just wanted to know what stopped ther unification of germnay before bismarck arrived on the scene ie 1815-1850
2007-09-15 06:03:18 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Mac has it right. The question was which German principality would take the lead. Prussia was clearly the strongest militarily, but that also led to jealousy. I suspect the Germanic leaders realized that the ease with which Napoleonic France had overwhelmed them was due to their divided states. Bismarck was a smooth and shrewd politician. That's the kind of guy necessary to overcome the bickering.
2007-09-15 06:35:06 · answer #1 · answered by Spreedog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Infrastructure. Each German area had its own money, banks, politics, laws, leadership, language dialect, religious traditions, philosophy and culture. This is why the German national anthem states: "Deutschland uber alles" (One Germany over little seperate entities).
Otto Von Bismarck created one single GERMANY by the military unification in 1871 over all the principalities.
2007-09-15 13:15:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