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Westphalian treaties literally forged the modern nation state
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After thirty years of utterly destroying the continent over internal religious squabbles, exhausted delegates finally sat down and invented the deeply radical concept of sovereignty. They basically agreed that leaders should stop casually invading their neighbors just to force their peasants to go to a slightly different church on Sundays.
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