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🌊 Ripple · counterfactual

What if the Congress of Vienna had gone differently?

1815 · central-europe

The great powers redraw Europe and agree to manage it together to prevent another Napoleon.

If it had gone differently: No concert of powers forms; 19th-century Europe lurches from war to war with nothing holding the peace.

What it set up
  1. 1848The Revolutions of 1848, The demands for constitutions and nations are never even rehearsed; the old monarchies feel no pressure to bend.
  2. 1871German unification, Central Europe stays a cluster of middle powers; the balance that broke in 1914 never assembles.

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