Penn limited his own power and established an elected assembly. He promised religious freedom to all Christians.
This region was also politically unstable as there were different ethnicities and there was also rising nationalism in the region. Nationalism brought about tensions. There was also rising Serbian nationalist groups. Combined with the brinkmanship of the European Powers the area became a fuse to the powder keg that Europe had become. The Balkans has strong Cultural, Religious, and language ties to the surrounding Empires but they were in small pockets making nation building difficult.
Last one because everyone started building navies, so everyone else started building navies in order to defend against other navies.
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it is based solely on the experience of the colonial era