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The Five Great Powers of Europe

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Austria-Hungary
France
Great Britain
Prussia
Russia

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“The new European international system [that emerged from the settlement of the Seven Years’ War] with its familiar five Great Powers survived well into the twentieth century, and some of the lessons learned in these wars survived along with it.”

—Franz A.J. Szabo, “The War of the Austrian Succession,” in Frank W. Thackeray and John E. Findling, ed., Events that Changed the World in the Eighteenth Century, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998), p. 73.

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