One thing I forogt to mention: There's no linguistic connection between "Prussia" and "Russia". They sound similiar because of coincidence. In German, it is Preußen (Preussen) and Russland. Come join the Fire of Learning Discord server! discord.gg/YWscqva
The old, old name of the Neman River just happens to be Russ, and so, the area of its basin would have been called Porussie, or Prussia, in every day speak, just like the basin of the Volga River is called Povolzhie... It would include parts of today`s Poland, Lithuania and Belorussia.Seems like a solid connection to me... and, really, "They sound similiar because of coincidence"? Coincidence? Really? Your "Fire Of Learning" seems to be just a spark...
@@Chinaball-fx7gi Was the Roman empire the father of Italy? no? perhaps? Likewise do I think it is difficult to see the Holy Roman Empire as the father of Germany. German nationalism was rare back in the days. For example did Frederick the Great himself despise the idea of the creation of a unified Germany. And many Germans felt other loyalities than to the German state. Many felt more loyal to their Habsburg or Hohenzoller rules than towards Germany. And many kings and aristocrats were conservatives that rather kept their own power and privilegies than creating a new country and lose their standing. German nationalism get complicated further when the idea of creating a greater Germany comes up. Should the Netherlands be included? The Netherlands have the oldest national anthem in the world, and in the song text you can read that the people of the Netherlands see themselves as Germans under the Spanish king. And what about Switzerland, should they be included into Germany despite their own history and diaclect and large majority of minority ethnic groups? Bohemia is filled with slavs and Piemonte with Italians and they are not Germans, so should they be included into Germany since they are part of the Austrian empire? And what about the much less loyal Hungary which also have huge cultural and societal differences?
While an exaggeration there is a level of truth to it as Prussia is rather famous for its Military even though it did other things, Prussia even before the formation of the German Empire were well known for Acedemia which made Germant a center for Education and Culture.
Me and my family vacationed in Poland a few years ago. One of our visits was the Malbork Castle of the Teutonic Order. I've never seen a castle in person so being able to witness one of the greatest pieces of European history before my eyes was a great honour.
Chance A good joke! Prussia defeated Napoleon twice and Germans defeated French in the Italian wars, 7 years war, Napoleonic wars, Franco Prussian war and WW2 and other wars which aren’t that famous. Btw, Napoleon couldn‘t take Kolberg with 22.000 soldiers although the other side under Joachim Nettelbeck had just 2.000 soldiers.
Mars Dunes Putin caused that crisis in Iraq? When Iraq did not have strong government after death of Saddam Hussein so islamists could take the power and start influencing Syria? Did not know, thanks
Surperian Supreme reasoning you have there - if one is against mass immigration and turning a formerly Christian country into an Islamic one, that person must be a genocide-advocating national socialist.
By the way, before you say Prussia still lives in your heart, you should read up on the Prussian political system and the views of the Prussian leaders back in the day. I could make a nazi reference but I won’t stoop that low.
For Poles it was that old neighbour who always lived nearby and never spoke with us but got posessed by demons And fortunately died few generations ago But half of his body got possesed by other demons
@Analyzing Male Slavery Strange thing to say the a person who got in to the second best school in his country and got no grades lower than 8. But I have heard it said by a lot of people. Why is that? Seriously what is wrong about me always telling the truth and never lying?
My wife's great-grandparent's were from Prussia. He was Germanic, she was more Polish...He was a soldier in the Great War, and when it ended, they packed up and headed to the USA. First they went to Milwaukee and then to Missouri. They had relatives in both states. Her great grandfather died in 1938, but her great grandmother lived until 1972...I remember her well. Very small women, spoke very little English. but sweetnatured.
@@Vincenture Prussia to us is just a region of Germany and Poland, but to her it was where she was from. Germany had not been a nation for very long when she was born. it would be much like an American seeing themselves as from Texas or New York first, then being an American. I think she was about 92 when she died.
@@walsjell What are you talking aboud ? "teutonic order" is a name as german as it can get (teutones where an anciant german tribe) in german its even called deutscher orden (german order). And to implie that germans feel free of guild in terms of the world wars, meanwhile everybody thinks of nazis first when thinking about germany, just shows that you neither know about history nor whats going on in the world outside your little hamlet, where you probably have learned all that nonesense you just wrote. Ps. here is the list of our "slavic" Wormongernames in chronological order until the third reich that germans used to fool the rest of the world aboud our real identitty. Deutscher Orden Brandenburg-Preußen Königreich Preußen Norddeutscher Bund Deutsches Kaiserreich NS-Staat
@@walsjell Clam yourself brother. I know that we europians have fought each other for millenium but its time to stop because that is how we lost all our empires, we have to recodnize the true threat to our existance and work together to save ourselves even if we all unite we are only 8% of the world population and shrinking fast but we europians have proven trough out history to be the greatest. We will prevail!
@Ernest Hemingway The alliance imgur.com/KYqcuiT looking at people not governments. I can make a more detailed one if you want. "You guys" Who are you then? "have to all unite, but leave England out." They are europians as much as the germans and russians. "They are the first that want to destroy Europe." EU =/= Europe ; EU citizen =/= europian. "The USA is the other one that wants to destroy Europe." Americanst dont want to destroy europians, there rulers do. "You should also align yourselves a little mire with Russia. They are part of Europe too." Most certainly. "Hope Europeans can be free and Unite in the right way." The EU must be destroyed. And alliances that maintain national sovereignty between europians countries msut be created.
@@gunarsmiezis9321 I hope Europeans uncuck themselves and stop importing invaders. I live in Canada, although my parents are from Scotland. I want to move to France one day and get out of this hellhole but Emmanuel Macron is ruining France almost as badly as Trudeau is Canada ...
