Germany is one great amazing country and it's got a lot going for it
And although it may be a country that currently is prospering like many nations
It has had one crazy up-and-down history of good moments and bad moments
But where did it all begin?
Well, sit back relax, cuz today we're gonna take you through a condensed version of how Germany came to be. Hey everybody
How's it going - welcome to FTD Facts the channel. We usually just talk about countries and find out facts about them
But today we are doing a brand new series
We're now considering we have a lot of people that like our fact videos on countries
We figured you know
let's dive into the history and let's find out what is really fascinating about how these countries came to be because
Well, they have a lot of history and history is very important to you and very important to me right now
I'm not gonna lie guys when I say this is a condensed version. I mean it's a condensed version
I spent all freaking day actually two days trying to research different
Historical things on Germany and man, we're gonna try to condense it all into one video
It's probably gonna get to part twos because it's just there's so much history with Germany. It's crazy
that being said if you guys do like this video and you guys want to part two to it and learn more about more of
The modern stuff because I probably won't get to it
Be sure to hit those like buttons cuz if we get over 3,000 likes we generally do a part - oh, yeah
and by the way
I don't know if I said it before but
The reason we're doing this is because we've done videos on Germany in the past and I'm gonna put some stuff in the description box
Below you guys can check out as well. But let's get started talking about history. Cool. So Germany a beautiful nation. Yeah
Okay, that was my worst attempt at doing a German accent. I totally understand that but where did this country all begin?
So Germany the word comes from, Germania
Which was a region of the Roman Empire way back in the day dating back to at least the second century
But the thing is about Germany the people that lived in Germania actually date back even further
It's not like the Romans just came and explored the region and said yo, we're gonna set up shop
It was actually kind of the merger of two different cultures now. It is somewhat agreed upon from many different historians that Germanic tribes
and evolved from
Scandinavian tribes from the Nordic Bronze Age which was somewhere around
1700 BC to 500 BC now
It is somewhere around this time that the Germanic tribes and these Scandinavian tribes came a little more down south
Crossing the northern sea and the Baltic Sea and going into what is known as Europe today
Now it was around the fifth century that these particular tribes ended up running into the Roman Empire
Which was heading north to expand its territory
Now this of course led to some very vicious incidents between the tribes and the Romans
They didn't really like each other
Although there were some peaceful interactions as well and some of these tribes were the butabi tribe
Which was located near the Rhine River and of course
Let's not forget the Shirou Shi which was a tribe that was eventually subdued by the Roman forces
But before this Arusha were subdued by the Romans that were actually allies with these guys as well
However, this wasn't until a tribe man named Arnhem
'us split the tribe in two and
Created a rebellion against the Romans now for Arnhem. Is he got to give this guy some credit because although even for a
Germanic tribe men. He actually defeated three Roman legions
this is because for him he was fortunate enough in his younger days to have Roman citizenship and
studied how the Romans fought while being in military service and
For Artemis, he had done his homework and actually beat three Roman legions at the Battle of Teutoburg forest in nine AD
However, unfortunately for this man
He was murdered by rivalries in his own tribe in 21 ad because they thought he was getting too powerful now
Let's jump ahead to the 3rd century AD and talk about the Roman Empire and how it started to fall when this happened a larger
groups had begun to sprout out of West, Germania
These were the Saxons which it is believed that the Shi Russia helped form and became
dissolved into there was also the Franks the Babri the freezie the chatty the Visigoths and the
Ostrogoths and many more and for this time the Roman Empire had actually split in two with the East being the
Byzantines and the West being the West Roman Empire now, it should be known that roughly at this time
Germany pretty much had its own identity and by the fifth century AD
The Frank tribe had grown so much that they established the Frankish Empire
And now at this time Christian and Catholic views came into John and began spreading becoming popular religions within the region as well around
476 ad the area known as the West German Empire in which the Frankish Empire was located had officially been
dissolved by September 4th of that year, but as for the Frankish Empire
Which is what France actually gets its name from was considered one of the largest
post-roman barbarian kingdoms being known as
Francia and of them all the first king was Clovis the first getting crowned on
496 as well. This Empire was the last Germanic kingdoms of the tribal migration period around Europe
but unfortunately for this kingdom it only lasted about
400 years because eventually after the Treaty of Verdun it was split into East and West Francia but as for East Francia
It was ruled by a man named Louis the German who was grandson of Charlemagne who was king of the Franks from October 9
768 to January 28 814 who also became crowned emperor of the newly Holy Roman Empire on
December 25th 800 ad to January 28 814 and this was also known as the Carolingian dynasty
It also should be noted that the Holy Roman Empire which was areas of say East Francia
was the first real kind of country that actually had the word Roman Empire and since many years now until about
911 ad Germany was under the rule of this Carolingian dynasty
Which was all under this new Holy Roman Empire. Now one of the most important things about 911 ad
Is that the kingship for the new Roman Empire actually?
Went to an elective instead of well being born into it and for the first few years the stem duchies
Who are the duchies of the kingdom pretty much elected one of their own, but it wasn't until Otto
The first was officially elected as King on
962 ad
bringing in the Kingdom of Germany, which lasted until
1806 which was the beginning of the
Napoleonic Wars and from there on Germany has gone through many different changes
It seen many wars many prosperous times, but overall the culture of Germany stands true through the sands of time
and of course guys we didn't get through all of it, but that's just a general idea and a very
Condensed version of how Germany actually started. I'm pretty sure I missed some things out there
so feel free to let me know down there in the comment section below if I missed anything and also guys feel free to actually
Hit me up on Instagram
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If you guys want to send me any personal requests for future videos
or you just want to correct me or just add some more facts because like I said guys if we get more than
3000 likes we're gonna do a part two and we're going to go into I guess more of the modern history of Germany and
See how it became today because even in the 20th and 19th century a lot happened. But yeah, my name is Dave Walpole
I'm gonna get out of this video
Oh and actually before you guys leave if you guys really really do like this series
Let us know which other countries you want us to
Kind of go into the history of and see how they formed because I think it's really really cool
So let us know but in that you guys have yourself a good one. Okay. Bye
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So here's some videos on Germany that I was telling you guys
that you guys should check out if you guys like Germany or if you guys are from Germany and want to know more about your
Own country. Feel free to check it out on top of that
We got loads of videos of other countries around the world and we like to educate you guys. So thanks for watching
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