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287 - Richard Rohlin - Universal History: The Symbolism Of Nationalism

The Symbolic World

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The History of the Protestant Reformation

Germany is a made-up country. If you look at a medieval map, there's no Germany on that map. Nobody who lived in the place that we call Germany now would have called themselves Germans. The story sort of begins in the Protestant Reformation. 30 Years War incredibly bloody struggle between Roman Catholics and Protestants over basically a very small slice of Western Europe.

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