<span>Industrialization led to goods being produced at a faster rate, which meant a country that had fully industrialized during ww1 could build a bigger army.</span>
Their government was mostly consisting of corrupt bureaucrats and ineffective economic policies that mostly helped the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor. In between them was a king who tried to implement some more liberal policies for the people, but Alexander III mostly reversed them all because he didn't want his autocracy to be challenged.<span />
Both Copernicus and Galileo supported the theory of a heliocentric solar system. That means they thought the sun was the center of the solar sytem and all planets revolved around it, while everyone else beleived the Earth was the center of the solar system (geocentric solar system). Both were punished for their views.
