vienna carried out in 1529, and unfortunately the advance was greatly delayed due to the cold wave and long rain, leaving most of the artillery behind along the way, so Vienna escaped the biggest crisis, but the impact this incident had on the Western Catholic world was compared to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, that is, the fall of the Vicants Empire No, regardless of status, everyone renewed their reverence for the Ottoman Empire (p55)

・Countries called the Great Powers were planning to transform into so-called fiscal and military states, starting with the United Kingdom. A fiscal and military nation is a national system that skillfully combines politics, finance, and military to expedite the flow from issuing funds and orders to execution, and England achieved this ahead of other countries, so England overtook Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands, which were ahead in overseas expansion and separated them greatly, and also continued the Second Hundred Years' War (1688-1815) with France (p71)

・As the main force of the Ottoman Empire's military took over from local knights to standing armies, the Timar system (feudal system that functioned until the 16th century) became nothing but a disadvantage for the nation, and dispatch disputes over the Indian Ocean chose to retreat because it cost too much money to maintain the fleet and expeditions, and as a result, the main route of east-west trade changed to one that bypassed the southern tip of Africa pioneered by Portugal (p73)

・In World War I, the Sultan (ruler of the Ottoman Empire) exchanged the Treaty of Sèvres with the Allied Powers that advanced to Istanbul and agreed on territorial division. Those who could not accept this set up their own government in Ankara in central Anatolia and challenged the Imperial Government and the Allied Powers whose main force was the Greek army. The Ankara government, which succeeded in completely destroying the allied forces from Anatolia, abolished the sultanate system, and Istanbul came under the control of the Ankara government, and the Allies also approved it, and 1 year and 4 months later, the abolition of the caliphate system was also resolved on 1924/ 3/3, and the history of the Ottoman Empire completely came to an end here (p91)

・It was the Habsburg Empire (16th century to 1918) that had Austria and Spain as two major bases earlier than England and colonized most of Latin America and the Philippines in Southeast Asia, and traces of prosperity can still be seen today in places such as Vienna in Austria, Budapest in Hungary, Prague in the Czech Republic, and Madrid in Spain (p94)

・King Philip II assumed the Portuguese throne in 1580, using the cause that his mother and first wife were from the Portuguese royal family, and called him Philip I as King of Portugal (p108)

・The reason why Spain was able to maintain its status as a superpower while being hit by many negative chains was due to Spain having control of most of the silver calculated in the world in the 16th century, the amount of silver produced dramatically increased due to the discovery of Mexico's Zacatecas and the Potosi silver mine in South America, and the introduction of a new technology called the mercury amalgam method. Furthermore, silver produced in Japan (Ikuno/Iwami) also remained almost monopolized, and after this silver was once collected in the Philippines sent home (p114)

・Spain got used to seizing large colonies and neglected efforts to create new industries, and that was the reason that clearly divided the light and dark between Spain and the later British Empire (P115)

・ The Thirty Years' War was concluded in 1648, and after admitting a complete national exam for the German lords, they were forced to buy the homogenization of Catholics and Protestants, etc., and the details showed the limits of the power of the Habsburg family widely both internally and externally (P121)

・Austria was reorganized into a dual monarchy with Hungary having its own parliament and cabinet while sharing the same monarch, foreign minister, land minister, and finance minister (P135)

・In the British Empire, under the Stewart dynasty and the Hanover dynasty after the death of Elizabeth I, triangular trade connecting West Africa, North America and Caribbean colonies, and the home country of England was going well. The slave trade, where black slaves obtained in West Africa were exported to North America and the Caribbean brought enormous profits, and triangular trade in Asia also got on track in the 18th century, and opium played the same role as slaves here (P193)

・The biggest reason England was able to win against France was that they built a “tax collection system” that could endure long wars and successive wars faster than anywhere else in the world. It is a system where the completion of the nation is responsible for tax collection without relying on coordination contractors, and if this is the case, it was possible to efficiently collect expenses necessary for the war (P191)

・There were no such exports to England before the Industrial Revolution, so they proceeded in parallel with these three things: 1) colonizing production areas for luxury goods, 2) concluding trade treaties favorable to England, and 3) aiming to domesticate products that relied on imports. What occurred from the third trend of domestication was the industrial revolution, and the one with the highest demand among luxury goods was India's calico. The industrial revolution that began with the cotton textile industry moved its main axis from the 1830s to heavy industry using iron and coal, and railway construction supported it, and after 1850, when construction of major arterial lines was completed domestically, it became a position to export railways with advanced technology all over the world, and England became the “world factory.” It was decided to reign supreme as (P199)

・England was unable to stick to “honorable isolation,” and went through a major shift in foreign policy, built an Anglo-American coordination system by signing the “Hay-Bonsfort Treaty” with America in 1901 and handing over dispatch of the Caribbean region to America, concluded an alliance west to counter Russia's expansion of power in 1902, and concluded Anglo-French negotiations in 1904, France in Morocco, and England's priority position in Egypt A settlement was established by mutual recognition (P211)

・The “Tatar yoke,” which continued for 240 years, was resolved in 1480 due to the rise of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, yet it was adjacent to the west in terms of population and national power, fell short of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and was surrounded by Sweden in the east, the Astrakhan Khanate to the southeast, and the Crimean Khanate to the south (P225)

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