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Allies of seven years war

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Austria, France, Russia

Prussia, Britain

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Allies of war of Austrian succession

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Austria, Britain, Dutch

Prussia, France

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Battle of plassey

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Britain, Robert Clive, sepoys vs India, suraja doula

At Bengal in India

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Cause of war of Austrian succession

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Frederick the great ignores pragmatic sanction and invades Silesia (Habsburg territory under Maria Theresa)

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The two treaties that made up the peace of settlement

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Treaty of hubertusberg

Treaty of Paris

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Jacobites

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The partisans of James III or as others called him, the pretender

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Legendary merchants of England and France

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England - Thomas Pitt

France - jean joseph laborde

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What treaty ended the war of Austrian succession

No territorial change

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Aix la chapelle

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What ended the 7 years war

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Peace of settlement comprising of the treaty of hubertusburg and treaty of paris

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Decisive British victory that greatly compromised France’s defenses

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Quebec

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Magyars

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Hungarian political elites

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Louisburg

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French fortress on Cape Breton Island that was captured by an expedition of new englanders
England restored it to back to France in the treaty of aix la chapelle
In canada

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Santo Domingo

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French sugar cane island

Biggest sugar producer

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Count kaunitz

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Concluded that the rise of Prussia had revolutionized the balance of power
Austrian foreign minister
Most artful diplomat of the century
Proposed the alliance of habsburgs and France (Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI)

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Black hole of calcutta

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Local muslim ruler, with french backing, locked 146 englishmen in a tiny cell, where most suffocated

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Who was the treaty of hubertusburg between?

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Austria and prussia

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Who was the treaty of paris between?

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France and england

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Who kept silesia in the end of all this war crap?

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Prussia

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King of England

Elector of Hanover

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George I

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England’s first prime minister

Part of Whig party

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Robert Walpole

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Rivalries

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Prussia - Austria
Power in Central Europe

Britain - France
Trade in North America, West Indies, and India

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Prussia was saved from defeat when, blank, who admired Frederick the great, dropped out of the war

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Russia’s new tsar, peter III

22
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British acquired French Canada and land in east half of America
France retained Caribbean sugar islands
Prussia retained Silesia

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Treaty of Paris

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Ostend company

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The belgiums founded this overseas trading company in 1723 under the authority of their new austrian ruler

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Jan Vermeer

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Famous dutch painter who painted the artists studio

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Count Kaunitz

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Concluded that the rise of prussia revolutionized the balance of power