AHC: Delay Nationalism by 100 years

For all Nationalism you'd have to go back pretty far, however to delay most of it a century you'd need to prevent the French Revolution which gave rise to alot of turmoil throughout Europe both directly (Napoleon) and indirectly (other powers going to war with Rev. France to strangle the idea of the Republic) and prevent something similar for most of the 19th century.

Having said that Nationalism as a major thing would probably develop in other places before then AND it would probably look different, that is we may instead of seeing German Nationalism, see Bavarian and Prussian Nationalism etc.
 

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Challenge: Delay nationalism by a hundred years.
There has been pseudo-nationalistic movements and identities stretching into the mists of time, but for the more modern nationalist movement that was vastly influence and sprung from the revolutions in the Americas and France. An earlier, less noticeable, move for this was in the Netherlands. If you want to prevent the nationalism that we understand, then find a way to prevent the revolutions in the Americas and in France. The POD will probably be in the early 1700s or prior to that, but its doable with some careful PODs.
 
It is possible that nationalism first came to England in the late Anglo-Saxon times, and certainly by the time of the Norman invasion a "nation of England" could be identified.

So really we are talking about continential nationalism. The French had the idea of a nation certainly by Edward III's time and with Joan D'Arc could have had a national idol (however they sold her down the river to the English).
 
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