From the perspective of thousands of years of ancient history, the rise of the state may have many similarities, such as wise monarchs, powerful military, united hearts and minds, and so on. But the reasons for decay vary. The second largest empire in Europe, once too strong, also invaded China, and finally exhausted its national strength, was dismembered into 8 pieces by its neighbors, and disappeared on the earth.
This country is the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was once the most prosperous in Europe. The birth of this country, like many great powers in Europe, is a political marriage. For example, in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which ran amok in Europe and beat Tsarist Russia to the head, was because the Polish royal family was extinct, so its princess married the Lithuanian king, so the two countries were merged. The same was true of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, an empire that was amalgamation of austria and Hungary.
At that time, the empire had a huge territory, and the continuous conquest also occupied many territories in neighboring countries. Thus, at that time his territory was only second in Europe than that of the Tsarist Empire. And there is an old Chinese saying that "although a country is big, it will be dangerous if it is belligerent." And this Austro-Hungarian Empire, with its great strength, is also very warlike. Not only did it seize colonies around the world, but it also actively intervened in China and invaded the Qing Dynasty, which was then slaughtered by others, in order to get a piece of the pie.
In 1900, when the Eight-Power Alliance invaded China, the Austro-Hungarian Empire also participated, not only sending troops, but also being the vanguard, and after entering Beijing, it did not do anything bad. After the war, he also received a huge amount of reparations from the Qing Dynasty, which can be described as a great victory. However, war is, after all, to be consumed, and this also makes domestic contradictions stand out. The Austro-Hungarian Empire took the lead in World War I, and the famous Sarajevo Incident occurred in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Moreover, austria-Hungary joined the Allies against the Allies and became the trigger for the First World War. The fierceness and huge consumption of the First World War completely angered the national contradictions in the country, and it was an allied country in itself, and the defeat in the First World War completely consumed the national strength. The various nationalities in the country engaged in independence, and the powerful empire collapsed in an instant.
In 1919, several neighboring countries signed the Treaty of Saint Germain, which dismembered the Austro-Hungarian Empire and divided it into 8 pieces. Part of it belonged to Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, and later became the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Italy and Romania were also divided into two pieces, and the last piece was given to Yugoslavia. Just such a big empire ended, or responded to the sentence, "Although the country is big, war will be dangerous"!