What Happens When a Country Accumulates Too Much Debt?

When debts become very large and there is an economic downturn and the empire can no longer borrow the money necessary to repay its debts, the financial bubble bursts. This creates great domestic hardships and forces the country to choose between defaulting on its debts or printing a lot of new money. It always chooses to print a lot of new money at first gradually and eventually massively that devalues the currency and raises inflation.For the Dutch, this was the financial crisis brought about by financial ...