Germany


Germany is one of the 20 most populous nations in the world.	Sapience Home Site map About Sapience Sociology Peoples Nations Links to other Sites CIA World Factbook - Germany Wikipedia - Germany
History The prehistory and antiquity of Germany are obscure. Germany seems to have originated in classical and medieval times, and has become important in modern times. Its future has not yet been well examined.
Other Sociology The investigation of Germany requires connection with other peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change. Other peoples of the world Other nations can be connected. Ghana, Yemen, Taiwan, Romania, Mozambique Sri Lanka, Australia, Madagascar, Syria, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Netherlands, Chile Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Malawi can be considered. It is considered to belong to Western civilization along with nations such as Venezuela. Balkan and Scandinavian peoples can also be connected. It is more specifically associated with the germanic peoples. There are connections with anglic peoples such as those of Canada. British peoples such as those of the United Kingdom can be connected. Anglo-American peoples including the United States can be connected. Latin peoples such as those of Peru can be connected. French peoples such as those of France are closely connected. Italic peoples such as those of Italy can be connected. Hispanic peoples such as those of Spain can be connected. Hispanic Argentine American peoples such as those of Argentina can be connected. Hispanic Mexican American peoples such as those of Mexico can be connected. Hispanic Colombian American peoples including those of Colombia can be connected. Lusitanic peoples such as those of Brazil can be considered. Northeast European peoples such as those of Poland can be connected. Russia can be connected. Ukraine can be connected. Likewise, there are connections with Asiatic peoples such as those of North Korea. These include Middle Eastern peoples such as those of Saudi Arabia. Egypt can be connected. Turkey can be connected. North African peoples such as those of Morocco can be connected. Algeria can be connected. Mesopotamian peoples such as those of Iraq can be connected. Persian peoples including those of Afghanistan can be connected. Iran can be connected. There are possible connections with South Asian peoples such as those of Nepal. India can be connected. Pakistan can be connected. Bangaldesh can be connected. There are some connections with Oriental peoples including South Korea. China can be connected. Japan can be connected. There are some connections with Southeast Asian peoples such as Malaysia. Peoples of Mainland Southeast Asia including Burma can be connected. Vietnam can be connected. Thailand can be connected. Peoples of the Southeast Asian Archipelagoes including the Philippines can be connected. Indonesia can be connected. There are some connections with Central Asian peoples including those in parts of China and in Uzbekistan. There are also connections to African peoples such as those of Uganda. East African peoples such as those of Kenya can be considered. Northern East African peoples including those of Ethiopia can be connected. Central East African people such as those of Tanzania can be connected. Interior East African peoples including those of Sudan can be connected. West African peoples such as those of Nigeria can be connected. Central African peoples such as those of Congo (DR) can be connected. Southern African peoples including those of South Africa can be connected. American Indian peoples such as those found in Venezuela seem to be less directly connected. South American Indian peoples such as those of Peru can be considered. Amazonian peoples including those of Argentina can be connected. Brazil can be connected. Andean peoples including those of Argentina can be connected. Colombia can be connected. Cono/Southern American Indian peoples such as those of Argentina can be connected. Middle American Indian peoples such as those of Mexico can be connected. Southwestern American Indian peoples such as those of the southwestern United States can be connected. North American Indian peoples such as those of Canada can be considered. Eastern North American Indian peoples such as those of the eastern United States and Western North American Indian people such as those of the western United States can be connected. Communities Major cities and other important communities are not yet listed. Social structure and change Social change Particular changes including the agricultural revolution can be considered. The Agrarian revolution including bronze age movements, early iron age movements, late iron age movements, and modernization can be connected. The industrial revolution including the early industrial revolution, middle industrial revolution, and late industrial revolution can be connected. Social change processes such as innovation, transmission, and extinction can be considered. Social change factors such as institutional change, cultural change, demographic change, and natural change can be connected. Social types may have included hunting and gathering peoples in the distant past, but horticultural types are better known. Industrial society including late industrial society, middle industrial society, and early industrial society can be considered. Agrarian societies can be connected. Social structure including anthropological structure, cultural structure, institutional structure, class structure, and regional and community structure will be considered in more detail as these topics are better developed.
