Write briefly about the political condition in Europe in the 1870s.

The political conditions of Europe in the 18th century are mentioned below:

● The nationalism did not had its idealistic liberal democratic sentiment in the first half of the 18th century.

● Nationalist groups had became had narrow creeds with limited ends.

● They were no longer trusting or tolerant of each other.

● The most serious source of nationalist tension in 1871 was in Balkans.

● It was a region of geographical and ethnic variations.

● One by one it’s European nationalities broke away from its control and declare independence.

● It became an area of intense conflicts.

● The Balkans states formed a high degree of rivalry among them.

● But the idea that societies should be organized into nation’s states was accepted as natural and universal.