Im Europe, when did it stop being important what people one belongs to (Celt, Teuton, etc)?
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The correct answer would be never. Even to this day, the clans that people desended from is still important. An example of this would be the Basque separtists in Spain.
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I would vote for the time of Charlemagne, about 800 AD. Religion had a lot to do with it. Many of the germanic tribes who overran the Roman empire were converts to a heretical sect of Christianity called Arianism; the rest were pagan. Half of Spain belonged to the Muslims. The native italians, celts, and iberians of the former empire were Roman Catholic. Religious prejudices kept the various peoples apart until a champion of Catholicism arose in the form of Clovis, king of the Franks, a pagan who converted to Catholicism in 496. He and his successors, culminating in Charles the Great (Charlemagne), gradually conquered the pagan and Arian tribes, converting them to Catholicism by the sword. By the end of Charlemagne's reign in 814, the Franks had conquered most of western Europe and made it "Frankish and Catholic". Charlemagne's three grandsons split his kingdom into the nations of Italy, France, and Germany. People began to think of themselves as French, Gernan, or Italian, instead of identifying with the old tribes.
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