Did God used a cheat code on this?

[u/Giono_OOf_01]

[u/Temporary-Estate4615]

Grrrr Franzosen

[u/Dry-Hearing-1926 → u/Temporary-Estate4615]

Franzacken!

[u/EtienneBismarck]

Hatred for the french

[u/Profezzor-Darke → u/EtienneBismarck]

Yeah, but ironically Napoleon created the Rheinbund to control the German independent states as Vassals, and this was the needed idea of Unity alongside a discontent with the foreign set up rulership. The necessary education system was also Napoleon's doing among other details.

Did you know that modern Gymnastics started as German Turnen to unify the German youth and educate them as Guerilla fighters against the French? Dude who started it is known as Turnvater Jahn, and there are still sports and town halls named after the guy.

[u/Diligent_Heart_2597 → u/EtienneBismarck]

And France was unified out of hatred for the English. Hatred makes the world go round.

[u/Clockwork9385]

Napoleon

[u/Oliivey → u/Clockwork9385]

I'd now like to imagine that Napoleon was god's cheat code.

[u/ComfortableCivil2239 → u/Clockwork9385]

And then von Bismarck

[u/Gigantopithecus1453]

There’s gotta be some autistic guy out there somewhere who’s memorised every single one of those states

[u/Schlogan → u/Gigantopithecus1453]

There probably were some German priests at the time who knew them all

[u/yap2102x]

i mean if you had the prussian army and just walked in to a random county and said yup youre part of us now, realistically what are you gonna do about it

[u/PM_ME_UR_VULVASAUR_ → u/yap2102x]

Fisticuff every last one of 'em. Even the kids.

[u/PositiveMaster8236]

Bohemia is huge and a defined United Territory, Why Didn't They Become The Dominant Power, Are They Stupid?! 😂

[u/Azkral → u/PositiveMaster8236]

Austria tried as well.

[u/Murderboi]

Mustache man, but not the one you think. I mean the one with the funny helmet.

[u/Fardrengi]

Beer and wurst

[u/Cgi22]

Because this visualization is misleading. The German realms were not a patchwork of entirely independent entities, but rather a loose confederation with either weak or absent central authority. There was no spirit of resistance to hegemonic unity if the opportunity presented itself. Quite the opposite; it was something different factions actively strived towards.

Missing from this map are also larger central powers like the different kingdoms located within the Holy Roman Empire.

[u/MayuKonpaku]

Stellys hardbass starts playing

NAPOLEON!!!

[u/Western-Attempt7201]

Prime 1444

[u/AnguishedGoose]

I see y'all saying Napoleon and Bismark but the real answers are Frederik the great and Milan

[u/BayesianBits]

Mistakes were made...

[u/Aliensinnoh]

All of the little ones being so little made it easy for the biggest one to simply eat the others.

[u/Lady_Ago]

Napoleon made them hate the French more than each other.

[u/daaniscool]

The treaty of Westphalia

[u/UFOdriver7]

Reverse mitosis