In 1797, Goethe published a collection of poems called Fantasia. This German-language collection of sonnets told a story.
There was a sorcerer's apprentice who, while the old wizard was away, cleverly decided to show off his magic. But he knew only the spell to start the magic, not the one to end it. The result was flooding everywhere, and in the end, the old wizard had to return and clean up the mess.
Also in 1797, the XYZ Affair broke out between America and France. Because of it, relations between the two countries rapidly deteriorated, even reaching the state of a quasi-war. In fact, America and France had already fallen out in 1796 over the Jay Treaty. Britain and France were still at war at the time, while the Jay Treaty was a treaty of friendship and commerce signed by Britain and America. France subsequently announced the suspension of all diplomatic relations with America.
After the XYZ Affair, America signed a peace treaty with Tunisia and wiped out the Berber pirates. Constitution was launched that same year, with the intention of no longer paying the "annual tribute" as it had in the past. In 1798, America established a territory in the Mississippi, announced the severance of trade with France in July, and then signed a trade treaty with Sweden. John Adams's son, John Adams Jr., was responsible for negotiating the matter.
"The lion of the North," Gustav II, launched the Thirty Years' War. Yet to bankers and merchants, Sweden was known not for the king's great achievements, nor for the classical furnishings of its court, but for the birth of the world's first central bank. Food was extremely scarce in Sweden, so local farmers mixed tree bark into flour to make bread last longer. But Sweden's economy was not wholly