It was to pay down their war debts from fighting the French in the Seven Years' War.
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Because after the new German Empire annexed Alsace and Lorraine (following the Franco-Prussian War), he knew that the empire had created a permanent cause of anger in France. ... Bismarck knew that from then on France would be considered an enemy of Germany, for several generations at least.
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One reason why Japan has such a distinctive culture is because it was closed off from the world from 1623 to 1641. The Tokugawa Shogunate closed Japan because they were afraid of all the new ideas and cultures that came from trading. Because of this period of isolation, Japan created their own unique culture without being influenced by any western ideas.
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<span>The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States and the United Kingdom and their respective allies. Historians in Britain often see it as a minor theatre of the Napoleonic Wars; however, in the United States and Canada, it is seen as a war in its own right.</span>
