Germans of history

When we study history we get into some problems. So Let’s begin with Germany. Germany began its history about 1930 when the German republic was formed. Before hand it was several different groups. The Major one was called Prusse and was expanding slowly thanks to a guy named Otto van Bismark. However, he did not complete the country.

Germany became what it is today thanks to the fall of the USSR. Although the fall happened later, the opening of the Berlin Wall in Germany allowed Germans to cross back and forth in their own traditional lands. So the history of the people of Germany is about 22 years old today.

What? You mean you want the history of the people within Germany? Well, there were several different groups. Today Germany has Arabs, Turks, Polish, and many other cultures in it. It has been this way the entire time.

Do you mean, you want the older history of the people of Germany?

 

This is a picture of Germania in the minds of the Roman people. You will notice that Germany is only a part of the lands being covered.

It gets even weirder than that though. The people of Rome didn’t go much further north than that, so we don’t really know about the further German groups. Then during the fall of Rome, the Germans emmigrated all over europe and taking power where ever they went. The English Kings were Saxons, the Lombardi’s took Italy, and the Rus, well you can guess that.

Basically put, the Germans took over much of Europe.

 

This isn’t the first time this happens either. The Vikings take over lands again in the tenth century. So Europe has a large Germanic ethnic population before we even get into visiting the Americas.

The British Colonies had German and Dutch immigrants. Keep in mind, Germany did not exist yet so much of England viewed them as the same people. Benjamin Franklin wrote of Germans, “Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. I could wish their Numbers were increased. And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? why increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Compexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind.”

The Germans at this time were still the foreigners, even though the English colonists were descendants of Saxons. This immigration continued throughout the history of the United States. The Scandinavians came into Minnesota and the Northern Midwest without much notice.

It goes further than that, Germans migrated everywhere there was a colony to be found. They were on naval vessels for every country, and therefore helped build the colonies they would live in. Yet no one really noticed this.

The term Yankee goes to a family named Jahnke. The English pronounced it and then spelled it how they said it.

Then we have World War I, and World War II. I don’t mean to bring up Hitler’s Kampf at all. I want to point out that in those wars, it was Germans fighting other Germans in many of the battles.

The American revolution had something similar. The British forces had the British Saxons, and then hired mercenaries from Hessia which is near Denmark. The American side had German and Dutch immigrants, and then French Soldiers, many of whom did not speak English but a form of Germanic speech common to the lower peoples. The upper rulers spoke French was all.

Argentina had Germans, and so did much of South America. Africa had several different groups that were Germanic colonists. The Dutch East Indies and other trading groups spread language and ideals throughout the world.

This leads me to point out that there are several people from Polynesian cultures that have heritage to German and Dutch travelers. In other words, while no one was noticing the Germans globalized.

This is just one culture, one ethnic group that spread throughout the world. There are hundreds of them doing the exact same thing. We don’t notice them because they fall under “lower” groups, or don’t follow their own national ideals. They adapt to their new culture and keep parts of the old one as well. So we have a huge sense of diversity from ethnic groups that most people are simply not watching. In fact, it gets even odder. Some of these groups have had entire Empires, and because they were based on movement instead of traditional civilization systems, no one remarked about it.

My studies on the matter will be covering two distinct groups. The first is the Pacific and Native American Cultures and how Lip Pointing, Sweet Potatoes, and other traditions came to spread among them. The other is the Eurasian tribal groups like the Mongol Empire, and the Germanic/Viking hordes that seemed to be ignored even though they had trading relations over one of the largest continents in the entire world.

First things first though, we need a name for this civilization that we have ignored. I call it the Other Civilization, for two reasons. The first is that Other tends to be the term for people that fall into the foreign and unknown. The mystical other is something that has been used to describe many of the groups throughout history. The second reason is with a simple honesty, when talking about these two different civilizations the people involved will often say, “No, no, the Other Civilization... the one that travelled.”