I know that this has been brought up numerous times before, but I figured that perhaps Augustus would have perhaps employed someone more competent than the glorified tax-farmer Varus in 7 C.E. Magna Germania remains a Roman province for about century longer before civil strife, like which followed after the death of Nero, encourages the Germanics into breaking away from Roman rule. I mean even before Teutoburg, it seems that they weren't under full control, they were more vassals than anything else. After order is restored, the Romano-Germans manage to convince the Romans that they willing to remain allies, and even continue to supply them with warriors.
By this time, they're already been culturally assimilated by the Romans, and a good number of their noble class are even literate, given that as former subjects of Rome, it was common practice to send their children as hostages to the Imperial Court, where they recieved a fine education, and by now they had acquired a taste in literature and all things that go with it. Their society makes a steady transition from tribal to feudal. And perhaps by then, their native religion takes on a new sophistication.
By the time of the Christianization and decline of the Roman Empire in the west, and even with the adoption of those Germanics that had adopted Arianism and begin carving out kingdoms as they moved westward, the tribes that remained in Germania retained the advanced form of their native culture form a seperate civilized group in Europe, so Christianity is at least confined to Italy, Spain, and maybe as far a France.
The Byzantines have their Emperor and Patriarch, western Europeans have their Pope, the Muslims have their Caliphs, and the Germanics and Scandinavians have their Kings and priests. And a Germanic/ Norse cultural bloc stretching as far as the British Isles to Russia exists.
By this time, they're already been culturally assimilated by the Romans, and a good number of their noble class are even literate, given that as former subjects of Rome, it was common practice to send their children as hostages to the Imperial Court, where they recieved a fine education, and by now they had acquired a taste in literature and all things that go with it. Their society makes a steady transition from tribal to feudal. And perhaps by then, their native religion takes on a new sophistication.
By the time of the Christianization and decline of the Roman Empire in the west, and even with the adoption of those Germanics that had adopted Arianism and begin carving out kingdoms as they moved westward, the tribes that remained in Germania retained the advanced form of their native culture form a seperate civilized group in Europe, so Christianity is at least confined to Italy, Spain, and maybe as far a France.
The Byzantines have their Emperor and Patriarch, western Europeans have their Pope, the Muslims have their Caliphs, and the Germanics and Scandinavians have their Kings and priests. And a Germanic/ Norse cultural bloc stretching as far as the British Isles to Russia exists.