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Germany does not have a perfect history, and hasn’t always had a perfect government, nevertheless, Germany has had a long and colorful history. Germany has its beginnings in the year 843 A.D. Thanks to the Treaty of Verdun, the Carolingian Empire was divided among Charlemagne’s grandsons. This led to the creation of France and Germany. Although Germany was overseen by a monarch, tribe chieftains did most of the work to take care of and defend the country. Germany seemed to be too difficult to handle from an outsider’s point of view. As a result, the chieftains became dukes, and, once the line of Charlemagne ran out in the year 911, one of the dukes became the new king of Germany. At this point in German history, the rulers of various states began to vote for their king. However, like many European countries, Germany eventually came under the rule of the Holy Roman Empire from 962 until the mid-17th century. But, like before, Germany proved too difficult to control, and Germany was split among 300 princes after the Thirty Year’s War. The Germanies, as it was now called, was still a part of the Holy Roman Empire, but it was by name only. After a while, though, the German people grew tired of disunity. Austria and Prussia (the largest powers of the Germanies) fought for control over the Germanies, and Prussia won. Austria pulled out of the Germanies, and until World War II Germany was unified. Germany was then divided until around 1989.

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