Do we all agree France was European Middle Ages equivalent of Rome?Literally conquered almost the whole continent.
>>18690073This is great bait.
>>18690073>"French">looks inside>Germanics mostly from modern day Germany and the low countries, with their capital in modern day Germany (Aachen), speaking a West Germanic language, political successor was the HRE aka Germany
>EmpireYou mean paying tribe to MAGYARORSZĂG for half a century till some German boi saved your ass?
>>18690077>>18690085>>18690151Fixed map>>18690151The Ring was sacked, the Khans got baptized and the kingdom Frenchfied.
>>18690073The French were certainly interested in trying to claim the mantle of rome, especially Napoleon with his laurel leaves and eagles and declaring an empire in rome itself. But like all the post roman roman projects it never really worked out for one reason or another.
>>18690073>oftenlytil a new word. unfortunately it's not legit.
>>18690085And originating the national name for Germans. Charlemagne was the first one talking of his German language as the "lingua theodisca" (meaning the "language of the ethnos"). And this "theodisca" (which already under Charlemagne was used to name the language of all the german tribes, not just the Franks) developed into "deutsch" over the centuries. Charlemagne didn't just politically unify the german tribes into one Empire, he also laid the foundation for a common identity.
