ITT: History's Greatest LARPers

>>3078929
Why did Germany develop into a huge amount of tiny fiefdoms before unification? France, UK, never had anything like this.

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>>3078982

>France, UK, never had anything like this

>>3079030
This.
Flanders had a lot of wars with the French king and was basically independent from the start.

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>WE WUZ ALEXANDER N SHIET

Certain of the British Raj
>"God's blood, he's gone native!"

>>3079030
Still nothing like Germany. Some German fiefdoms were the size of a town or city. Also, France was centralized in the Middle Ages (IIRC), whereas Germany remained like in OP pic until Bismarck.

>>3079183

The small principalities were not that much of a problem for the HRE since they were dependent on the empire. The problem were the larger states like Bavaria or Brandenburg/Prussia who were powerful enough to follow their own political goals independently and often against the emperor.

>France was centralized in the Middle Ages

The process was not finished until the early modern era. Right at the end of the Middle Ages, Burgundy emerged as a powerful rival on (partly) French territory; luckily for the French king, Burgundy was dealt with by the Swiss in alliance with the Habsburgs. France centralized early, but they used to be fairly decentralized, which was my point.

>remained like in OP pic until Bismarck

Most of the smaller principalities lost sovereignity in 1803.

I think a non meme answer would be someone like Tamerlane

HWANDAN GOGI

>>3078929
Idi Amin

>>3079183
thats what happen when you LARP as Rome, you get in conflict with the Pope and through that various other powers, also theres this archduchy which have interests outiside of the Empire so unification of the land is not a priority

That one Persian guy who tried to bring bak Zoroastrianism after the Arab conquest.

>>3078929
Is it Bavaria in the yellow?

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>>3078929
Only real empire of west Eurasia was those of Lugalzagesi of Uruk. Every one after him is larping poser.

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Ptolemaic Egypt aka Greeks LARPing as Egyptians

>"eastern"
>""roman""
>"""empire"""

>>3080264
?

>>3078929
Persia after Indo-Europeans.

Basically Arabs larping as Aryans.

>>3080264
Habsburgen Netherlands, 1792 was the year of the first coalition war. After which in 1795 it became the Batavian republic.

>>3079030
These are feudal duchies

It has nothing to do with Culture or Ethnicity unlike Germany's stem duchies