The history of this country is complex and contradictory. Due to the fact that Germany experienced many periods of fragmentation and reunification, its history is inseparable from the history of its neighbors. In the prehistoric period, the ancestors of the Germans lived in the northern part of the country, then they began to move gradually to the south.

In the feudal times, Germany's fragmentation grew, acquiring ever larger proportions, and reached its peak by the 13th century. Despite this, the country was booming economically: all sorts of crafts flourished, commodity-money relations penetrated agriculture, capitalism was born. The Sevrogerman cities united in the Hanseatic League and began to actively trade with England, Flanders and Novgorod, and the South German ones gravitated towards the Mediterranean, to Venice.

17th-19th centuries, the first centralized manufactories arose in Germany, and the most developed became the Rhineland, which belonged to Prussia and Saxony. As a result of the wars in Germany, new, rich in natural resources, land. Technologies were improved, new remarkable mechanisms appeared, new industries arose. In 1888, the emperor of Germany became Wilhelm II, a period of wide expansion and militarism began. Germany began to build a powerful fleet to end the British supremacy at sea.

The 20th century became the most dramatic in Germany's history, perhaps . In 1914, Germany unleashed the First World War, which ended for the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary , Italy) defeat . And further - monstrous inflation, fascism, the abolition of the basic political freedoms, the emigration of the best of its citizens ... And - the beginning of the most terrible in the history of mankind of the Second World War, also at the initiative of Germany . And again defeat, again economic and political problems . In 1949 two German states were created - capitalist and socialist . In such tattered form the country lived until 1989, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the unification of the German people .

Impossible by one articles convey all the nuances of the history of this country. Many books and monographs have been written on this subject. Dramatic and edifying history of Germany.

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Ancient and modern in Berlin

Dresden was completely restored after the Second World