Germany

By Diana Sansyzbaeva
 Geography
Mountain region

Climate is ok for farming (grew crops)

Rhine river

Build houses churches along the rivers

 Ethnicity
Mixture of germanic tribes, goths, vandals

Expanded throughout Europe

Mixed with anglo saxons

Merovingian Dynasty
Ruled by Merovingian family

From about 500 A.D. to 800 A.D.

Appeared in France

Catholicism

Named after Merovich

Carolingian family came

 Carolingian dynasty
Also called Pippin dynasty

Ruled by Carolingian family

Charles Martel (two sons Carloman, Pippin III)

Charlemagne the son of Pippin III

Louis I was the last one to rule

Three sons : Charles II, Louis II, Lothar Divided

Treaty of Verdun

Land divided by three

Germany - Louis II
France - Charles II
Lotharingie - Lothar
The First German state
The Eastern Kingdom

Louis

Established schools, churches

Language

Danes and Magyars weakened

Germany
The First German state
Louis IV the last Carolingian king

The power was divided between Dukes

Conrad

Henry I

Otto
The First German state
Holy Roman Empire of Germany

The Great Interregnum period

Golden Bull constitution

Development of manufacture in trade

Hanseatic league
Famous people
 466 -5 11 (Life span)
Clovis
url
url Merovingian dynasty

First Frank king

United Frankish tribes

Supported the spread of christianity

Lead Franks against Visigoths

688 - 741 (Lifespan)

Was known as Charles the Hammer Charles Martel

Mayor of Austrasia (the eastern frankish
kingdom)

Son of Peppin II

Restored Frankish power in Gaul, defeated

saxons

Stopped Islamic invention of Umayyad

caliphate at the battle of Tours

Made attempts to unite church and the

franks
Also known as Charles the great

742 - 814 (lifespan) Charlemagne

A king of Franks

Started the holy roman empire

Martel’s grandson

800 became an emperor

Expanded the Frankish empire

Conquered saxons territories and Bavaria

Made a lot of economic reforms

Established schools
912 - 973 (lifespan) Otto the Great
Duke of the saxons

950 Defeated the Magyars (islamic) in the battle

lechfield

Established the alliance with church

Gave land to Bishops, instead they provided him with

military service

Created the rule that Pope could not be elected

without emperor’s approval

Many thought of him as one of the greatest saxon’s

rulers
Noble families lived in castles

Peasants lived in one room wooden huts

Society
food : bread, vegetables, bear, wine

Eating meat cheese and eggs was only for special events

Peasant were not allowed to hunt on lord’s land

Early marriages

Few people went to school

Children learned from parents

Wealthy children were taught by students

First schools and universities appeared in churches

Feudalism
Economy
Large land owners gave farm land to peasants

Lordvessel relationship between two warriors

Exchange of military services for land

Land tenure another element of feudal relations

Kings as the largest landowners support their nobles by giving them an astate

German nobeles gathered in a meeting called “reichstag”

Same meeting but in a land called “landtag”

King - the king, main owner, gave his power to his descendants

Bishop - top church leader

Baron - maintained the army that served for king, payed king a texes

Lord - small manors, knights, called to serve for the Barons.

Peasants - most of them were like slaves, worked on lords lands, some could
have own business.
Modern Times
Now
90% German 2% Turkish 6% Greek Russian Italian Polish Spanish descendants

Official language German

Other languages is Sarabian, Frisian, Danish, Turkish

Christianity

Popular food pork, bratwurst, cabbage, potatoes, onion jam, beer

Contribution to music Bach, Mozart, Beethoven

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