Brecht vs Spain

[DanMcSorley]

You could compare it to pre-unification Spain. Before there was 'Spain', there was Aragon and Castile, but before that, there were a couple of dozen little kingdoms, duchies, and such, some of which were Moorish.

[kgauck]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Milos Rasic" <mrasic@TEHNICOM.NET>
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 3:30 PM

> You can`t compare Brechtur with one centralized realm because Brechtur
> is made of many totally independant realms. Anuire is much more like
> Spain. I agree that Brechtur can be compared to Henseistic League: they
> have similar language and rely on trade.

Yet, Spain was hardly a centralized realm (and would not even be so in
Iberia until the Bourbons replaced the Habsburgs). The Spanish Empire was
composed of a multiplicity of crowns, including Castile, Aragon, Burgundy,
Naples, Lombardy, as well as having conquered realms in Granada, Mexico, and
Peru. Each had its own interests, its own political wants and needs, and
this created an internal conflict that eventually threatened to break the
whole empire apart. In many ways (especially when we also consider Spain in
Germany) the so called Spanish Empire more resembles a coallition of crowns,
and not a unified empire.

Kenneth Gauck
kgauck@mchsi.com

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> DanMcSorley wrote:
> You could compare it to pre-unification Spain. Before there was `Spain`, there was Aragon and Castile, but before that, there were a couple of dozen little kingdoms, duchies, and such, some of which were Moorish.
>
Mmmh, thinking of the movie "El Cid" with Sophia Loren, I remember
Navarra, Aragon, Kastilien (german way to write the names, I don´t know
the english).
bye
Michael Romes

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[Satanta]

i think that the brecht are definitly very german, germany of the middle ages wasnt very unified much like brechtur, but they do have aspects which are comparable to the spanish. but they arnt really either . the brechts arnt a carbone copy of any real world race, but if you try to explain them in real world terms id say their largely germanic with some spanish flavour. much like the rjurick are very scandanavian they also got a heavy celtic influence (such as the druids)