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Below is a really good review of the origin of the Germanic tribes:

 

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Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the history of the ancient civilizations continues with a video on the ancient origin of the Germanic Tribes. This video covers the origin hypothesis, culture, religion, society, economy, and military of the ancient Germanic peoples and their first clashes with Rome - the Cimbrian War and the battle of the Teutoburg Forest

 

 

 

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I notice that the video describes Germanic culture as somewhat similar to the American plains Indians centuries later, albeit with a grittier edge. The tentative connection with horses, the warrior lifestyle, the meritocracy of their chiefs. Different landscape of course. In Germany they've set aside some land to revert to primeval conditions and it really is what Tacitus and Florus describe.

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