You’re absolutely right about this. The Republic of Venice, Holy Roman Empire, and Poland-Lithuania Commonwealth were all still around when America was founded

You’re absolutely right about this. The Republic of Venice, Holy Roman Empire, and Poland-Lithuania Commonwealth were all still around when America was founded. Malta was still under the control of the Crusaders. Mongols still occupied Crimea. The modern European map really comes from the 19th and 20th centuries. Many European memories of nationhood are quite fake, and often deliberately so.