PugJesus@piefed.socialM to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 1 day ago"Germany is a country" - Delusional Cosplayersmedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square64linkfedilinkarrow-up1331arrow-down11
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minus-squarePugJesus@piefed.socialOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up81·1 day 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-up64·1 day agoFighting the French did help a lot
minus-squarehessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·17 hours agoAcshually briefly being governed by a certain french gentleman helped a lot more.
minus-squareHenriVolney@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 hours agoYou’re right. Bonaparte is the common factor of every European country’s journey to unification, except the UK of course
minus-squareAeronMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up56·24 hours agoHatred of the French brings people together.
minus-squareSeeMarkFly@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·24 hours agoThe enemy of my enemy is my friend.
minus-squareSeductiveTortoise@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·18 hours 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-up2·17 hours agoThat makes Parisians your friends. They have the SAME goal as you. They can HELP you.
minus-squareMajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·24 hours agoInteracting with France is the gateway drug to country-hood.
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·23 hours agoNothing quite like the mutual desire to not be french for making friends.
minus-squareM137@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·17 hours agoIt usually does, no matter the context.
minus-squareGork@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40arrow-down1·23 hours agoWhy didn’t Bohemia, the largest polity, not simply eat the other polities?
minus-squareDanquebec@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours 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.
minus-squareTollana1234567@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·11 hours agotoo busying creating the RHAPSODY?
minus-squareHerr_S_aus_H@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 hours agoBecause reality is not Europa Universalis.
minus-squareKlear@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·18 hours agoWe ate Moravia, the second largest, so there’s that.
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
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
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.
It usually does, no matter the context.
Why didn’t Bohemia, the largest polity, not simply eat the other polities?
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.
too busying creating the RHAPSODY?
Because reality is not Europa Universalis.
We ate Moravia, the second largest, so there’s that.
Ostwald wasn’t born yet