Institutions Religion Germany has had a complex religious tradition. It was converted to Abrahamic religion, principally Christianity but including Judaism as a minority and Islam as a smaller minority. Christianity including old Christianity, Catholicism, Protestanism, Orthodoxy, and Mormonism can be connected. It has become largely secular. It was originally pagan. Asiatic religion has not been highly important. Religious organization can be connected. Religious practice can be connected. Religious beliefs can be connected. Government Particular governments including national government, and local government can be connected. International government including traditional empires, colonial empires, and modern compacts can be connected. Government activity including state relations, administration, and succession can be connected. Government structure including government form, heads of state, executive systems, legislative systems, and judicial systems can be connected. Law including international law, Western law, Asiatic law, and tribal law can be connected. Economics including activities, industry, and economic systems is important. Education including research, teaching, cultural institutions, educational organization, and particular schools is important. Families including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families are useful. c. 800 CE Charlemagne crowned as "Holy Roman Emperor" c. 1455 Gutenberg develops a movable-type printing press and publishes the Bible. 1517 Luther's criticism of Catholic practice begins Protestant Reformation. 1799-1815 CE. Napoleon becomes emperor of France and attempts to conquer Europe, but is defeated. Numerous colonies in other parts of the world change posession. c. 1880 Partitioning of Africa c. 1915-1918 CE. World War I, the "Great War" changes the modern world. c. 1930s CE. Great Depression, principally in the United States and Europe. c. 1938 - 1945. World War II. Germany under the rule of Hitler and Japan attempt military conquest of Europe and Asia. England, the United States led by Roosevelt, and Russia (the USSR) under Stalin are the chief opponents and combine to defeat Germany and Japan. c. 1938 - c. 1945 Physicists including Einstein warn the United States government of the possibility that Germany could develop nuclear weaponry. Fermi heads the Manhattan project which demonstrates controlled nuclear fission and develops an atomic bomb. c. 1945 - 1953 Stalin establishes USSR as a major world power, and begins a largely ideological struggle with the United States and allies known as the "Cold War" c. 1960 - 1963. Kennedy is elected US President, and leads the US in various Cold War incidents and conflicts. 1989 "Velvet revolution", comparatively nonviolent collapse of Communist governments in Eastern Europe, symbolized by removal of Berlin wall. 1998 Schroeder is elected Chancellor of Germany. 2002 Schroeder reelected as Chancellor of Germany.
Culture Behavioral culture including customs, occupations, recreation and entertainment, and cultural events can be considered. Conceptual culture including language, graphic arts, literature, mathematics, applied science, and philosophy has been profoundly important. Material culture including industrial technology, building technology, foodstuffs, clothing, transportation technology, communication technoloy, and other artifacts, has been influential. Anthropology Particular groups can be connected. Human geography is principally useful for European geography, but neighboring areas are also important. Germany has an estimated total area of 357,021 km². Human ecology including environmental effects on people, relations with other life, and human effects on the environment can be considered. Physical anthropology including human dispersion, racial variation, and human origins can be connected. Demography including population change, population size and structure, deaths, migration, and births can be connected. Demography including population change, population size and structure, deaths, migration, and births can be connected. Social foundations including social group behavior, social group types, social control, social interactions, and social presentation can be connected. Personal studies Biography will be applicable. Psychology including behavioral fundamentals, mind, behavior patterns. developmental psychology, mental disorders, personality, and social psychology can be connected. The human body including form and appearance, life cycle, disease, body function, and body systems can be connected. Connections with science will be made as the site develops. These include connections to physics, chemistry, astronomy, and more importantly, earth science. Biology including biohistory, ecology, systematics, organism biology, cell biology, and molecular biology can be connected.

