Brief History of Germany
Due to the homo heidelbergensis mandible that was located in Germany in 1907, prehistoric Germany can be traced to about 600 000 years ago. Hereafter, indigenous hunter-gatherers populated the region. Later, many more groups of people spread over the region as newer cultures replaced previous cultures. By the 3rd century, a vast number of West Germanic tribes, the Alamanni, Franks, Bavarii, Chatti, Saxons, Frisii, Sicambri, and Thuringii, along with several large tribes, the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Burgundians, Lombards, Saxons and Franks, took on the Roman Empire that had infiltrated the land and influenced the culture of the inhabitants, and which played a role in the decline of the Empire. By the 5th century, the Frankish empire took control of the eastern land, Austrasia, which included German territory. Soon after, much warfare ravaged the region and different monarchs ascended to the throne. In the middle ages, the Roman Empire once again gained an amount of control over Germany. The Roman Empire had much strife in the land as other groups of people questioned the teachings of the church; so, this gave way to the protestant reformation in the land, which was spearheaded by Martin Luther. After many more wars and revolutions, the more modern Germany saw it’s confederation established. The German confederation was an agreement created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 that formed an association between 39 sovereign German-speaking states in Central Europe. The act was to be a replacement for the Holy Roman empire, which was dissolved in 1806; however, this act too later dissolved in 1866.
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