Averey's+Notes

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· The weather was normal throught out the year · nice warm summers with cold winters. · Still had rain here and there through out the year. · In July it is 18°C. · The coldest it would reach in the winter would be -15°C in winter. · 35°C in the summer. __**Leaders and events**__
 * __Climate and Geographical Factors__**

5 AD - Pliny reported that Cimbri and Charydes sent ambassadors to Rome. 6 AD - Marcomannic Confederation. 98 AD - Tacitus reports on the Germanic tribes that the Suiones (Swedes) were one nation composed of several tribes (civitates). 167 AD - Marcomannic Confederation, that also includes Quadi, Sarmatians, Suebi, Iazyges and others, crosses the Danube and invades Dacia. Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius eventually defeats them in 180 AD. 400 AD - Thuringian //regna// (loosely translated as kingdom or realm). Thuringii are reputed to have held the territory from the Danube to the Lower Elbe river. This __regna__ was destroyed by the victory of Theuderic I of Austrasia, who in 530 AD defeated the Thuringian king Hermanafrid in the Battle at the Unstrut and killed him at Zülpich.


 * __Transportation and Weaponry__**

The Germanics mostly got around on horses and ox driven carts. Skin tents and wood objects were used to make camps. They also did make ceramics. They made clothing out of animal skins which were processed by using oak tannis. They made their pants out of inside out animal skins because it was good against the cold. The Germanic tribes processed iron. The Germanic warriors wore conic helmets, round shields, and fought with various weapons: double-bladed straight sword, spear, dagger and bow with arrows.

__**Art, Literature and Music**__

The Germanic people were mostly into art over all. They did pottery and stone carvings. The didn’t have the use of a pottery wheel instead they would hand craft their own pottery from clay rock and mud.

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 * __Socio-Political Structure__**

The Germanic tribes worshiped natural phenomena, like storm, thunder, lightening, and all meteorological phenomena were considered manifestations of gods, which were the origin of the good and evil. The deities had their dwellings in thick forests, swift springs, or lagoons. In these places, people deposited offerings in wooden vessel. In many cases, the Germanic women fought together with their men. The Germanics elected a chief depending on his ability as a war leader. They had an warrior aristocracy and the Societal structure was a mobile one.