GK
WORLD HISTORY
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The type of breakfast that Europeans ate.
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A system of European laws.
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A system to promote the sale of European goods.
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A system to prevent British goods from being sold in Europe.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Continental System, in the Napoleonic wars, the blockade designed by Napoleon to paralyze Great Britain through the destruction of British commerce. The decrees of Berlin (November 21, 1806) and Milan (December 17, 1807) proclaimed a blockade: neutrals and French allies were not to trade with the British.
Detailed explanation-2: -The continental system was the name given to those measures of Napoleon Bonaparte taken between 1806 and 1812 that were designed to disrupt the export trade of Great Britain and ultimately to bring that country financial ruin and social breakdown.
Detailed explanation-3: -Napoleon needed several things to make his Continental System work. For instance, he needed tighter blocking so no one could get through. He also needed to have more troops watch. What were two major disadvantages that Napoleon had going into Russia?