Was it autism?

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>Sacrum
>Romanum
>Imperium

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The amount of holy clay lost must be about ~75%, at least.

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France was lucky Britain tried to conquer it. Consolidate that shit.

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It literally was. But in the end there's more social-civic freedoms there than in fucking Medieval England or in France.

>>1098874
Muh Gavelkind tradishin

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Germans are an autistic people, you should know this.

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Not really, people generally knew where they stood in the Empire and though it confuses us today.

But /his/ is mostly people who play grand strategy that assumes everything that isn't a great consolidated state must have been a shit place to live as well.

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>Nicht darstellbare Kleinterritorien

But seriously, the Holy Roman Empire might look like a clusterfuck today, but most medieval realms were fragmented to some degree. The Empire just had the added problem of having a very weak central authority.

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>Bowing down to one king
>not gay

Okay.