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=== Early continental and overseas emigration/migration<br> === | === Early continental and overseas emigration/migration<br> === | ||
After 1648 land became available. People moved eastward to open up new frontiers. Couples married at a younger age. Others had to flee from further religious conflicts. The first larger emigration to North America began when the Concord delivered Germans to Pennsylvania in 1683. People from the Netherlands fled religious disputes and settled in the marshy areas of Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany. They built dykes and established milk processing stations, travelling as far as West Prussia to settle along the Vistula river. See [http://www.thorn-wpr.de/Grafik/PlanNied.gif '''this map'''.] Still others followed an invitation by Catherine the Great to settle in the Black Sea regions. This map shows German areas from which people emigrated in large numbers [http://www. | After 1648 land became available. People moved eastward to open up new frontiers. Couples married at a younger age. Others had to flee from further religious conflicts. The first larger emigration to North America began when the Concord delivered Germans to Pennsylvania in 1683. People from the Netherlands fled religious disputes and settled in the marshy areas of Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany. They built dykes and established milk processing stations, travelling as far as West Prussia to settle along the Vistula river. See [http://www.thorn-wpr.de/Grafik/PlanNied.gif '''this map'''.] Still others followed an invitation by Catherine the Great to settle in the Black Sea regions. This map shows German areas from which people emigrated in large numbers [http://www.ourgenealogy.ca/Germany/1700GerEm3.jpg '''during the 17th and 18th centuries''']. | ||
=== Political and social unrest<br> === | === Political and social unrest<br> === | ||