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.
