• Parahsalin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Germany could pretty accurately be described as “Warring Tribes” until Bismark unified Germany in 1870. Doesn’t take that long for these things to change.

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      1 year ago

      You got to be kidding me. Do you even have an idea of Germany’s pre-modern and modem history?

      Germany’s “warring states” (mind you: states, not tribes) produced Charlemagne and a streak of European emperors, as well as a hundreds of artists, scientists, and philosophers including Goethe, Hegel, and Kant. It was one of the first countries to be reached by the Enlightenment.

      Italy could also be described as “warring states” during the Renaissance.

      What has Afghanistan produced when women aren’t even allowed to complete secondary education?