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The Holy Roman Empire should be understood as an elected confederation or alliance, not a hereditary empire with durable centralized control.
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The Holy Roman Empire should be understood as an elected confederation or alliance, not a hereditary empire with durable centralized control.
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"...because this is not really an empire, it's more of a confederation, it doesn't really last much longer after his death. What's really interesting..."
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"Okay? But they keep up the pretense of having an empire because again, in Egypt, what matters is not territory or military or power..."
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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