The Great Northern War and War of Spainish succession engulfed virtually the entirety of the European-influenced world into a decade and a half of feirce warfare, arguably as important a Centennial event as the Thirty Years War before it Napoleonic Wars after in reshaping the diplomatic balance by waving out the old Renissance powers (Spain, Sweden, Poland) from their position to independently influence affairs and bringing Russia and Prussia to the stage, but unlike in other major war spats stayed almost entirely seperate conflicts in Western and Eastern Europe. Arguably, it only was this way due to very specific timing on the oppritunistic, unprompted joint attack on Sweden by the opposing alliance and the location of the fronts: the proximity of Denmark and Sweden and the isolation of the East Baltic backwater from the Atlantic world resulting in the GNW participants being in direct contact far away before things finally boiled over in Spain. However, what of Russia,Denmark, Poland,and Saxony had dithered in their alliance for a few years until after the Bourbon and Hansburg factions had come to blows? Certainly, tensions in the Baltic make some kind of conflict likely,but how could it pan out if it's folded into the greater War of Spainish Succession? Who might each side chose to align with, and how could that change the situation on the battlefield? How might our perceptions of the historical event change if we see it as one big conflict/series more akin to World War 1 or Napoleon?