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THE MAKING OF EUROPE / EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY

From Hutton Webster's, Early European History (1917); edited for this on-line publication, by ELLOPOS

XIX. EUROPEAN NATIONS DURING THE LATER MIDDLE AGES

Em. Macron, Rediscovering the Path to Europe

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Growth of the Nations   * England under William the Conqueror, 1066-1087 A.D., the Norman Kingship   * England under Henry II, 1154-1189 A.D., Royal Justice and the Common Law   * The Great Charter, 1215 A.D.   * Parliament during the Thirteenth Century   * Expansion of England under Edward I, 1272-1307 A.D.   * Unification of France, 987-1328 A.D.   * The Hundred Years' War between England and France, 1337-1453 A.D.   * The Unification of Spain (to 1492 A.D.)   * Austria and the Swiss Confederation, 1273-1499 A.D.   * Expansion of Germany

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BRANDENBURG AND POMERANIA

German expansion began early in the tenth century, when Henry the Fowler annexed Brandenburg between the Elbe and the Oder. Subsequently much of the territory between the Oder and the Vistula, including Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic, came under German control. The Slavic inhabitants were exterminated or reduced to slavery. Their place was taken by thousands of German colonists, who introduced Christianity, built churches and monasteries, cleared the woods, drained the marshes, and founded many cities destined to become centers of German trade and culture.

PRUSSIA

Between the Vistula and the Niemen lay the lands of the Prussians, a non- Teutonic people closely related to the Slavs. The Prussian language and religion have disappeared, the Prussians themselves have been completely absorbed by the Germans who settled in their country, but the Prussian name is borne to-day by one of the great states of modern Europe.

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Cf. The Ancient Greece * The Ancient Rome
Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) * Western Medieval Europe * Renaissance in Italy