Guys how many normies do you think know about the >H >R

literally who?

>>1498552
Da fuck is the HRE?

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They kept asking why I was putting finger quotes around the name. I tried explaining (in a French accent) that the

>holy
>roman
>empire

was anything but.

Then they laughed at me and called me a faggot.

The Byzantine Empire was also there for a thousand years and nobody knows of its existence.

Speaking for myself, the image that I had of the middle ages until about 2 years ago was just complete chaos and lawlessness following the fall of Rome, with lords ruling very small patches of land and the only connection between it all being the church, until the European peoples collectively and spontaneously picked themselves up by their bootstraps and decided to fix everything.

They know what holy is.
They know what Roman is.
And they know what empire is.
But somehow when the three are put together they can't seem to make any sense out of it... Odd.

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>>1498552
>I went around asking people on the street

>>1498661
Well, it really wasn't any of those three.

>>1498654
I'm pretty sure anyone with a middle school education knows the byzantine empire

>>1499038
Not in America

>>1498552
That's because the proper name is the Holy Roman Germanic Empire

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>>1499093
>ic

>>1499081
Yes in America

>>1498552
>I went around asking people on the street

No you didn't.

>>1499093
This. In spanish we call it sacro imperio romano germanico, I think its the same thing in french.

>>1499104
Well there were probably more non-German Germanics than Germans for most of its history. Saxon-speakers, Lombards, Franconians etc.