Why Ancient Germany Didn t Thank you for your doubts about the history of ancient Germany.

Ancient Germany was united by the situation of a loose Holy Roman Empire.

The Holy Roman Empire began to decline in the middle of the period, and the emperor could hardly control all of the Holy Roman Empire, only maintaining the rule of the imperial dependency. The rest of the Holy Roman Empire lands were divided by a large number of electors, countdoms, bishops, free cities, and even free villages. Ostensibly part of the Holy Roman Empire, they were in fact completely disobedient to the leadership of the Emperor, leading to the fragmentation of ancient Germany.

Moreover, in the Middle Ages Sweden and Denmark were European powers, at least no worse than the Holy Roman Empire, which was in decline and fragmented, and the Thirty Years' War (the civil war of the Holy Roman Empire, with the Protestant princes on its side, supported by France and Sweden; Catholics on the other side, with the support of Austria), Sweden played a pivotal role in the middle of the war, and if it had not been for the death of King Gustav II at the Battle of Lüzen, the Kingdom of Sweden might have even expanded south into the Holy Roman Empire.

In general, the reason for this was the decline of the Holy Roman Empire and the fragmentation of the country. After the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire by Napoleon, the territory of Germany was controlled by the German Confederation, and although a large number of princes were forcibly merged by Napoleon, the scattered princes in the German Confederation had been reduced to ten figures (khan), but they still could not form a unified whole.

Ancient Germany was united by the situation of a loose Holy Roman Empire.

Medieval Europe was not as centralized as ancient China, and the princes below the king had great autonomy, so they did not have the strength to expand.

Successive German rulers saw themselves as the rightful heirs of the Roman Empire, so they made the conquest of Italy their center of gravity, and the famous Redbeard Fiterik invaded Italy five times. So Germany doesn't have time to care about anything else.

The north is not good, it expands in other directions, the land is good, it is rich.

Hehe! Historical issues must be said authoritatively!!

I really didn't have this one, I remember that it was called Prussia at that time.

The emergence of the German nation was a process that lasted for many centuries. German history is generally believed to have begun in 919 AD. In this year, Duke Henry I of Saxony took the throne of the Kingdom of East Francia and established the Kingdom of Germany.

After Henry I's son Otto I succeeded to the throne, in order to obtain the so-called imperial power granted by God, he forced Pope John X to crown him in Rome in 962 AD, called "Roman Emperor", and the Kingdom of Germany was called "the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation", known as the "First German Empire" in history. The Holy Roman Empire was never a centralized unified state. As the local feudal power became stronger, the power of the emperor continued to decline, and many states were formed.

Germany was the first nation to defeat the Roman Empire. The two largest states in this fragmented empire were Prussia and Austria.

Germany is the Kingdom of East Francia, France is West Francia, and between East and West is Italy.

Kingdom of the Franks (Kingdom of East Francia).

Although both ancient Germany and France were territories ruled by the Franks, there were no national borders. But Lothair I, Charles the Bald and Louis the Germanic divided the Frankish Empire in the Treaty of Verdun in 843, and the Frankish Empire ended and was never reunited. The boundaries demarcated by the Treaty of Verdun were formed:

1.The Kingdom of West Francia existed from 843 to 987. In 987, Louis V of the Carolingian dynasty died, leaving the Carolingian dynasty of West Francia extinct due to his lack of heirs.

Subsequently, the clergy and nobles elected Hugo Capet, Duke of Ile-de-France, as King of West Francia. Hugo Capet established the Capetian dynasty, and the Kingdom of West Francia was eventually replaced by the Kingdom of France.

2.The Kingdom of East Francia existed from 843 to the 10th century AD and encompassed central and western Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Alsace (eventually annexed by France). In 911, the last monarch of East Francia, Louis the Child, died childless, ending Carolingian rule in the Kingdom of East Francia and the succession system was abolished.

The corollation of Otto I as Holy Roman Emperor in Rome in February 962 and the evolution of the Kingdom of East Francia into the Holy Roman Empire are generally considered to be the beginning of Germany as an independent feudal state.

3.The Middle Frankish kingdom was sandwiched between East and West Francia and, for various reasons, did not form a solid political entity. In the following history, its territory was the object of contention between France and Austria, and finally France received most of the land, while the German Holy Roman Empire retained the left bank of the Rhine, and in 1861 the Kingdom of Sardinia united Italy to form the new Kingdom of Italy.

The French, German, and Italian nations were formed successively, and they were quite different from the original Franks.

Germany was a united country by Prussia.

The capital of Prussia was Berlin, so after reunification, its capital was naturally in Berlin, in fact, the economic and cultural center of gravity of Germany has always been in the Rhine-Ruhr area, which is one of the reasons why West Germany made Bonn the capital instead of other large cities such as Munich (Bonn is in the center of the Rhine valley and is the birthplace of Beethoven).

...It's a very innovative statement, the foundation is not strong, haha.

The Ruhr area was originally a coal mine, and the pits were dug and the foundation was not solid.

In fact, Augustus tried to conquer Germany, but he succeeded in digging it, and the second emperor Tiberius withdrew his army to the Rhine, abandoning the plan to conquer the Germans and expand the defense line to the Elbe. Coupled with the fact that Augustus made a rule that no one could expand the territory of the Roman Empire, the Roman Empire was always at hostility with the Germanic peoples living in present-day Germany, but they never conquered each other.