A pair of elaborate puffed and slashed Arm Harnesses, Germany, ca. 1520, housed at the Musée de l'Armée.

Charlemagne’s throne in the Byzantine style Cathedral in Aachen, Germany.

Charlemagne was called the first Holy Roman Emperor of the HRE, when uniting huge territories in Europe.

Full Aachen & Charlemagne video

The Cathedral was built in the style of the Eastern Roman Empire: Byzantium. This is after the fall of Rome. In the Middle Ages, and still centuries before the renaissance started in Italy.

The Aachen Dom / Cathedral of Aachen is a must see.

The detailed and splendid mosaics in the Cathedral are from after Charlemagne’s days.

I’m crying, this author was UNHINGED 😂😂

can I request german bros? (with baby germany ofc🤍)

He was just a child himself, with the weight of the world on his shoulders

Art from Pompeii, Italy V

more pompeii art found here

History Memes #44

Higuys wip

wow i did not expect an austria game in eu4 to actually go well for me, however, somehow i managed to unite the HRE into one country, conquered spain and thanks to that took over their colonial nations, portugal fell under a PU with me at some point, the spanish declared a succession war when that happened, it was an easy win though, just took time.

I started out the game basically by just speedrunning getting a bohemian and austrian PU, then went for poland, while also doing diplomatic fuckery to spread the habsburgs. This led to a Swedish, Saxonian, Portugese and British PU eventually, saxony and the brits were a claim on throne war. did some conquering in poland to finish the mission that gets you a restoration of union CB on poland, it wasn't that helpful unfortunately, russia also took a lot of their lands. then after taking i think it was venice and Milan, i got the restoration of union CB on naples and did that as well :3

so there i was with 7 personal unions at once + some subjects from the HRE, the religious league war was pretty fast, catholicism won, i revoked some free cities to enforce the religion, and i was left with a HRE free from heresy, this in addition to the historical center of Prague and austrian national ideas made getting imperial authority easy, and soon enough i disallowed internal wars, making centralization of the empire even easier, yippee ;3

once i revoked the privilegia i declared a couple wars, the vassal swarm was amazing, first i took some provinces from the ottomans to finish an austrian mission that wanted me to get some serbian provinces, then spain, thanks to the way they choose how to declare wars (iirc they don't consider subjects of an overlord when declaring war on a subject of of said overlord, which gave them the amazing idea to start a colonialism war against Holland, which was my vassal, this called the entire HRE and my PUs into the war) It was fucking horrible. fighting countries that have colonial subjects is SO fucking exhausting, I've had your entire mainland occupied for >15 years and we're still only at ~40% war score because their fucking colonial subjects are untouched. horrible.

Anyways, I now own all of the HRE, most of france, all of the nordic countries, the british isles, iberia, hungary, bohemia, poland, half of Lithuania, all of Italy, morocco, 90% of the americas, australia and half of south africa.

monthly balance is at 4.5k, my manpower pool was into 3 or 4 million, I don't remember exactly, army limit was at 3 million, and navy limit at around 3k iirc, as of rn i only have 1k ships, and around 2.5m bitches in the army, and i have 155 absolutism

Dance Kid 🤢 vs Theatre Kid 🤮

Redraw of @unanchored-ship 's sketch

A Mace of unusual form,

OaL: 25.9 in./65.7 cm

Diameter: 4.5 in/11.5 cm

Weight: 5.2 lbs/2.4 kg

Germany, ca. 1520, housed at the Kunsthistorischesmuseum, Vienna.

A mini comic about Chibi Venezuela meeting some "new friends", Vene surely doesn't like Spain or HRE so much.

Guys if you liked this mini comic, please reblog it and share what you thought about it in the tags~ i had a lot of fun doing this mini comic so if you would like another drawings and stuff about Vene plz let me know~ (⁠*⁠´⁠ω⁠｀⁠*⁠)

(pls don't tag this as gerita)

The first (and real) harem ever

Del Toro's Pinocchio having Carlo's soul but not actually BEING Carlo and being his own person reminds me of the situation with HRE and Germany. Germany borrowed HRE's body, but he is a different person.

"[...] he didn't like the idea of it being a reincarnation story. He said, "How can we fight that?" Because he shouldn't turn into Carlo, we have to keep Pinocchio Pinocchio. I really love that line I came up with, "the wooden boy with the borrowed soul."

I just think it's interesting.

Holy Roman Empire.