Rome's Role In Germany

Germania, as Rome used to call the territory that expands from today’s low Germany up to Switzerland and Alsace, was land of the emperor’s bodyguard in the 1st century. The personal bodyguard contained 5 centuries, 500 soldiers, to protect the emperor. They had a reputation for being loyal and courageous, and were chosen by the emperor August due to their physical prowess. Today the territory of Germania in comparison to today’s Germany is much bigger, but less rich in history. Since the times of the Roman Empire, Germany had been through a number of internal changes. After the Holly Roman Empire, the territory became various independent states until their reunification in 1871, founding the German Empire. After WWI, the German Empire dissolved

Germany was a key character in the creation of the European Union in 1993 and the Euro currency in 1999. Since the founding of the EU, the country had assume a role of leader in the economy. Today, Germany is the strongest economy in Europe and plays a major role in keeping the Euro currency stable. The country is a major contributor to the central bank but has been affected by Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal’s debts. Germany is today the fourth major economy in the world behind Japan and as well is fourth ranked in the world as importer and exporter country. The German territory is strategically located in the middle of northern Europe, which gives advantageous proximity to the Baltic Sea and North Sea making Germany a naval power. The republic shares borders with France, Belgium, Luxemburg and Netherlands in the west, Denmark in the north, Poland and the Czech Republic in the east, and Austria and Switzerland in the south. Due to its location in the north, the country’s average temperature is cool and cloudy, during the year the weather is wet but foehn, warm mountain wind, can be present

They count a variety of ethnicities in the country such as German which make 91.5% of the population, Turkish which is 2.4%, and the remaining 6.1% is mostly made of Greek, Russian, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, Polish and Spanish ethnicities. There is only one official national language which is German. Under the German law, Danish, Frisian, Sorbian and Romany are recognized as official minority languages. In addition, since, Germany is a member of the Council of Europe, they have adopted the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, which recognizes Low German, North Frisian, Sater Frisian, Lower Sorbian, and Upper Sorbian as minority languages. Migration in the nation has brought diversity and segmentation among people as well due to the recent incidents in the streets of Germany, due to the vast number of incoming migrants. Segmentation is no surprise in the nation; they have gone through changes in the German identity. For example, during the renaissance, the Catholic Church imposed a fee to be able to confess and so created critics among people because of the idea that the rich ‘would go to heaven’ and the poor couldn’t afford his entrance to heaven. In Germany, there was a monk that stood up against the Catholic Church and founded an alternative to believers, the Protestantism. Since then, Protestantism gained popularity among