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Prior to the Rise of Protestantism in the 1500s, which is described by the Community Answer, the German States were all of one religion. However, local fiefdoms retained a strong degree of independence from any national sovereign because of distances between settled regions and that most nobles retained their own knights and armies. That made it impossible to unite Germany as each knight or soldier in the "German" army would actually have more loyalty to his local noble than to the "German" king. It would take the rise of the Modern State and the end of the Medieval Age for a united Germany to even be a serious possibility.

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