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On Sat, 8/30/14, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Subsec Dukes at the Sector capital [was Re: [TML] expected ship traffic]
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Saturday, August 30, 2014, 8:39 PM
  
 Medieval France represents a land where the major
 vassal families largely succeeded in The Unification
 Dance; medieval Germany represents a land where they failed
 miserably.   
  
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True, but, ironically, France was also where the monarch became virtually absolute while the noble's(vassal's) power declined greatly.
Of course the germans never became truly unified till Hitler came along.

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