Why was the HRE so perfect, bros?
>H
>>972257
>Fuck
>Off
>>972267
The ironic thing is that somebody so clever as Voltaire might find his memeposting to be incredibly boring.
Or he might just revel in the dickassery. Who knows.
>>972267
>o
>>972271
Well when we get to hell we can ask him
>>972278
Gonna be pretty sweet.
>>972288
How bad can it be?
Dante's limbo is pretty much a status quo for anyone who kills themselves out of depression. I'd have a chuckle at the nerds if I landed there my self.
>>972291
IIRC there's a Holy Roman Emperor in it
>>972291
>How bad can it be?
Do I need to spell this out for you?
>Holy
>Roman
>Empire
now imagine hearing this an infinite number of times
>>972303
On second thought, I'm gonna go rape somebody.
They really should transform the EU into a HRE successor state. Imagine emperor Wilders meeting Trump infront of a huge golden flag with a doubleheaded eagle...
>>972271
>Voltaire
>clever
>>972309
I can already see future clapper and chink memeposters constantly going
>E
>U
With a profile picture of a smug Trump.
Thanks for that, anon.
>>972253
The HRE is truly underrated. If I had to be a commoner living somewhere in the middle ages, I'd probably choose the HRE; preferably one of the Free Cities.
>>972540
>preferably
Nigga do you like starving or bandits or feuding lords?
>>972546
The cities were wealthy centres of commerce. You could make a good living there as an artist or craftsman, and even raise in social status. The patricians of the cities held a higher status than the Imperial Knights. The richest man of the European late middle ages, Jakob Fugger, was a commoner born in the Empire.
>>972546
actually being a commoner in a free city/italian city state > Being a commoner anywhere else in Medieval Europe
You have shit like the city charter and urban laws giving you pretty much the medieval equivalent of "civil rights" as opposed to some tenanted peasant in France.
>>972558
Living standards in cities were so shit that they only survived demographically by influx from the countryside up till the 18th century or something.
>>972571
The living standards were quite okay by medieval standards. Also, this was pretty much the only way to rise to the top as a commoner.
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>>972578
>look at all the shit we built to prevent the neighbor 3 miles away from taking our shit
>oh shit, french cannons can melt brick walls
>>972571
>implying it is different nowadays
>>972583
It took quite a bit of development before artillery was capable of razing city walls.
>>972594
Not to mention that in most cases it wouldn't have been the French, but other German states that were the greatest threat.
>>972595
Unlike... oh no, it was pretty much same everywhere in Europe.
>>972571
Nope. IIRC industrial cities became self sufficient in the 18th century, but we're talking about medieval cities.
There was no incentive to cram medieval cities full of people.
>>972578
>In the country of Westphalia, in the castle of the most noble Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh, lived a youth whom Nature had endowed with a most sweet disposition. [...] The Baron was one of the most powerful lords in Westphalia, for his castle had not only a gate, but even windows, and his great hall was hung with tapestry.
>first time hearing about this "Holy Roman Empire"
>sounds badass
>catholic knights and holy emperors
>turns out to just be a German autistic mess of different independent areas
>less unified that European Union today
>never accomplished anything
>mfw
>>972696
>less unified that European Union today
That's not even true.
>H
>R
>E
>>972706
please tell when the last member of the EU declared war on a fellow member
I'll wait
>>972710
Please tell me the last time an EU member was a significant belligerent side in any major, conventional war.
>>972696
I know this feeling all too well.
>United States
>Civil War
And you thought this'd be a history board.
>>972739
I'm implying that it is not right to gauge the level of integration in the EU on the fact that nobody in the EU has fought wars with each other, when nobody in the EU has fought real wars with anybody at all.
>>972578
beautiful.
>ywn live in the countryside of the Catholic Bavaria
>>972271
A houseplant would find this memeposting boring.
>>972271
The sad thing is that this is reddit-tier memeposting. Most of the people here probably learned about it by watching John Green's videos.
>>972710
Soon.
As soon as Serbia or Turkey join.
>>972253
Cursed
Hunnic
Caliphate
It was an anarcho-royal paradise.
>>972857
>and get skewered while your wife is raped by protestant rogues in revenge for the exact same thing Catholics did to them
>ywn die of starvation and plague in squalid conditions
>ywn fear your survival when locusts arrive to eat your crops
Why even die?
>>975679
>wanting to live in the middle of the Thirty Years War
>Not Holy
>Not Roman
>Not an Empire
Voltaire.jpg
>you will never experience the excitement when celebrating the enthronement of a new emperor
voltaire memes aside, /his/
oh wait that's impossible
>>972257
>>972271
>>972277
>>972278
>>972354
>>972581
>>972708
>"Already the English were taking possession of the best lands and of those most advantageously situated that could be possessed in northern America beyond Florida, when two or three merchants from Normandy, on the slight hope of a small commerce of furs, equipped a few vessels, and established a colony in Canada, a country covered with snows and ices eight months of the year, inhabited by barbarians, bears and beavers.
>"The war is serious, then. I wish the earthquake had engulfed that miserable Acadia instead of Lisbon and Mequines
>"You know that these two nations are at war about a few acres of snow somewhere around Canada, and that they are spending on this beautiful war more than all Canada is worth.
t. voltaire
translation: A fucking leaf
>>972647
How can one guy be so smug
>>972294
>Usurers
>>972755
WUZ
>>978038
[spoiler]Dante saw jews in hell[/spoiler]
>>979239
wait why didn't this work
[spoiler] I'm a fucking retard [/spoiler]
>>972309
>transform the EU into a HRE successor state
Great, now we don't have to argue about which one is the gayest meme government in history.
>>978204
MERCENARIES
>>972744
>Civil
>Sherman murder-rapes his way across the South
They fucking deserved it, but still.
>>979360
Because the one thing a board which prohibits posting things less than 25 years old needs it's spoiler tags.
