History And Historical Facts
The first humans arrived on the territory of modern Lithuania in the 10th millennium BC
after the glaciers receded at the end of the last glacial period. The first Lithuanian people
were a branch of an ancient group known as the Balts. From the late 12th century, an
organized Lithuanian military force existed and it was used for external raids, plundering
and the gathering of slaves. Such military and monetary activities fostered social
differentiation and triggered a struggle for power in Lithuania. This initiated the formation
of early statehood, from which the Grand Duchy of Lithuania developed. From the 16th to
the mid-17th century, culture, arts and education flourished in Lithuania, fueled by the
Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation. The Lutheran ideas of the Reformation
entered the Livonian Confederation by the 1520s, and Lutheranism soon became the
prevailing religion in the urban areas of the region, while Lithuania remained Catholic.
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