Kingdom of Germany colonies

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Also a centralized Germany would be able to focus on building up its infrastructure and could focus more on commerce and developing the land and cities without having to be constantly worried about fighting wars internally. Also by focusing on external war the kingdom has a safety valve for its aggressive young men and nobles.

Well we could still see French like religious conflict within the state despite centralization if one side on the Reformation tries (a pretty plausible scenario in my opinion) to suppress the other other. A Huguenot type war inside Germany would probably set that kind of development back significantly. It would be interesting to see a timeline where a united Protestant Germany is fighting Catholic rebels at the same time France is doing the same against the Huguenots. That would make for some interesting developments.
 
I'd imagine that an early united, centralized Germany would be able focus its efforts outward instead of on internal power struggles that plagued the HRE, especially 11th-13th centuries. Plus without Italy to worry about that would remove a major source of conflict, as the Alps were pretty much a check at that time on any threat from the south. That pretty much leaves France, Poland, and Hungary as potential threats. France was still pretty weak politically during the 11th-15th centuries, so could be potentially intervened in and broken up/kept disunited like Germany was by France later on. Poland was also pretty weak compared to Germany and could be colonized and pushed back, especially after the Mongols show up, same with Hungary.

The thing is, even if Germany centralizes/unites, it's going to be doing so at roughly the pace of OTL France - it won't be in a position to do that to France and Poland and Hungary.

Also a centralized Germany would be able to focus on building up its infrastructure and could focus more on commerce and developing the land and cities without having to be constantly worried about fighting wars internally. Also by focusing on external war the kingdom has a safety valve for its aggressive young men and nobles.

So, like OTL France.
 
The thing is, even if Germany centralizes/unites, it's going to be doing so at roughly the pace of OTL France - it won't be in a position to do that to France and Poland and Hungary.

One thing i don't think anyone has pointed out: The balance of power. If Germany can unite into a centralized power, then it can reasonably expand in all directions (if it chooses so), which may bring cascading alliances between Germany's enemies.
 
One thing i don't think anyone has pointed out: The balance of power. If Germany can unite into a centralized power, then it can reasonably expand in all directions (if it chooses so), which may bring cascading alliances between Germany's enemies.

No more so than OTL France, though.

No less, most likely, but no more.
 
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