Of course, there are many nations that can fight, and the German army is only one of them with less outstanding fighting capacity. However, we can find a problem, whether Xiongnu or Mongolia, they didn't pass on their own culture in the end, or they passed it down badly. But why do Germans still have so much influence? Supposedly, shouldn't these uneducated barbarians have disappeared in the long river of history?

Knowing that the Roman Empire began to fall into chaos in the 3rd century, there were factors of civil war, so it split into the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire. But at the same time, there are also foreign enemies, especially those Germanic tribes who constantly plundered Rome when Western Rome was weakening.

Germanic tribes he refers not to a certain tribe, but to a group of tribes including ostrogoths, Visigoth, Vandal, Lombardy, Su Weihui and so on. But in any case, the western Roman empire was rubbed on the ground by this group of people all day. However, if you rub it for a long time, it will grow into a brain. After all, Germanic tribes were not monolithic, so the Western Roman Empire began to absorb some Germanic people as soldiers, and then United against other tribes.

Then there was a very interesting situation. Some Germans began to get into higher positions in the troops of the western Roman Empire, and Germans were meant to hit people, so the Romans often threw them to the north to defend the frontier. Is this script familiar? Yes, the story of An Lushan in Rome is behind.

In 475 AD, Rome was captured again. In the past, Germans often went to town to have fun, but this time it was not a foreign enemy, but a Roman general named Orestes, who was actually born in Germany. After he occupied Rome, he deposed the western Roman emperor Nibis, but put his son romulus Augustine on the throne. But the next year, another Germanic overthrew Augustine, and then West Rome disappeared.

Then get back to the point. How civilized. Of course, on the one hand, the reason is that two or three hundred years before der untergang in Rome, several long-brained bosses of Germanic tribes have penetrated into the high-level circles in Rome, otherwise there would be no An Lushan in Rome, on the other hand, it is the main reason-religion.

The relationship between Christianity and Rome is quite complicated, but it officially became the state religion of the Western Roman Empire at least in 380 AD. Religion itself is only a tool used by imperial power, so even if Christianity can fool people again, it can only be a good baby before the Roman emperor. But religion can justify itself with a set of logic, which can bring people the feeling of knowing the world, make people feel at ease and kind, promote production cooperation and help to govern the country.

Moreover, Christianity itself has a set of explanations for the world and a huge management system. When Germans first came into contact with Christianity, they were all stupid. This level is much higher than the messy natural gods that Germans believe in. When the Western Roman Empire perished, this kind of Christianity lost the cage of imperial power, and then they began to extricate themselves.

Germans are physically strong, but their brains are not necessarily easy to use. Fooled by Christianity, East and West Goths, Lombardy and Vandals all converted. And as I said before, Germanic tribes have a * * * nature and are extremely obedient. So once the eldest brother of a tribe converted, the whole tribe joined Christianity.

The transformation of the Germans by Christianity is enormous. First of all, the speculative philosophy of Christianity has transformed these people's brains. Later German philosophy had a lot to do with this, and the other was that religion finally taught Germans to read. Even the German script was created by the missionary Urfila, and the earliest German book was the Bible.

After the fall of western Rome, the Germans began to establish their own kingdom. But it is unrealistic for them to manage the country at this level of rule, but Christianity has a whole set of governance means to assist the Germans. In other words, they are fans of blank paper.

Christianity itself lacks military means, and the Germans just act as their protectors, that is, double points. Even military conquest can be used to expand territory and help spread religion. Next place, tell the local people to convert or die. Christianity and Germanic people came together in such an interdependent relationship, and finally completed the unification of Germanic Frankish Kingdom.

Generally speaking, the Germanic barbarians came into contact with Christianity during the period from being absorbed by Rome to resisting the Western Roman Empire. But Christianity is a religion after all, and it is not a complete cultural system like the ancient civilization in China. Therefore, its mutual use with the Germans has given them a basic culture, but it has not changed the spiritual core of German militarism and collectivism. Then the two went hand in hand and laid a large area of land, but it also laid the groundwork for the confrontation between religious forces and kingship.