AH Challenge: Unite Italy and Germany

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Easy (sort of), HRE does much better, pacifying Northern Italy through violence and colonization. Eventually after hundreds of years and much killing, Italy becomes Germanic.
 
Exactly what it says. Unite what will eventually become Italy and Germany into one nation, by 1850.

Well, of course, the easiest way to do this would be to find a way to keep the Holy Roman Empire in being, transform it into a true state rather than a collection of independent statelets bound by feudal obligations to the Emperor, and also to maintain and expand the authority of the Holy Roman Emperor over Italy.

That being said, nothing about any of the above is necessarily EASY. :eek:

Finding a way to butterfly away the Norman presence in southern Italy and Sicily would be a major stride in the right direction. Finding a way to avoid the conflict between the Emperors and the Pope would be another.
 
I would still go for the HRE uniting the two countries. Actually, it had already been done, sort of.

In 1547, Charles V of HRE inherited almost everything excepted for France in Europe, basically a Napoleon but without France. unless you call that uniting Italy and Germany then he already did so, even if nominally.
 
The Habsburgs were still claiming the title "King of Italy" in the 18th century, and one of them actually tried to claim the right to appoint a King of Someplaccia when a vacancy occurred, leading to the War of the Someplaccian Succession in those years.
 
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