What if the Peace of Westphalia had gone differently?

The settlement that entrenches the sovereign territorial state as Europe's basic unit.

If it had gone differently: Sovereignty stays contested; overlapping empires and churches keep claiming the same ground.

1. 1720The Enlightenment, Absolutism keeps its intellectual cover; 'rights of man' never enters common speech.
2. 1815The Congress of Vienna, No concert of powers forms; 19th-century Europe lurches from war to war with nothing holding the peace.
3. 1871German unification, Central Europe stays a cluster of middle powers; the balance that broke in 1914 never assembles.