PugJesus@piefed.socialM to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 4 months ago"Germany is a country" - Delusional Cosplayersmedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square66linkfedilinkarrow-up1372arrow-down11
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minus-squarePugJesus@piefed.socialOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up83·4 months agoExplanation: In the Medieval and Early Modern period, the area we now know as Germany was home to a… staggering variety of independent polities. … it would take quite some time for them all to be sorted out and put under one flag.
minus-squareHenriVolney@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up66·4 months agoFighting the French did help a lot
minus-squareAeronMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up58·4 months agoHatred of the French brings people together.
minus-squareSeeMarkFly@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·4 months agoThe enemy of my enemy is my friend.
minus-squareSeductiveTortoise@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 months agoThe enemy of my enemy is the French. Even if my enemy is the French, then the enemy of them is probably Parisians.
minus-squareSeeMarkFly@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoThat makes Parisians your friends. They have the SAME goal as you. They can HELP you.
minus-squareMajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·4 months agoInteracting with France is the gateway drug to country-hood.
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·4 months agoNothing quite like the mutual desire to not be french for making friends.
minus-squarehessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 months agoAcshually briefly being governed by a certain french gentleman helped a lot more.
minus-squareHenriVolney@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoYou’re right. Bonaparte is the common factor of every European country’s journey to unification, except the UK of course
minus-squareM137@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoIt usually does, no matter the context.
minus-squareGork@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41arrow-down1·4 months agoWhy didn’t Bohemia, the largest polity, not simply eat the other polities?
minus-squareKlear@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 months agoWe ate Moravia, the second largest, so there’s that.
minus-squareTollana1234567@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 months agotoo busying creating the RHAPSODY?
minus-squareHerr_S_aus_H@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoBecause reality is not Europa Universalis.
minus-squareDanquebec@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoThe smaller polities can ally. Also, a single small polity can be relatively powerful based on its wealth and population density. It can also have local defensive advantages.
Explanation: In the Medieval and Early Modern period, the area we now know as Germany was home to a… staggering variety of independent polities.
… it would take quite some time for them all to be sorted out and put under one flag.
Fighting the French did help a lot
Hatred of the French brings people together.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
The enemy of my enemy is the French. Even if my enemy is the French, then the enemy of them is probably Parisians.
That makes Parisians your friends. They have the SAME goal as you. They can HELP you.
Interacting with France is the gateway drug to country-hood.
Nothing quite like the mutual desire to not be french for making friends.
Acshually briefly being governed by a certain french gentleman helped a lot more.
You’re right. Bonaparte is the common factor of every European country’s journey to unification, except the UK of course
It usually does, no matter the context.
Why didn’t Bohemia, the largest polity, not simply eat the other polities?
Ostwald wasn’t born yet
We ate Moravia, the second largest, so there’s that.
too busying creating the RHAPSODY?
Because reality is not Europa Universalis.
The smaller polities can ally.
Also, a single small polity can be relatively powerful based on its wealth and population density. It can also have local defensive advantages.