>>17861688No, by the high Middle Ages the most wealth passed through Italy, Florence alone saw more gold than all of Europe north of alps combined
Germany was the wealthiest region north of the Alps with German Halle schools forming a bedrock of productive gain, something like 50% of the bicycles in Europe were produced in Halle schools.
The Hansa route and the German steel Yard of London saw the greatest movement of wealth in Europe outside of Florence.
England’s economic rise and industrialization actually began when they nationalized the German steel yard of London. Without Germans there is no British empire because there is no British industry.
The Stahlhof, from 1200 to 1500, saw more wealth and material flow through it than the rest of England combined.
- Friedrich List National System of Political economy.
Without German Rhenners in the Kontor of London the Tudors could build the wealth for their successors to invest in America there would never be a Virginia company. America would never have existed.
Those same Rhens also settled primarily in PA and Ohio and Southern New York and produced the most productive sector of American industry that created American steel. They produced more steel than any other country on earth. Iron and Steel is what builds a country. Not cotton, not gold, not land, iron and steel is everything and the Germans are people of iron.
The Iron Kingdom, iron makes steel, steel makes ships, ships make trade, trade makes gold, gold makes the empire.
America owes its existence to Germany as does England.
We Americans at the very least are grateful to Germany and to the Germans who we embrace as spiritual and racial kin.
