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