
12: Habsburg Curiosity
The Making of Modern Ukraine
The History of the Habsburgs
The Habsburgs ruled domains which break out into the world more powerfully than any other single family, but then it's all broken. In 1700, the Spanish branch of the Habsbergs dies out and the HabsburgS at that point are basically reduced to being a European power. So 1699, 1700, you can remember as a kind of turning point when the Habssburgs are ceasing to be a world power,. But at exactly the same moment becoming a southeastern, east-central or east-European power.
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