Germany is one of the 20 most populous nations in the world.

History

The prehistory and antiquity of Germany are obscure. Germany seems to have originated in classical and medieval times, and has become important in modern times. Its future has not yet been well examined.

Other Sociology

The investigation of Germany requires connection with other peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change.

Other peoples of the world

Other nations can be connected. Ghana, Yemen, Taiwan, Romania, Mozambique Sri Lanka, Australia, Madagascar, Syria, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Netherlands, Chile Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Malawi can be considered.

It is considered to belong to Western civilization along with nations such as Venezuela. Balkan and Scandinavian peoples can also be connected. It is more specifically associated with the germanic peoples. There are connections with anglic peoples such as those of Canada. British peoples such as those of the United Kingdom can be connected. Anglo-American peoples including the United States can be connected. Latin peoples such as those of Peru can be connected. French peoples such as those of France are closely connected. Italic peoples such as those of Italy can be connected. Hispanic peoples such as those of Spain can be connected. Hispanic Argentine American peoples such as those of Argentina can be connected. Hispanic Mexican American peoples such as those of Mexico can be connected. Hispanic Colombian American peoples including those of Colombia can be connected. Lusitanic peoples such as those of Brazil can be considered. Northeast European peoples such as those of Poland can be connected. Russia can be connected. Ukraine can be connected.

Likewise, there are connections with Asiatic peoples such as those of North Korea.

These include Middle Eastern peoples such as those of Saudi Arabia. Egypt can be connected. Turkey can be connected. North African peoples such as those of Morocco can be connected. Algeria can be connected. Mesopotamian peoples such as those of Iraq can be connected. Persian peoples including those of Afghanistan can be connected. Iran can be connected.

There are possible connections with South Asian peoples such as those of Nepal. India can be connected. Pakistan can be connected. Bangaldesh can be connected.

There are some connections with Oriental peoples including South Korea. China can be connected. Japan can be connected.

There are some connections with Southeast Asian peoples such as Malaysia. Peoples of Mainland Southeast Asia including Burma can be connected. Vietnam can be connected. Thailand can be connected. Peoples of the Southeast Asian Archipelagoes including the Philippines can be connected. Indonesia can be connected.

There are some connections with Central Asian peoples including those in parts of China and in Uzbekistan.

There are also connections to African peoples such as those of Uganda.

East African peoples such as those of Kenya can be considered. Northern East African peoples including those of Ethiopia can be connected. Central East African people such as those of Tanzania can be connected. Interior East African peoples including those of Sudan can be connected.

West African peoples such as those of Nigeria can be connected.

Central African peoples such as those of Congo (DR) can be connected.

Southern African peoples including those of South Africa can be connected.

American Indian peoples such as those found in Venezuela seem to be less directly connected. South American Indian peoples such as those of Peru can be considered. Amazonian peoples including those of Argentina can be connected. Brazil can be connected. Andean peoples including those of Argentina can be connected. Colombia can be connected. Cono/Southern American Indian peoples such as those of Argentina can be connected. Middle American Indian peoples such as those of Mexico can be connected. Southwestern American Indian peoples such as those of the southwestern United States can be connected. North American Indian peoples such as those of Canada can be considered. Eastern North American Indian peoples such as those of the eastern United States and Western North American Indian people such as those of the western United States can be connected.

Communities

Major cities and other important communities are not yet listed.

Social structure and change

Social change

Particular changes including the agricultural revolution can be considered. The Agrarian revolution including bronze age movements, early iron age movements, late iron age movements, and modernization can be connected. The industrial revolution including the early industrial revolution, middle industrial revolution, and late industrial revolution can be connected. Social change processes such as innovation, transmission, and extinction can be considered. Social change factors such as institutional change, cultural change, demographic change, and natural change can be connected.

Social types may have included hunting and gathering peoples in the distant past, but horticultural types are better known. Industrial society including late industrial society, middle industrial society, and early industrial society can be considered. Agrarian societies can be connected.

