Ems Dispatch (Civ7)

Ems Dispatch
Civic of the Modern Age
Introduced in Civilization VII
Unique to	Prussian
Civics
Required	Zollverein
Required	Zollverein
Leads to	Bewegungskrieg
Leads to	Bewegungskrieg
Unlocks
Infrastructure	Brandenburg Gate
Policies
Enabled	Realpolitik
Enabled	Realpolitik
Notes
+25% Relationship change from Diplomatic Actions.

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 "Prussia was hatched from a cannonball."
– Napoleon Bonaparte

Ems Dispatch is a unique civic of the Prussian civilization in Civilization VII.

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Civilopedia entry

If World War I was an apocalyptic clash of rival nationalisms, the stage for that conflict had been set long before. One of the preludes to the Great War was a clash in 1870 between Prussia and France, a conflict that displayed the incendiary power of popular sentiment and the destructive potential of nationalism. After the Austro-Prussian war in 1866, Prussia became ascendant in Central Europe, and its rise sparked fears across Europe. After a Hohenzollern (Prussian ruling dynasty) candidate was suggested for the vacant Spanish throne, France’s Napoleon III voiced protest, seeking the candidate’s withdrawal and a promise that no Hohenzollern would ever again stand for the position. This was the final straw for the Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck. The dispatch’s message alerting him to this demand landed in the popular press in Germany and France, and nationalist sentiments boiled over.

The resultant Franco-Prussian War had one decisive result: the unification of Germany in a Prussian-led empire. The clock ticked one notch towards the calamity that detonated forty years later.

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