why is world war 1 called that if it only took place in europe

>>1737278
It also happened in Africa

>WE

Because it involved all the major world powers.

Really though, because it was so big compared to the century or so of peace before it.

>>1737285
And Asia.

>>1737286
>19th century
>century of peace
/his/ was a mistake

>>1737278
Because calling it the Great European War sounded lame to them for some reason.

GER thas a cool accronym

>>1737292
Please name a general European war in between the Napoleonic Wars and WW1.

After you're done with that, please kill yourself.

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>>1737300
sam houston

>>1737278
>everyone forgets the Ottomans
As crazy as it may seem, roaches were once a world power.

>>1737278

Because it also took place in Asia and Africa, and it involved nations from every continent - thus making it a World War.

>>1737289
And South America.

>>1737306
>European

>>1737306
>I was just trolling mom, you don't get it

Seriously though, the period in between 1815 and 1914 is generally viewed as a period of relative peace, created by the concert of Europe.

Between these two periods, you didn't have any wars where all of the major powers in Europe mobilized their militaries and fought for years at a time.

>>1737300

Does the Crimean war not count?

The only major power not involved in that one was Austria-Hungary.

Couple that with the Franco-Prussian war and all of Bismarcks autism and it seems a bit disingenuous to claim that 19th century europe was peaceful.

>>1737300
1803 Irish Rebellion of 1803
1803 Souliote War
1803–1815 Napoleonic Wars
1804–1813 First Serbian Uprising
1804–1813 Russo-Persian War
1808–1809 Finnish War
1809 Polish–Austrian War
1815–1817 Second Serbian Uprising
1817–1864 Russian conquest of the Caucasus
1821–1832 Greek War of Independence
1821 Wallachian uprising
1823 French invasion of Spain
1826–1828 Russo-Persian War
1827 War of the Malcontents
1828–1829 Russo-Turkish War
1828–1834 Liberal Wars
1830 Ten Days' Campaign (following the Belgian Revolution)
1830–1831 November Uprising
1831 Canut revolts
1831–1832 Bosnian Uprising
1831–1836 Tithe War
1832 War in the Vendée and Chouannerie of 1832
1832 June Rebellion
1833–1839 First Carlist War
1833–1839 Albanian Revolts of 1833–39
1843–1844 Albanian Revolt of 1843–44
1846 Galician slaughter
1846–1849 Second Carlist War
1847 Albanian Revolt of 1847
1847 Sonderbund War
1848–1849 Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence
1848–1851 First Schleswig War
1848–1849 First Italian War of Independence
1853–1856 Crimean War
1854 Epirus Revolt of 1854
1858 Mahtra War
1859 Second Italian War of Independence
1861–62 Montenegrin–Ottoman War (1861–62)
1863–1864 January Uprising
1864 Second Schleswig War
1866 Austro-Prussian War
1866–1869 Cretan Revolt
1866 Third Italian War of Independence
1867 Fenian Rising
1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War
1872–1876 Third Carlist War
1873–1874 Cantonal Revolution
1875–77 Herzegovina Uprising (1875–77)
1876–78 Serbian–Ottoman War (1876–78)
1876–78 Montenegrin–Ottoman War (1876–78)
1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War
1878 Epirus Revolt of 1878
1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War
1897 Greco–Turkish War

>>1737331
See, the wars that the period is being compared to is the Napoleonic Wars, WW1, and the Thirty Years War.

The wars in the interim didn't require mobilizing the entire populations of countries, didn't involve all of the great powers, and didn't last for years.

By those standards, the concert of Europe worked pretty well.

This isn't coming out of my ass, this is coming out of the books I've read on the subject.

>>1737336
>I was merely pretending

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