User talk:Marinus18

I don´t know if I am picky or not, but I think I have to say this, even if I don´t know you in real life anyway. But it is what we humans do, arguing over the internet. I think you might appreciate something about history, so I will put it here anyway. It is partly a reaction to your comment on the wonders page : I think putting it for the Teutons wouldn't make sense either as they never operated anywhere near the rhineland. I think though that Germany.

The thing that bothers me on this site is how people view on the historical base for the faction Teutons on the wiki. Teutons was a term which was used in the middle ages by the english( and maybe others as well) to refer to the citizens of the holy roman empire, but it also sometimes refers to the teutonic order. However the name used in AoE probably refers to the people of the HRE as those people can be described as a civ and order does not fit the bill to be a civelization. Another fun fact is that if you translate teutonic order to german, you will get Deutscher Orden. Where Deutscher means German in German. Because Germany did not exist in its current form, it might be better to say that German here refers to what is now called sometimes called Germanic, but even that could be disamibiguous. So the Teutonic order could just be called the Germanic Order, as many Germans do currently.

It really annoys me somewhat that the wiki does not expicitly meantion that in the (high) middle ages Teuton was term to refer to german peoples. Anyway, I wasted enough of my time, so I leave it at this.

I don´t want my claims to be unsupported, so I will give a link to a wikipedia page and on top of it, it says that Teutons can just refer to germanic peoples collectively: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutons

Lord Vipertooth (talk) 20:34, November 11, 2018 (UTC)