Examples of Great Northern War in the following topics:
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- The Russo–Turkish War of 1686–1700 followed as part of the joint
European effort to confront the Ottoman Empire (the larger European conflict
was known as the Great Turkish War).
- The Russo-Ottoman War of 1710–11,
also known as the Pruth River Campaign, erupted as a consequence of the defeat
of Sweden by the Russian Empire in the Battle of Poltava (1709)
during the ongoing Great Northern War.
- In the Russo-Persian War
(1722-1723), Russia had managed to conquer swaths of Safavid Irans territories
in the North Caucasus, Transcaucasia, and northern mainland Iran, while
the Ottoman Turks had invaded and conquered all Iranian territories in the west.
- Soon Augustus unsuccessfully wanted
to terminate his participation in the Great Northern War and free himself from
his dependence on Peter.
- Nystad manifested the decisive shift in the European balance of power which the Great Northern War had brought about: the Swedish imperial era ended and Sweden entered the Age of Liberty, while Russia emerged as a new empire.
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- Over the course of the war
in colonies, Great Britain gained enormous areas of land and influence.
- In India, the British retained the Northern Circars, but returned all the French trading ports.
- Prussia emerged from the war as a great power whose importance could no longer be challenged.
- Russia, on the other hand, made one great invisible gain from the war: the elimination of French influence in Poland.
- Swedish historiography uses the Pomeranian War, as Swedish involvement was limited to Pomerania in northern central Germany.
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- Initially a war between various Protestant and Catholic states in the fragmented Holy Roman Empire, it gradually developed into a more general conflict involving most of the great powers.
- The northern Protestant states, angered by the violation of their rights to choose granted in the Peace of Augsburg, banded together to form the Protestant Union.
- Sweden, a major military power in the day, intervened in 1630 under the great general Gustavus Adolphus and started the full-scale great war on the continent.
- The rise of Bourbon France, the curtailing of Habsburg ambition, and the ascendancy of Sweden as a great power created a new balance of power on the continent, with France emerging from the war strengthened and increasingly dominant in the latter part of the 17th century.
- However, under the leadership of the exiled William the Silent, the northern provinces continued their resistance.
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- The balance of victories and losses shifted regularly over the course of the war, with both sides exhausted militarily and financially, also as a result of a series of earlier wars waged in Europe.
- France and Great Britain had come to terms in October 1711, when the preliminaries of peace had been signed in London.
- In North America, where the War of the Spanish Succession turned into a war over colonial gains, Louis XIV ceded to Britain the territories of Saint Kitts and Acadia and recognized Britain's sovereignty over Rupert's Land and Newfoundland.
- In return, Louis XIV kept the major city of Lille on his northern border, but he ceded Furnes, Ypres, Menin, and Tournai to the Spanish Netherlands.
- Utrecht marked the rise of Great Britain under Anne and later the House of Hanover and the end of the hegemonic ambitions of France.
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- To the east and south was the Jin Dynasty of northern China.
- Genghis's relentless battle tactics showed to great effect in the Xia territory.
- The tactics and military might Genghis used in the Western Xia region continued as he went on to conquer the larger and more powerful Jin Dynasty in 1211 CE, beginning a 23-year war known as the Mongol-Jin War.
- These leaders even encouraged disputes between these nomadic tribes in order to bolster their own power along their northern border.
- This forced the Emperor Xuanzong to move his capital south, abandoning the northern half of his kingdom to the Mongols.
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- Louis XIV's successor and great-grandson, Louis XV, thus inherited a country with a reputation of a military, political, colonial, and cultural power.
- By 1748, France occupied the entire Austrian Netherlands (modern-day Belgium) as well as some parts of the northern Netherlands, then the wealthiest area of Europe.
- A few months later, Great Britain and Prussia, enemies in the War of the Austrian Succession, signed a 1756 treaty of "neutrality."
- Frederick the Great had abandoned his French ally during the War of Austrian Succession by signing a separate peace treaty with Austria in 1745.
- In 1756, Frederick the Great invaded Saxony without a declaration of war, initiating the Seven Years' War, and Britain declared war on France.
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- The first Roman Republican wars were wars of both expansion and defense, aimed at protecting Rome from neighboring cities and nations as well as establishing its territory in the region.
- The First Samnite War of 343 BCE–341 BCE was a relatively short affair.
- The war saw land battles in Sicily early on, but focus soon shifted to naval battles around Sicily and Africa.Before the First Punic War there was no Roman navy to speak of.
- The new war in Sicily against Carthage, a great naval power, forced Rome to quickly build a fleet and train sailors.
- Rome's preoccupation with its war in Carthage provided an opportunity for Philip V of the kingdom of Macedonia, located in the northern part of the Greek peninsula, to attempt to extend his power westward.
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- As a result of the war, France had ceded most of the territories of New France, except the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, to Great Britain and Spain at the Treaty of Paris of 1763.
- The invasion army under John Burgoyne waited in vain for reinforcements from New York and became trapped in northern New York state.
- The American theater became only one front in Britain's war.
- The northern war subsequently became a stalemate, as the focus of attention shifted to the smaller southern theater.
- The northern, southern, and naval theaters of the war converged in 1781 at Yorktown, Virginia.
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- The Persians and the Greeks had been warring for hundreds of years before Alexander the Great moved to conquer Persia.
- The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia and city-states of the Hellenic world that started in 499 BCE and lasted until 449 BCE.
- Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon) was a king of the Greek kingdom of Macedon.
- After reconfirming Macedonian rule by quelling a rebellion of southern Greek city-states and staging a short but bloody excursion against Macedon's northern neighbors, Alexander set out east against the Achaemenid Empire in 336 BCE.
- Mosaic representing the battle of Alexander the Great against Darius (III) the Great, possibly at Battle of Issus or Battle of Gaugamela, perhaps after an earlier Greek painting of Philoxenus of Eretria.
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- These shifts in power in the Northern provinces
created the first semblance of a “Russian” state (though that name would not be utilized for another century).
- Moscow refused to pay its normal Golden Horde taxes starting in
that year, which spurred Khan Ahmed to wage war against the city in
1480.
- Moscow’s primary rival, Novgorod, became Ivan the Great’s
first order of business.
- Ivan the Great also greatly shaped the
future of the Rus’ lands.
- Outline the key points that led to a consolidated northern region under Ivan III and Vasili III in Moscow