WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -It was comprised of an enlarged France (which had swallowed Belgium and Holland, parts of Germany, and the Italian coast all the way to Rome) and various puppet nations actually ruled by Napoleon or by a Bonaparte subservient to Napoleon.

Detailed explanation-2: -Napoleon took over the French “Army of Italy, ” drove the Austrians and Sardinians out of Piedmont, defeated the Papal States, and occupied Venice.

Detailed explanation-3: -His empire stretched from Belgium and Holland in the north to Rome in the south, covering nearly half a million square miles and boasting a population of 44 million.

Detailed explanation-4: -At its height in 1812, the French Empire had 130 departments, ruled over 44 million subjects, maintained an extensive military presence in Germany, Italy, Spain, and Poland, and counted Austria and Prussia as nominal allies.

Detailed explanation-5: -napoleon dominated most of europe through forceful diplomacy, by placing friends and relatives on the thrones of europe. he annexed the netherlands, belguim, and parts of italy and germany into his empire. napoleon waged economic warfare through the continental system, closing european ports to british goods.