German Empire (Non Lente)

The German Empire(837 A.D-1495) was a leading power in Europe during the Middle Ages, controlling an area from the borders of France to Russia. It was the leading technological power for 400 years, before the British surpassed them. The empire would see it's fall thanks to over-expansion, the unification of Great Britain and it's policies after, and a growing hatred of the monarchs within the common man.

837-900 A.D: Unification and Growth
In the year of 837 A.D, the Duchy of Berlin had defeated the Duchy of Bonn in a year-long siege. It declared itself the German Empire, and declared the Duke of Berlin, Kristopyf IV, the first emperor. It immediatly began attacking other duchies in Austria and Poland, because the only other state that had unified by now was the Kingdom of France, which had been doing the same thing with no rivals in the way. As tensions heightened between the two, France invaded the Swiss Duchies, allies of Germany. In return, Germany invaded the Dutch Duchies, allies of France. The two nations wrote up the Treaty of Munich, which allowed them to keep the territory they had just taken. This led to the Duchy Rebellion, which was an uprising against France and Germany led by the former dukes.

It was quickly supressed by the two, who had allied together to quell the rebellion, but things went back to rivalry quickly, as Germany began raids of French colonists in England, in cojunction with native tribes. This led to the German-French War, where Germany obtained the French settlement in England, and a few territories on the outskirts of France. This led to the view that Germany was now the main power in Western Europe, but this title quickly went away after the embrassing German-Italic War, where the recently unified Kingdom of Italy fended of Germany's main invasion forces, suffering no more then 50 troops in a army of 5,000, while Germany lost half of it's 20,000 Army.

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