>>512120476The genetic Germanics never established themselves outside of Europe until the colonial era. And the primary language spoken on the European forest steppes was Slavic. The eastern Germanic languages were the first to die out and get replaced because they were stretched too thin over too massive an area. The steppe meme is actually just a meme. It was the Slavs (genetic and speakers) that got slammed by the mongoloids (actual mongoloids not Finns) and it was actually the Goths and Franks that expelled them from western Europe. Almost all of the medieval European kingdoms were ruled by or influenced from the Germanic Scandinavians that conquered Rome. Rome was sacked by Germanics no less than 5 times.
Earliest organization into an actual independent or united nation state with record keeping:
Spain - Germanics post Roman
France - Germanics post Roman
Rus - Germanics, the first founders were literal cultural/linguistic Norse with Finnish, Slavic and Germanic haplogroups
Germany/central Europe (includes parts of Bohemia, Austria, Switzerland, low countries, France) - Germanics, cultural/linguistic and genetic
England - Germanics
Italian kingdoms post Roman - Germanics, large areas of northern Italy mostly spoke Germanic for some centuries
This was literally an area that covered about half of continental Europe.
Modern technology, philosophy, science, and innovative inventions largely emerged from northern Europe, especially Germanic speaking countries.