Balance of Power Practice Test

The Habsburg-Ottoman cooperation in the sixteenth century, which was based on shared Catholic identity and mutual defense of Christendom.

France’s support for Protestant powers during the Thirty Years’ War to weaken the Habsburgs, despite France’s Catholic monarchy and clerical interests.

The Quadruple Alliance of 1917, which unified monarchies to restore dynastic legitimacy and avoid ideological compromise across regime types.

The Catholic League’s alliance network during the French Wars of Religion, which aimed chiefly at confessional uniformity rather than counterweighting a hegemon.

The Crusader states’ coalition with the papacy, which pursued religious warfare and pilgrimage security rather than European equilibrium politics.