: A Short History of Germany by Parmele Mary Platt - Germany History

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Indo-European Migrations--Divisions of the Aryan Family into European Races--The Teutonic Race

Hermann--Defeat of Varus--Characteristics of the Ancient Germans

Social Conditions--Form of Government--The Goth in Rome--A Gothic Kingdom in Spain--The Teuton Race Covering the European Surface--The Angles and Saxons in Britain

Ulfilas--The Hunnish Invasion--The Roman Empire Perishing--Its Conversion--An Eastern Empire--Increasing Power of the Church--Charlemagne--France and Germany Separated--Feudal System

Source of Weakness in the Empire--The Great Interregnum--The Nibelungen Lied--The Hanseatic League--The Guilds--Meistersingers

A Protestant Germany--A Divided Protestantism--True Meaning of the Struggle--Unfruitful Waiting--The Renaissance--Music, Art, Letters, Born Anew--Thought Awakened--Copernicus--Galileo--Kepler--Impending Calamity--Protestant Union and Catholic League--Thirty Years' War Commenced--Wallenstein--Gustavus Adolphus--His Triumph and Death--Richelieu--Death of Wallenstein--Peace of Westphalia--Division of Territory

The Beginnings of the Storm--The United States of America and France--The Thought-Currents Which Moved toward a Vortex--Execution of King and Queen--France a Ruin but Free--A Republic--First Coalition--Poland and its Partition--Austria Fighting Alone for the Empire--Napoleon Bonaparte in Italy--His Methods and Their Result--Treaty of Campo Formio--Three New Republics--Napoleon in Egypt--His Return--Second Coalition--Dominions of Ecclesiastical Rulers Given Away--Napoleon the Instrument of Fate

King William and Bismarck--Schleswig-Holstein--Proposed Division--War against Austria--K?niggr?tz--The North German Union

A SHORT HISTORY OF GERMANY.

Foundation building is neither picturesque nor especially interesting, but it is indispensable. However fair the structure is to be, one must first lay the rough-hewn stones upon which it is to rest. It would be much pleasanter in this sketch to display at once the minarets and towers and stained-glass windows; but that can only be done when one's castle is in Spain.

Would we comprehend the Germany of to-day, we must hold firmly in our minds an epitome of what it has been, and see vividly the devious path of its development through the ages.

The German nation is of ancient lineage, and indeed belongs to the royal line of human descent, the Aryan; its ancestral roots running back until lost in the heart of Asia, in the mists of antiquity.

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