THE

EVOLUTION OF AN EMPIRE


A BRIEF HISTORICAL SKETCH OF

GERMANY



BY

MARY PARMELE




SECOND EDITION




NEW YORK
WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON,
59 FIFTH AVENUE
1893.




COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY
PARMELE & CHAFFEE.



Press of J. J. Little & Co.
Astor Place, New York




CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Indo-European Migrations—Divisions of the Aryan Family into EuropeanRaces—Laying the Foundations of the German Empire


CHAPTER II.

Hermann—Subdivisions of the Teutonic Race


CHAPTER III.

Ulfila—Migrations of Teutonic Races—Fall of Rome beforeAlaric—Hunnish Invasion—Modern Europe foreshadowed


CHAPTER IV.

Anglo-Saxon Occupation of Britain


CHAPTER V.

Teuton Occupation of Gaul—Final Severing of Connection with RomanEmpire—Clovis, King of France—Merovingian Kings—Pippin—Beginning ofCarlovingian Line


CHAPTER VI.

Charlemagne—Separation of France and Germany—Growth of SpiritualPower—Conflict between Pope Gregory VII. and Henry IV.—EntireSupremacy of the Church


CHAPTER VII.

Europe in the Hands of Three Men—Charles V., Francis I., and HenryVIII.—Indulgences sold by Leo X.—Birth of Protestantism


CHAPTER VIII.

Thirty Years' War—Decay of the German Empire


CHAPTER IX.

Napoleon Bonaparte—German Empire Extinct—Waterloo—German Statesconfederated, with Austria at the Head


CHAPTER X.

Schleswig-Holstein—Bismarck—War with Austria—Königgrätz


CHAPTER X
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