Saxony (Ninety-Five Theses Map Game)

The Electorate of Saxony (German: Kurfürstentum Sachsen) is a central German state in the Holy Roman Empire.

History
The history of Saxony relates the exploits from the early Saxon people in northern Germany in antiquity to the modern Electorate of Saxony in central Germany. In this period, Saxony has been a key nation in central Europe.

Antiquity-1356
The early Saxons were first recorded by the Romans in the 2nd century. By the 3rd and 4th centuries, the Saxons (along with other Germanic tribes) were organized into petty chiefdoms; the Saxons dominated from the Rhine in the northwest to the Elbe in the southeast. In the 8th century, the Saxons clashed heavily with the Franks and resisted Christian conversion until conquest by Charlemagne.

From 804, Saxony was a stem duchy of East Francia; it would provide many of the first powerful German kings after the fall of the Carolignian dynasty. The next few centuries were spent conquering Slavic neighbors and Christianizing most of Germany. In 1296, Saxony was split up into many different holdings. The Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg was ruled by the Ascanian line, which would received electoral dignity with the Golden Bull of 1356.

1356-1517
The Ascanian line went extinct in 1422, after many years of playing a substantial role in Imperial politics as the Archmarshal and an electoral state. The Emperor bestowed the principality upon Frederick I of the Wettin line, who was also the ruler of Meissen and Thuringia. Frederick I was succeeded by his son, Frederick II. Frederick II's death, however, brought about a division of the realm in the Treaty of Leipzig in 1485 by sons Ernest (of the Ernestine branch, which maintained the electoral dignity) and Albert (of the Albertine branch).

Government
The Electorate of Saxony is a member of the Holy Roman Empire, a federation of German feudal states.

The coat of Arms has the coat of arms of the house of Wettin and that of the Arch-Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire.

There are four sub-divisions of Saxony:
 * Duchy of Saxony
 * Duchy of Anhalt
 * Margraviate of Meissen
 * Landgraviate of Thuringia

Economy
Via Regia (including city of Erfurt) meets Via Imperii (cities of Wittenberg, Zwickau) at Leipzig

Leipzig Trade Fair

Ore Mountains of Saxony

Culture
Lucas Cranach is a famous painter

University of Wittenberg, Leipzig University, and Erfurt University

To Do

 * Academic freedom
 * Auction houses