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But the one empire that existed then that doesn't
exist in its current form, was Prussia.
Doesn't even exist at all.
There is no Prussian Empire, or Prussian nation, or the
country of Prussia anymore.
You can see there it had some overlap with Germany, some
overlap with Poland, some other countries, won't go into
detail there.
Then you have the Austrian Empire.
Austrian Empire is right over there.
As you can see, it encompasses much more than just the modern
nation or country of Austria.
Then you have the Russian Empire, which, give or take,
looks not too different than Russia today.
But the big difference between the world-- there's many
differences-- between the world now and the world then
was that there was no nation of Germany.
You had a bunch of people speaking German, but they were
divided into a bunch of small little states.
This map doesn't show it.
Some of them were under Austrian control, some of them
were under Prussian control.
And this loose confederation of German kingdoms and states,
this was called the Holy Roman Empire.
Let me write that down.
Holy Roman Empire
And as Voltaire famously said, they were neither holy, nor
Roman-- they didn't speak Latin, they weren't Italian,
they were German.
It wasn't holy, this wasn't controlled
by a religious figure.
And it wasn't an empire, it wasn't a tightly-controlled
state that was kind of expanding its boundaries.
It was just a loose confederation of kingdoms.
So that gives you a visualization of what the
world looked like right then.
So with that in mind, let me go back to my overview.
Right there.
And then the Second Coalition, in 1801 you had
the Treaty of Luneville.
Once again, this was a defeat of the Austrians, mainly due
to the military capabilities.