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| - The background of the war goes back to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1632 following the First Global War. The Prussians shared dominance over Germany mainly with Bavaria and Saxony. But Prussia was beginning to gain a more dominant military presence, which in the new German Confederation, meant power. Austria had been unable to gain access to the Confederation, and had become increasingly antagonistic to the organization itself. Prussia also was a member of the Byzantium Pact, which Bavaria was strongly against, and began gravitating toward the Austrian sphere of influence. Another area of conflict was between Austria and Prussia's conflict over Silesia, although treaty gave Prussia the right to the land, Austria refused to give it to them. But Poland-Lithuania also laid claim to the land, but the commonwealth itself had begun to fall apart. The increasingly Eastern Orthodox Russian Empire was now a member of the Byzantium Pact, and Poland-Lithuania was allied to Austria, and pressure from Russia to partition Poland-Lithuania became increasingly rough. There was also conflict between Poland-Lithuania and Prussia, as Prussia also wanted Pomerania for its access to the North Sea. While countries like Sweden and Russia were willing to recognize these claims, Poland-Lithuania still resisted. When King Louis XV ascended to the throne of France in 1715, he was only 5 years old, but as he became much more Catholic, he began to question France's role in the Byzantium Pact. He believed that France should have its own sphere of influence or that it should join the new Alliance of Vienna, an alliance of states centered around Austria and Spain. France officially left the Byzantium Pact in 1734, and joined the Alliance of Vienna. This angered the Byzantine Empire, as no country had ever left the alliance, they were unsure how to react. But the Byzantine Empire decided that they should work toward better relations with the United Kingdom, which already had colonies in North America, Africa, and India. The two countries worked together to establish an effective alliance to cooperate in case of war in North America and India against France. Tensions also began to increase Denmark-Norway and Sweden, as the two vied for control over the Scandinavian peninsula and the North Sea, Denmark-Norway left the Byzantium Pact in 1738. And now the two began to were fighting politically over the ownership of parts of Norway. But neither side gained enough political support to stake a legitimate claim over the other. Meanwhile, Persia had been rebuilding its empire ever since its loss to the Byzantine Empire in the Iberia War, and had had trouble building an effective military and economic system under the pressure of the Byzantine Empire on one border and China on the other. But now they had raised an army of 125,000 soldiers, and were prepared to fight a war with the Byzantine Empire, especially if it meant regaining the Iberia and Mesopotamia. And the Byzantine Empire failed at every try to get the Persians to size-down their military. But the Byzantines did have an answer to the threat. Throughout the late 17th and 18th centuries, the members of the Byzantium Pact had built massive colonial empires, and now had millions of people living within their borders. Seeing the military possibilities of this, the Byzantine Senate passed the Conscription Act of 1722, but it was vetoed by the emperor, who refused to accept a law allowing the conscription of all people within the empire, in both senatorial and imperial provinces . So the Act was changed to only allow conscription in Senatorial provinces, which at the time were mostly only in the Balkans and in the Anatolia, along with Judea. But the Emperor, Justinian V, died in 1724, and his son, Constantine the XII was a much more democratic emperor, who allowed the passing of the Senatorial Expansion Act of 1728, which expanded the amount of Senatorial provinces in the empire. He also allowed the passing of the Annexation Act of 1729, where the client Kingdom of Libya, established after the First Global War, was directly annexed as an imperial province. With these acts, by 1740, the Byzantine army had 450,000 men in it. But with the development of warfare and logistics, as well as the increasing bureaucracy of governmental systems across Europe, combined with new technologies and tactics, threatened to make this a very long conflict.
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