Before you go to Germany: eras, customs, phrases and what is still there

Eras in a line

• Romans and Germanic peoples (50 BC–500)
• The medieval Empire (500–1500)
• Reformation and religious war (1500–1648)
• Prussia, Austria and the old Empire (1648–1806)
• Napoleon and the wars of liberation (1806–1815)
• Restoration and revolution (1815–1871)
• The German Empire (1871–1918)
• The Weimar Republic (1918–1933)
• Nazi dictatorship and war (1933–1945)
• Two German states (1945–1989)
• Peaceful revolution and unity (1989–)