Check your memories this helps a bit:
19th may be,
I leave 16th 17th for Spanish and Portuguese domination in the world...
but (17th?) and 18th 19th centuries in Europe French language & Culture were ruling and french revolution swept the Europe.
until 1900s diplomatic language throughout the world was French and English would not be so much a dominating Language and Culture without US. English Language and Culture started to dominate the world after the defeats of France in Napoleonic Wars and mainly after World wars......
and if Axis had won the world you can be sure that the world should be speaking German now....
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