Früher sah Europa so aus!

Is it https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/iJLbVGiWWg this but cut?

Some day people will start mentioning the author (by the way you can find him just by searching “map 1444” on Reddit)

The bottom of a chips bag be like:

Crusader Kings 3

That’s not really Europe but mostly Germany

So yeah if anyone’s wondering why countries like Liechtenstein exist, the answer is that there used to be hundreds

Oh, just like the gerrymandered US congressional districts.

I would have failed gcse geography in those days

Bismarck 😁👌

But it’s not like every one of those entities was entirely independent and a nation on its own in our modern sense., imagine the HRE as a city where everyone has their own property with some who have bigger ones but the state (the King/Emperor) has jurisdiction over all of it.