Where do the Germans come from?

In the fifth century, the ethnic migration separated the Germans, who became today's Norwegians, Swedes, Icelanders, Danes, Anglo-Saxons (English), Dutch, Luxemburg, Germans, Austrian, Frisian, Belgian Flemish, Swiss Germans and immigrants from Canada, the United States, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. Now many of these new ethnic groups are with other ethnic groups.

Germanic people (Latin: Germani, German: Germanen) are the general names of some ethnic groups (tribal societies) with similar languages, cultures and customs. These ethnic groups lived in northwest Europe from 2000 BC to the 4th century AD.

The earliest written record about the Germans is the travel notes of the ancient Greek writer Pythias. Tacitus, the Roman, said that the Celts called the people east of the Rhine "Germans", and Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator, also mentioned the Germans in the Battle of Gaul.

Scandinavia in southern Sweden and western Norway is considered to be the hometown of Germans. Later, it moved to southern Europe. During the Roman Empire, it moved south to northern Germany, split into several tribes, and drove away the Celts living on the vast plains in the northern Alps.

After the demise of the Western Roman Empire, many countries were established on its ruins, and natural science knowledge and experience from ancient Greece and Rome were absorbed, inherited and carried forward in the process of development. Christianity, legalized and reformed in Rome (from Judaism), rose rapidly before13rd century.

In Caesar's time, Germans wore very little, often just a piece of animal skin, and men and women bathed in the river. The diet is mostly dairy products and meat, and they don't put too much energy into agriculture, and the land is redistributed every year.

The Germanic settlements are quite small. Archaeologists can infer that there are generally about 200 residents in their settlements through the investigation of their cemeteries. There is no systematic plan for these settlements: if a Germanic settled in one place, others would move in. Until today, in Germany and other Germanic cultural areas, you can still see this kind of village composed of many small villages gathered together.

Archaeologists learned through archaeological excavations that Germanic houses were wooden houses. Because the wood has already rotted, we can only examine their construction methods through the holes in the pillars they left on the foundation. The most common Germanic houses are rectangular. People and animals live in the same room, separated only by a wall.

There are no other walls in the house. There's a ignition point inside. A hole in the house is used for smoking. Germanic houses have no windows.