Die Geschichte der Deutschen - The history of the Germans
5000-4000 BC: Coming from the Caucasus mountains over Southern Russia, the western branch of the Indo-Germanics/ Indo-Euroepans conquer Europe. Later on they will split up in different tribes: Germanics, Celts, Slavs, Romanics, Greeks, Illyrians, Thracians, Baltics and another branch will settle down in the Middle East and India.
2000 BC: Germanics, Slavs, Romans and Celts all share similar cultures. They have similar gods, languages and symbols. But soon they developed disctinct cultures.
1000 BC: The Germanics are now their own distinct ethnicity. They live in Southern Scandinavia and Northern Germany and slowly expand southwards. Greek and Roman writers were the first to use the word "Germanen", which was actually the name of a rather small tribe at the border to the Roman Empire. One theory states, that the meaning is: Ger = spear, Mann = man, the Men with spears.
They have a natural religion and
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