Recent content by marcinL

Mybe, but what would be more immediate effect, like, would it change how the ttl Tilsit goes?

As in the title what would be the effects of the entire Prussian royal family dying off during the war of 1806-1807? Some die in battle, other die in accidents, couple are murdered by French soldiers, and finally what's remained of them dies of some or another ilness in winter? Anyway, by the...

imo some coastal town would be better

No, especially when you can launch planes from East Germany in case of Baltic, and Bulagaria, Crimea nad Georgia in case of Black Sea. Buying couple dozen more planes instead or gaining aerial refueling capability would make more sense

The agricultural sector of the region was big but not strong; probably the serfdom was the reason why more advanced economic forms could not start spinning, the domestic consumption was quite weak.

They did and, because they lacked capital, they paid for it with their own people's blood

Actually, I forgot the most important: tokay

You know how colonial powers sailed around the world and invaded various less advanced countries and forced treaties on them that made them produce basic goods and exchange them for developed goods? Our geniuses did that to themselves, so they could sell their grain and buy manufactured goods...

Assuming they would not blow it on whores, operas and paintings: Probably better for Habsburgs and company, for Swedes it depends, Hohenzollerns of course wouldn't get anywhere and could rot in their margraviate, with Turks it's complicated, for Tatars it would be worse, and with Russians we...

Some of them did. And being an economic colony of Amsterdam was the source of the remaining problems....

Important note to all SI time travellers: get yourself some pet philosophers for hire Stockholm. And most of Poland's trouble stems from som of their kings not realizing that. That and not having money independent from Sejm.

Parisians subjugated the rest of the country and forced their culture on it, didnt they?

True.

pointlessly dying while trying to win some vain glory is not sacrifice but suicide and there is nothing heroic about it, we dont call those who die to make a perfect selfie heroes after all Well, at least he didnt send couple thousand men into machine gun fire to win some medal or promotion...

"elective monarchy"