Social structure including anthropological structure, cultural structure, institutional structure, class structure, and regional and community structure will be considered in more detail as these topics are better developed.

Institutions

Religion

Germany has had a complex religious tradition. It was converted to Abrahamic religion, principally Christianity but including Judaism as a minority and Islam as a smaller minority. Christianity including old Christianity, Catholicism, Protestanism, Orthodoxy, and Mormonism can be connected. It has become largely secular. It was originally pagan. Asiatic religion has not been highly important. Religious organization can be connected. Religious practice can be connected. Religious beliefs can be connected.

Government

Particular governments including national government, and local government can be connected. International government including traditional empires, colonial empires, and modern compacts can be connected. Government activity including state relations, administration, and succession can be connected. Government structure including government form, heads of state, executive systems, legislative systems, and judicial systems can be connected. Law including international law, Western law, Asiatic law, and tribal law can be connected.

Economics including activities, industry, and economic systems is important. Education including research, teaching, cultural institutions, educational organization, and particular schools is important. Families including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families are useful.

c. 800 CE Charlemagne crowned as "Holy Roman Emperor"
c. 1455 Gutenberg develops a movable-type printing press and publishes the Bible.
1517 Luther's criticism of Catholic practice begins Protestant Reformation.
1799-1815 CE. Napoleon becomes emperor of France and attempts to conquer Europe, but is defeated. Numerous colonies in other parts of the world change posession.
c. 1880 Partitioning of Africa
c. 1915-1918 CE. World War I, the "Great War" changes the modern world.
c. 1930s CE. Great Depression, principally in the United States and Europe.
c. 1938 - 1945. World War II. Germany under the rule of Hitler and Japan attempt military conquest of Europe and Asia. England, the United States led by Roosevelt, and Russia (the USSR) under Stalin are the chief opponents and combine to defeat Germany and Japan.
c. 1938 - c. 1945 Physicists including Einstein warn the United States government of the possibility that Germany could develop nuclear weaponry. Fermi heads the Manhattan project which demonstrates controlled nuclear fission and develops an atomic bomb.
c. 1945 - 1953 Stalin establishes USSR as a major world power, and begins a largely ideological struggle with the United States and allies known as the "Cold War"
c. 1960 - 1963. Kennedy is elected US President, and leads the US in various Cold War incidents and conflicts.
1989 "Velvet revolution", comparatively nonviolent collapse of Communist governments in Eastern Europe, symbolized by removal of Berlin wall.
1998 Schroeder is elected Chancellor of Germany.
2002 Schroeder reelected as Chancellor of Germany.

Culture

Behavioral culture including customs, occupations, recreation and entertainment, and cultural events can be considered. Conceptual culture including language, graphic arts, literature, mathematics, applied science, and philosophy has been profoundly important. Material culture including industrial technology, building technology, foodstuffs, clothing, transportation technology, communication technoloy, and other artifacts, has been influential.

Anthropology

Particular groups can be connected. Human geography is principally useful for European geography, but neighboring areas are also important. Germany has an estimated total area of 357,021 km². Human ecology including environmental effects on people, relations with other life, and human effects on the environment can be considered. Physical anthropology including human dispersion, racial variation, and human origins can be connected. Demography including population change, population size and structure, deaths, migration, and births can be connected. Demography including population change, population size and structure, deaths, migration, and births can be connected. Social foundations including social group behavior, social group types, social control, social interactions, and social presentation can be connected.

Personal studies

Biography will be applicable. Psychology including behavioral fundamentals, mind, behavior patterns. developmental psychology, mental disorders, personality, and social psychology can be connected. The human body including form and appearance, life cycle, disease, body function, and body systems can be connected.

Connections with science will be made as the site develops. These include connections to physics, chemistry, astronomy, and more importantly, earth science. Biology including biohistory, ecology, systematics, organism biology, cell biology, and molecular biology can be connected.