I’ve always wondered this. The 7 Years war was fought on multiple continents and decided the world as we know it, just like both World Wars. I just don’t get why it wasn’t seen as a world war and I came here to ask why.
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Many people, including Winston Churchill have described the Seven Years war as the true First World War, and they often describe the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars as the second. The term wasn’t coined at the time partly because at the time of the seven years war a general war involving all the powers of europe at once wasn’t considered to be that unusual- they’d just finished the wars of the Spanish and Austrian Successions less than a generation earlier. What elevated the Seven Years War (and arguably the War of Austrian Succession before it) to ‘World War’ status was the involvement of the British and French colonial empires in North America and India, but this wasn’t all that big a deal at the time for most european powers that didn’t have global colonial empires.
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