Beginning our inquiry into the identity of historic Germany, in this episode we discuss Germania from the pre-historical urnfield culture to the Christianisation of the Goths.
Less urbanised than Gaul, the free peoples of Germania populating modern Germany, Czechia and western Poland, were able to successfully resist Roman conquest and occupation, defeating the Romans at the battle of Teutoburg Forest under the leadership of Arminius. While the Germans were never politically unified, individual tribes such as the Marcomanni invaded the Roman Empire during the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Under the Goths, the East Germans would develop their own distinct culture and adopt Arian Christianity before successfully occupying the Roman Empire during the great migrations.
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