Part one of term paper
was one of four leaders, (along with Charles V, Napoleon, and Adolf Hitler) who had an opportunity to establish their hegemony over much of Europe in the time period after 1500. Although failed in his attempt to dominate Europe politically, it was during this time span that Europe was very strongly influenced by French culture and civilizat ...

Part two of term paper
... policies led eventually to the outbreak of the French Revolution. He repeatedly tried to move France's eastern boundary to the Rhine river. Two hundred and fifty years after , a leader would emerge in Germany who would claim all that he was trying to do was to reverse the outcome of the wars fought between 's France and the Germans. Louis' father was Louis XIII and his mother was Anne of Austria. There is some dispute as to who actually fathered because his father was mentally unstable and di ...