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What if Napoleon Bonaparte took a different approach to things. As consul of post-revolutionairy France he wanted to spread the Enlightment as well as the Jacobite centralized state in the rest of Europe. He realized that the thought of the Enlightment would spread on its own, seeing that there were French Revolution inspired revolts in the Austrian Netherlands, but that he himself would need to help the idea of an Jacobite centralized state spread. Therefor he turned to the most influential person in Europe, the Pope; claiming that there is no mention of Counts and Dukes in the Bible. Therefor the only 3 'legitimate' forms of government are the 3 'desired by God';

1) an Empire; like the Roman Empire mentioned countless times in the Bible
2) a Kingdom; like Egypt under the Faraos and biblical Isreal (Kind David, etc.)
3) a Republic, ruled by either a President, a Pope or a Consul; the Papacy was according to Napoleon a form of Republic

He proclaimed that it was time Europe adapted "Gods will" by ending the medieval feodality themselves either by joining together in large states or by joining a existing state; and if they would not do so voluntarily, he and the others would bring the lesser state into the New Age by force. He even gave Rousillon back to Aragon (which ITL didn't merge with Castille; Portugal is the Porto region and Galicia, the rest are the Algarvian and Lusitanian provinces of Castille) and promised to undo the territorial changes made by Louis XIV in the North when the Austrian Netherlands were stable as a token of goodwill. The Pope was intrigued by his thoughts and spreaded this 'Proclamatio Napoleontis' over Western and Northern Europe.

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With this in mind, which countries would be formed or which countries would expand leading up to the 1800's?
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