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About 2,000 years ago, the powerful Roman Empire established a boundary at the northern edge of its territory: the Lower German Limes, which stretched across the Rhine River in present-day Germany and ...

1521-56: Charles V of Hapsburg’s efforts to restore European unity are thwarted by France, the Protestant German princes, and the Turks. c.1535-1675: Burgher class emerges during German Renaissance.