The European states encountered significant shifts of power in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Those that succeeded were the ones that created potent central political supremacy. Among them were France and England. However, after the war of Spanish succession, there was a need for economic recovery. The English political unity allows Robert Walpole, to advance economic recovery, while Cardinal Fleury lacked the cooperation of France’s political power to implement economic ascendancy. This allowed …showed first 75 words of 690 total…

…showed last 75 words of 690 total…in France thus his formula for economic success was thwarted by a growing discontentment in the nobility class. With the onset of the Eighteenth century both nations would become a whirlwind of reform and growth. However only England will be able to maintain its central unity and political cooperation. Thus England was able to ride on a tidal wave of success, as it becomes Europe’s supreme power in the latter of the Eighteenth century.