Internecine Wars

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Five countries went into a room, only one came out victorious. Supposedly, impartial Britain suggested that the only way peace could be achieved was“ by balancing the relative strengths of the various attending nations and making major territorial adjustments( Encyclopedia), but Britain was wrong and in no means impartial. The only way peace would be found in Europe was if the leaders could “preserve it from two of its chronic problems: hegemonic adventures (so there would never again be a Napoleonic empire) and internecine wars (so there would be no reasons to fight each other)”(Ghervas). If one was to take this stimulation seriously, one would notice that peace could never be fully achieved. Especially if you have one country repeatedly calling …show more content…
An impending war could be predicted by the best prophets in Greece. As a judge, it was my duty to rank the the countries from best to worst ( how well they represented their country), but it was also my duty to protect the interests of Europe. Thus, I judged the countries off of their paper, presentations, and how they dealt with Poland. Before giving my decision I leave you with these words, sine qua non, “if you want peace, prepare for war”. (Ghervas) Every paper was unique, to their understanding of this project. Because of that, I ranked the countries based off the strength of their paper’s, and their persuasiveness. After reading all five papers, I ranked them as such: Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, France. Britain won the this round because they found their argument and supported it without any fluff. What I mean by this is, some papers lost the purpose of their argument by writing paragraphs that only had biographical information which didn’t relate to their point. Britain throughout the paper proved that they should be the leader of the …show more content…
Based on papers, presentations, visual aids, and Poland I was able to find the winner. For each category every country was ranked one through five, one being the best, and five being the worst. From there each team received points, first place was five points, second place was four points , third place was three points, etc. After counting the points I was able to determine Austria as the winner. Overall Austria was dominate in most of the places and secured either first or second place in each category. Was peace achieved, no, but after the Congress of Vienna some stability was provided to the people of

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