In 1867, rising nationalism led franz josef, the austrian emperor, to divide up the austrian empire into many small, independent countriesremake the austrian empire as the austro-hungarian empire, a union of two nationalitiesguarantee equal treatment to everyone in the empire, regardless of nationalityset up a war with russia in order to unite all nations in his empire--czechs, austrians, slovaks, croats, and hungarians--against a common enemy