WORTSCHATZ ZUM TEXT: Der historische Hintergrund (4)

  1. Prussian, i.e. from the German state of Prussia in the far east of the German speaking area (today partly in Germany, partly in Poland, partly in Russia)
  2. bourgeoisie, i.e. middle class
  3. led
  4. failed
  5. events
  6. hegemony
  7. founding
  8. asperations
  9. power
  10. successful
  11. conducting politics through treaties
  12. basic currents
  13. world war
  14. connected, linked
  15. explainability
  16. discoveries and inventions
  17. the study of history
  18. different concepts
  19. is caught in a causal chain of factors determined by fate
  20. to suffer
  21. superficial
  22. belief in progress
  23. taste