Hey dear Hive Community, first of all I would like to welcome you all to my new post and hope you are all well and your day was full of positive experiences! Today I would like to discuss an interesting historical topic and hope you can expand your knowledge a little.
Here are some pictures that should bring Switzerland a little closer and I created them with the help of artificial intelligence. Of course, the beauty of Switzerland on the AI generated works of art does not come across as well as in real life, but I think it is a good way to explain the topic for the purpose of education. Switzerland looks back on an interesting history and already in prehistoric times people lived there and during the Iron Age the Celts settled there and then it was conquered by warlike conflicts and get part of the Roman Empire and at that time it happened that the Romans anchored their culture there. The society was more and more romanticized and it later also happened that the Burgundians settled more and more the country that came from today's France and also the Alemanni found their place in some parts and it came to the fact that the language has mixed and to this day, Switzerland is one of the most diverse countries through the four main languages Italian, French, Rhaeto-Romance and German when it comes to linguistic diversity. In 401 after Christ, the rule of the Romans in Switzerland ended and the Burgundians and Alemanni came to the main disadvantages and almost 400 years this rule was to last until it was conquered by the Franks and at that time the best-known influencers were the Carolingian and Merovingian dynasty and the country split and a few decades later Switzerland became part of the Habsburg Empire. It was then the Habsburgs who ensured that the different cantons formed and more diplomacy ruled in their own ranks and this strategic leadership ensured the different camps joined together more and more to make common pacts.
For the Habsburgs, Switzerland was then an important center for trade routes and the headquarters of the family was probably located in the canton of Aargau at that time and this association was then called the confederation and took place in the 13th century and it happened in the following years that more and more joined this cooperative and Switzerland became more sovereign and separated more from the empire of the Habsburgs. From the 15th century, Switzerland managed to become more and more powerful and rise to a country of enormous size and not everyone was enthusiastic about it and there was a war between France and Switzerland which was won by the French at the time and it came to the fact that the confederation was increasingly restricted. Switzerland is still known for keeping out of wars and this was already the case during the time of the 30 Years War and during the French Revolution there were many internal unrest within Switzerland and the then ruler Napoleon took the opportunity to occupy Switzerland at that time and the citizens became more and more divided and had enough of the constant changes of power. This even ensured that in the middle of the 19th century came to a civil war and in 1848, Switzerland as it is known today developed from various alliances into its own state with liberal ideas. At that time, the mills were also important for the structure and in the past I have already written a post about it and everyone who would like to learn more about the topic, here is my contribution where I have already gone into more detail.
Thanks for taking the time to read through my post and I hope you like it and can learn something new about this topic!