Because they were tolerant of different beliefs and encouraged trade between different cultures along the Silk Road, ensuring the safety of traders traveling along the trade routes.
<span>his main goal was to strengthen even further the position of Prussia in Europe. </span>
<span>Combining nobles and knights must have created the lords. It couldn't have created the royals because knights weren't always of royal blood. It certainly couldn't have created the peasants as they already existed at a much lower status than either Knights or nobles who would not have moved down in status through combining. I don't think it is vassals because vassals were landholders who owed allegiance but again not all knights owned land so that rules them out. That leaves the group called "lords". Lords are still in existence today and people are still "nobles" and are still knighted by royalty. So that makes "Lords" the most correct answer.</span>