claim: Japan is represented by two centralized governments.
evidence: The German-speaking states in the early modern period -LRB- 1500 -- 1800 -RRB- were divided politically and religiously .. They all suffered greatly in the Thirty Years War -LRB- 1618 -- 1648 -RRB- .. Thirty Years War. Thirty Years War. Catholic Austria and Lutheran Prussia were the major players .