Prussia was a strange little country. For most of its life, it was all split up. Ducal Prussia in the East was held by the Elector of Brandenburg, while royal Prussia in the West was part of Poland. By the beginning of the 18th century, the Hohenzollern family held firm control over both Brandenburg and Ducal Prussia, but it was always seeking to expand and collect more territory. In 1701, Elector Frederick III received the title 'King in Prussia' as a reward for helping the Holy Roman Emperor and Austrian ruler Leopold I, and the Kingdom of Prussia officially began.
Over the next several decades, Prussia grew in power, politically and militarily. The next king, Frederick William I, who reigned from 1713 to 1740, built up a massive army. He started out with about 38,000 soldiers in 1713, but by the time of his death, Prussia was a military powerhouse with over 80,000 well-trained soldiers.
The king's successor, Frederick II, at first seemed unlikely to make good use of all that military might. The new king styled himself as an 'enlightened' monarch. He studied the ideas of the Enlightenment, wrote essays on political philosophy, played and composed music and patronized the arts. Frederick II, however, was no wimp. He had an aggressive side, as we shall soon see.
The correct answer should be - a botanist who s<span>tudied nature to uncover why a certain plant kept dying.
The most important principle of Enlightenment is reason and knowledge - so instead on relying on superstition and unreliable facts, this person decided to actually explore and study nature further to reach a conclusion him/herself.
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No it really doesn’t, throughout history minorities and other groups of people during the time have been harassed and killed. An example would be the trail of tears in America. Thousands of indigenous people were lead on a March of death and to this day we still don’t have justice for the dead.
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it’s also the only one that would be considered a “scandal”
