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Identifier: worldsinhabitant00bett (find matches)
Title: The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), 1850-1891
Subjects: Civilization Culture
Publisher: London Ward, Lock
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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Lothringen, and has Germany,become unified as a new and more coherent Germanic confederationunder the King of Prussia as Emperor; but a considerable portion ofGermany is excluded from it, being under Austrian rule. It is impossible to understand Germany in its present state withoutreference to the rise of Prussia. Originating in a march or Rise ofmarkland, formed to protect Germany from the Slavonic Wends, Prussia.Prussia has developed out of Brandenburg till at the present day it is B io8 THE INHABITANTS OB EUROPE. the name of two-thirds of the German Empire. For a long time theSlavs were in the ascendant, and the electors of Brandenburg waged afierce struorffle for existence, ending however in complete con-of quest, attended by a power of assimilating with the conquered,Brandenburg, ^j^-^,^ j^g^g given the Prussians their distinctive pecuharities,and has had much influence in making them masters of modern Germany..The greatness of modern Prussia may be dated from the grant of Bran-
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GERMAN CHRISTMAS TREE. denburg, in 1415, by the Emperor Sigismund to his strong supporterFrederick, burgrave of Nuremberg, a prince of the house of Hohenzollem,which for three centuries had been growing in influence and power.How the elector of Brandenburg inherited East Prussia, a fief of thecrown of Poland, how Prussia became independent of Poland, under thegreat elector Frederick William, acquired East Pomerania, Westphalia. i

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  • booksubject:Civilization
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