A lot of personal knowledge, research, several maps on Wikipedia and YouTube videos. Sometimes sources tend contradict each other or are very hard to get by, so (rarely) some liberties were taken from time to time.
Croatia's status was pretty complicated throughout the Middle Ages as far as I'm aware. However, I've decided to merge it with Hungary as soon as the quiz is updated.
I love these historical quizzes, especially with maps. Thank you for all your efforts! :)
I found one misspelling: Westenburg should be "Westerburg". There is a Westenburg, but it's in South Africa.
(I can fully understand why unifying Germany was such a huge challenge in the 19th century. I'm sorry for the Prussian domination, though. This version looks so much more "multi-coloured". It's not one culture but several.)
This must have took you days, if not weeks to make! And the other year ones. I went at it for 20 minutes, covered the majority of the map, but still only got 140 something out of over 600! Great quiz, I'm off to Google most of these places to read up!
Another great quiz! I feel like I know next to nothing about Europe at the time period haha, but it's still really cool to look at and certainly deserved the feature!
Even with the knowledge granted me by Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis, I've still only got 150 so far. I'm gonna keep trying, though, because I'm a masochist.
This is amazing, and now the nothing I knew about kingdoms of the 1300s has been exposed. Was there actually a concept of "a country" in the 1300s? Preliminary research suggests that nation-states didn't really exist for another couple hundred years.
Thanks! Of course the term "country" wouldn't be 100% accurate in this case, but it should be good enough to describe the polities as shown on the map here.
So would a typical peasant actually consider themself as, say, Schleswiggian? Did they feel kinship to other German speakers (I'm assuming they were German back then too). Or did they not think of things like this because if they didn't tend the fields they'd be punished and possibly starve? Hmm...
Well, I'd imagine they'd indeed identify themselves more with their town or region if anything, but I believe this is still a matter of debate. Although lingual affiliation could definitely have been a factor here too.
The Holy Roman Empire was very diverse, but it also wasn't really a nation state mainly due to its enormous fragmentation over time, but also because the idea of national identity didn't spread to Central Europe until late in the 1700s.
Even then, an unified German identity definitely wouldn't start developing until early in the 19th century.
Incredibly awesome! But I think names should always be accepted in local languages as well, so Styria -> Steiermark and Tyrol -> Tirol, possibly other Austrian places as well
Please remove Dresden from the game. The Margraviate of Dresden only existed between 1288 and 1316 and was intended to be part of the Margraviate of Meißen
here you go, have a nomination and 5 stars
Anyway, good quiz! Nominated.
Scary, but nice quiz....Nominated :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lordship_of_Heinsberg
I found one misspelling: Westenburg should be "Westerburg". There is a Westenburg, but it's in South Africa.
(I can fully understand why unifying Germany was such a huge challenge in the 19th century. I'm sorry for the Prussian domination, though. This version looks so much more "multi-coloured". It's not one culture but several.)
No.
The Holy Roman Empire was very diverse, but it also wasn't really a nation state mainly due to its enormous fragmentation over time, but also because the idea of national identity didn't spread to Central Europe until late in the 1700s.
Even then, an unified German identity definitely wouldn't start developing until early in the 19th century.
Fénétrange is misspelt as "Fenestrange".
I'm learning the states of the Holy Roman Empire by playing your other quiz practically every day. :) Now I can remember these very well.
Yeah I'm joking
Im sorry...WHAT?
Otherwise, really cool quiz!