Also, I think "Stauferstadt" should be replaced with "(Schwäbisch) Gmünd" instead, since the former refers to any city that has the status with the noble dynasty of the Staufer (Swabia).
Feudal fragmentation. One example could that if after a dynasty dies out or if there's a dispute in succession, there's a chance that the land that former monarch will get partitioned into even more different states.
Amazing map!!! As someone who has very little patience, I'd never be able to pull off something this complex, so I find it mind-boggling when someone manages to do it. This definitely deserves to be featured some day!
Thanks! I'm not the original author of the base of the map. However redrawing the borders, making extra additions and assigning the correct government type to each of them was very time consuming.
I have a question about the earldoms. Did they exist in the HRE? I cannot really find anything about it. I'm digging in the so called 'Kleinstaaterei' history so any help would be appreciated :)
I'm not really sure. The original author of the source map does mention that liberties were taken so obviously there are bound to be some mistakes here and there. I can however confirm that the states definitely existed.
I swear I think I know a good amount until I take a quiz on HRE subdivisions and beat 30% of people. Maybe it's because Bremen doesn't exist in my brain but Schwarzburg does.
Some of us have had quite an advantage over the others, having done this quiz for months and years. :)
Whenever it's re-set, it's as if you've never done it before, even if you know all the states by heart already. Nerds like me have already had as many as three first chances. I really love this quiz, though, and I don't mind doing it over and over again at all.
(What I do mind is being a philosophy fan and forgetting about Wittgenstein...)
This happened often with appanages / further fragmentation of states. Likely to done differentiate states from each other and to indicate the seat of power in each respective state. This could get pretty ridiculous in terms of the names, point in case: Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Vohenstrauss-Parkstein
Mergentheim was part of one of the commanderies under Teutonic control within the HRE. Even after the State of the Teutonic Order dissolved in 1526, it remained under ecclesiastical control all the way until 1809. It served as the headquarters for the order up to that point as well.
It is. If you look at the Wikipedia page for the State of the HRE, you find a lot that don't even have Wikipedia pages because they were so small and only existed for a few generations.
A minor thing (not worth making a change to the quiz, but if you ever do update it, I'd appreciate if you could keep this in mind):
When I typed in "munster" it gave me credit for (the Free City of) Munster but not for (the Prince-Bishopric of) Münster.
Which I'd be ok with in the general case, except that:
1. Other entries will accept "u" for "ü" so this one is a bit inconsistent with that; and
2. Because it gave me credit for one of them, I didn't notice that it wasn't both, and so just carried on without even realizing I was leaving an easy point on the table.
(Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that both were denoted Münster in either case?)
Anyway; as I said, a minor point, but would be nice if it were addressed if/when convenient. Otherwise, fun quiz!
They've should've already been accepted by typing "munster". I believe only one was accepting "Muenster", however. It definitely should've been accepted by both considering the German spelling for the modern-day city in France is in fact also "Münster (im Elsass)". Change pending.
By my count, even a perfect knowledge of every game tag (including dozens of releasables that are not playable at game start) would only net you 116, which is just under 30% of the total. It really makes you appreciate the compromises that Paradox has to make when reducing the entire world into 3137 provinces.
German name for Oświęcim, which would later be the site for the concentration camp. Though it's the modern German spelling, a more contemporary German spelling would've been "Auswintz".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwäbisch_Gmünd#History
Sorry for the nitpicks
Oh my god...
And a 5 star rating.
Also how is the average score a 70?
But seriously, how the hell is the average score a 70?
Also the map is screaming to me,
"You're about to have a super hard time dealing with this quiz"
300 something answers (I saw this before)
maybe a few more meeks
Thanks!
Whenever it's re-set, it's as if you've never done it before, even if you know all the states by heart already. Nerds like me have already had as many as three first chances. I really love this quiz, though, and I don't mind doing it over and over again at all.
(What I do mind is being a philosophy fan and forgetting about Wittgenstein...)
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When I typed in "munster" it gave me credit for (the Free City of) Munster but not for (the Prince-Bishopric of) Münster.
Which I'd be ok with in the general case, except that:
1. Other entries will accept "u" for "ü" so this one is a bit inconsistent with that; and
2. Because it gave me credit for one of them, I didn't notice that it wasn't both, and so just carried on without even realizing I was leaving an easy point on the table.
(Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that both were denoted Münster in either case?)
Anyway; as I said, a minor point, but would be nice if it were addressed if/when convenient. Otherwise, fun quiz!