XXI.--THE LUXEMBURG EMPERORS, KARL IV. AND WENZEL. (1347--1410.) 212 XXII.--THE REIGN OF SIGISMUND AND THE HUSSITE WAR. (1410--1437.) 222 XXIII.--THE FOUNDATION OF THE HAPSBURG DYNASTY. (1438--1493.) 235 XXIV.--GERMANY, DURING THE REIGN OF MAXIMILIAN I. (1493--1519.) 246 XXV.--THE REFORMATION. (1517--1546.) 255 XXVI.--FROM LUTHER'S DEATH TO THE END OF THE 16TH CENTURY. (1546--1600.) 273 XXVII.--BEGINNING OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR. (1600--1625.) 284 XXVIII.--TILLY, WALLENSTEIN AND GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS. (1625--1634.) 295 XXIX.--END OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR. (1634--1648.) 309 XXX.--GERMANY, TO THE PEACE OF RYSWICK. (1648--1697.) 320 XXXI.--The war of the Spanish succession. (1697--1714.) 331 XXXII.--THE RISE OF PRUSSIA. (1714--1740.) 338 XXXIII.--THE REIGN OF FREDERICK THE GREAT. (1740--1786.) 347 XXXIV.--GERMANY UNDER MARIA THERESA AND JOSEPH II. (1740--1790.) 369 XXXV.--FROM THE DEATH OF JOSEPH II. TO THE END OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE. (1790--1806.) 377 XXXVI.--GERMANY UNDER NAPOLEON. (1806--1814.) 392 XXXVII.--FROM THE LIBERATION OF GERMANY TO THE YEAR 1848. (1814--1848.) 409 XXXVIII.--THE REVOLUTION OF 1848 AND ITS RESULTS. (1848--1861.) 420 XXXIX.--THE STRUGGLE WITH AUSTRIA; THE NORTH-GERMAN UNION. (1861--1870.) 429 XL.--THE WAR WITH FRANCE, AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE. (1870--1871.) 437 XLI.--THE NEW GERMAN EMPIRE. (1871--1893.) 449 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF GERMAN HISTORY. 462 LIST OF MAPS. PAGE Germany under the Cæsars 11 The Migrations of the Races, A. D. 500 64 Empire of Charlemagne, with the Partition of the Treaty of Verdun, A. D. 843 107 Germany under the Saxons and Frank Emperors, Twelfth Century 139 Germany under Napoleon, 1812 401 Metz and Vicinity 441 The German Empire, 1871 446 A HISTORY OF GERMANY. CHAPTER I. THE ANCIENT GERMANS AND THEIR COUNTRY. (330 B. C.--70 B. C.)