Triple Alliance, secret agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed in May 1882 and renewed periodically until World War I. Germany and Austria-Hungary had been closely allied since 1879. Italy sought their support against France shortly after losing North African ambitions to the French
<span>France wanted to break the power of the Catholic Hapsburgs monarchs, who ruled in Spain, Austria, and the Holy Roman Empire. So, the helped the Protestants... :)</span>
Citizenship of a country or sovereign state is defined as legal membership of the said country; this status varies from country to country and can be obtained through birth, marriage as well as naturalization. Citizenship can usually be obtained by parentage, the location of birth and application for citizenship. Once a citizen of a country you then are legally bound to its laws and subject to punishment if you break them; also citizenship in a broader sense is acceptance of cultural norms within a certain country.
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What contributed most to the increasing use of African slave labor in
North America during the 1600s and 1700s was the constant demand of more hands, more labor workers to work in the large plantations of the North American colonies.
At the beginning of the colonial settlings, most colonies used indentured servitude. But the need for more hands made plantation owners import African slaves to grow crops such as cotton, tobacco, and rice. Southern plantations depended too much on slaves because landlords had to export crops to Europe.
