Quiz on Early German Nationalism How did Napoleon's conquests of the German speaking peoples in Central Europe help lead to the unification of Germany? What characteristics of 'Germans' did early nationalists identify? How did Prussian generals evade the French prohibition against a standing army? What were the goals of the diplomats who met at the Congress of Vienna to establish peace after the Napoleonic wars? What were the goals of Metternich's Carlsbad Decrees in 1819? How did Metternich maintain control over the first German Confederation? How did Hegel define freedom differently from the French liberal conception of individual rights? How was Herder's conception of pluralism and 'kultur' at the core of the German conception of national identity? What was Hegel's and Ficte's conception of the German 'volk'? What event in history did Fichte use to define the first German state? What was Hegel's conception of the unique German destiny? What were the goals of the revolutionaries in Germany in 1848? How were these goals crushed by conservatives?