The Expansion of Europe; a History of the Foundations of the Modern World
The Expansion of Europe; a History of the Foundations of the Modern World
Abbott, Wilbur Cortez, 1869-1947
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His son's marriage to the Infanta of Portugal brought him in touch with that nation's future. His aunt's divorce by Henry VIII bound up his fortunes with the English change of faith. Half of Italy became an appanage of his house, and he took part in all the complicated politics of that long-vexed peninsula. Against his wide-encroaching power, Francis I of France entered a life-long struggle and waged four great wars. To these he summoned the aid of the reviv- ing Turkish energies, which, having... overpowered Egypt and begun to absorb the long line of Europe's old Mediterranean outposts, the Venetian factories, again pressed hard on Christendom. In consequence, Charles twice invaded Africa and twice fought the Turks, as Spain and the Empire became Digitized by VjOOQIC EUROPEAN POLITICS 143 the bulwark against the Ottoman. And while his subjects conquered the New World and sailed around the earth, re- ligion and politics, European and colonial affairs were, in his day, and partly at his hands, inextricably joined.
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