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.
Except for the king, every noble in a feudal society served as a <u>vassal </u>to a higher noble. The vassal in medieval Europe, was a man who was granted land in exchange for service and loyalty to an older man or is more important. They made a feudal contract that was an exchange of promises between lords and vassals. In feudal society was the monarch, then the powerful lords who had vassals.
<span> Well a known fact the </span>Globe<span> was </span>closed<span> down by the Puritans in 1642.
It was destroyed in 1644 to make room for tenements.
just like the other's too in London :(
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<span>Roosevelt may have utilized information diagrams to express that individual salary and GNP dropped $40 billion amid Herbert Hoover's term as his forerunner. The GNP diminished to a very large and unacceptable way in the traverse of 3 years from 1929 to 1932.</span>
