PugJesus@piefed.socialM to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 23 days ago"Germany is a country" - Delusional Cosplayersmedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square65linkfedilinkarrow-up1368arrow-down11
arrow-up1367arrow-down1image"Germany is a country" - Delusional Cosplayersmedia.piefed.socialPugJesus@piefed.socialM to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 23 days agomessage-square65linkfedilink
minus-squarePugJesus@piefed.socialOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up83·23 days 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-up66·23 days agoFighting the French did help a lot
minus-squareAeronMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up58·23 days agoHatred of the French brings people together.
minus-squareSeeMarkFly@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·23 days agoThe enemy of my enemy is my friend.
minus-squareSeductiveTortoise@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·23 days 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-up2·23 days agoThat makes Parisians your friends. They have the SAME goal as you. They can HELP you.
minus-squareMajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·23 days agoInteracting with France is the gateway drug to country-hood.
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·23 days agoNothing quite like the mutual desire to not be french for making friends.
minus-squarehessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·23 days agoAcshually briefly being governed by a certain french gentleman helped a lot more.
minus-squareHenriVolney@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·23 days 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-up2·23 days agoIt usually does, no matter the context.
minus-squareGork@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41arrow-down1·23 days agoWhy didn’t Bohemia, the largest polity, not simply eat the other polities?
minus-squareTollana1234567@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·23 days agotoo busying creating the RHAPSODY?
minus-squareHerr_S_aus_H@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 days agoBecause reality is not Europa Universalis.
minus-squareDanquebec@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 days 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
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.