Overall I like the video, but you make it sound like Prussia's success was founded just on its army. However, a major factor were the reforms initiated by Friedrich II, including education, government, agriculture, religious freedoms and many more, making Prussia a very modern state for its time.
Love your channel. It's one of the few that teaches history without any cringey attempts at snarky humor. Thanks for such a concise breakdown of this complex segment of history.
This video was amazing! Out of many videos I watched about this subject, nothing came close to how clear this video is, and so easy to follow. Very good job!
My family on my fathers side came to the U.S. just before the civil war. And even I was raised knowing that "you''re not just german, youre prussian." I think this while being an anecdote is a valuable cultural artifact that speaks volumes.
This is the most magnificent and beautiful video I've ever seen. Such a glorious articulation of history's importance. You better keep on making these videos! History is so much more enjoyable digested through your work.
Prussia was the first state to enter the industrial revolution after Britain (and possibly Belgium). It was in the forefront in many areas like religious toleration and freedom of the press and abandonment of torture. Prussia was also early in introducing Conscription, and the Prussian school system have been copied by most countries in the world and many countries used modified copies of the same school system that Frederick the great created. Frederick the great turned a backwater with no natural resources into the strongest economy in Germany and greatly increased the size of the population in his kingdom. Prussia have a reputation of being a warlike militaristic kingdom, but it spend less years in war than any of the other great powers during the 18th century. And many other countries would probably want to have the same economic model as Prussia, but the problem was that most German states did have a very small population and could therefore not have a large army of over 200.000 men as a reliable customer for mass produced goods in textiles, iron making, making of fire arms and leather. The huge Prussian army could mean large orders for companies and it would be possible to start mass producing things. But for minor German states like Hannover and Baden this was simply not possible to do because their population and army was too small. So they could not have any strong state-led economic growth like Prussia. Instead did their governments have to rely on supporting existing industries, or having their governments creating a few new industries and then privatizing them after a few years because their countries did not have enough tax payers and economic muscles to support all new industries year after year like Prussia did. So Hannover had to rely on civilian products instead and selling sails for ships. And Baden produced low quality drinking glass. And the Prussian rhineland was a purely civilian economy. Saxony was an economy something in between militaristic Prussia and civilian Rhineland. Saxony did also make cannon balls like Prussia and invest heavily into making uniforms and opening new iron mines to secure the access to this important strategic resource in times of war. Saxony also had many flourishing civilian industries, and the Kingdom was one of the richest countries on the planet during the early 1700s thanks to its high-tech products of that day - the making of high quality luxury porcelain. Saxony had learned the art of how to make porcelain, and the government tried to keep it a well guarded state secret how to make it since it didn't want other countries to also make it and get competition from other countries. The kingdom of Saxony earned enormous amounts of money from their porcelain, and the King August the strong did have so much money that he not only could spend large amounts of money on making a large army, or bribing Polish nobleman so he could become the new King of Poland, but August could also spend large amounts of money on building projects in Saxony and on his personal luxury consumption. He was a fat guy who once upon a time was considered handsome by the women. He was the father of kids of many hundred different women, and he was called "the strong" because of his strong hands - he was able to bend a horse shoe with his own bare hands. August and Frederick the greats daddy - Frederick Vilhelm, used to go out and party togheter and get drunk, and August could then order a salute of many hundreds of cannons, or feasting on cakes made with over 600 eggs. But August did suck at warfare and he lost the battles he fought against Sweden in the great northern war despite always having the odds in his own favour. Anyhow, he would later on die. And then Saxony was taken over by a new monarch, and the country got invaded by Frederick the Great who plundered the Kingdom. Frederick also used industrial espionage and tried to steal the technology of making Meissen porcelain. And Prussia then learned to make porcelain on their own.
This. And some southern American nations picked up the military standards established by Prussia, which is why e.g. Chile today still holds military parades to Prussian marches (whilst their parade dresses look more like Wehrmacht, but that is another story)...
As a German guy a kind of appreciate a well researched video about Prussia being uploaded on my birthday! Thanks. _raising Pickelhaube-hat in deep appreciation_
Dude, this video is amazing. This video helped me to have a general view of what was Prussia. I wish you the best of lucks from Argentina mate, keep up the good work!
Thank you for doing what you're doing. History and geography videos are my favorites. I'm glad you're doing it. You remind me of knowledgehub and CGP grey.
@Sergio Martinez I love both those channels too, alternateHistoryHub is good too, but I feel like that Alt. is in some sort of decline. KnowledgeHub is still pretty lit! 🔥🔥
very interesting , I've always wondered how Prussia fit into things historically , as well as physically , I was way off , but this really clears things up , thanks for sharing.
Ah, I see! NOW I understand WHY it is so had to trace my Germanic ancestors. The wars, the structural changes in governors & government. The shifting borders. Changes of place names. It takes a toll...
Its far harder for a person like me. Im a latvietis and our surnames are only 200 years old and we have virtually no birth writings because all of us where surfs and most of us have never been christian. But Im fine with knowing my families hisotry in debt only for the last 200 years (my actual surname is exactly 100 years old). Because I know the hisotry of my people and I am not an individualist so all I need to know is that I am a pure blood latvietis, you can tell that I am by bough doing DNA test and by just looking at me if you blend the faces of every latviešu man you get mine perfectly, you can also tell by how I act and speck and who is in my family. I take pride in my people not my family alone.
The core of German Prussian state was always in Brandenburg, outlying areas of Pommerania, Prussia, and later on conquered Posen and Silesia were just backwater. Some more important than the others. The original Prussia, what was called East Prussia before the war, WAS just some poor agricultural backwater. The province was the poorest in all of Germany, that's why Adolf got so many votes from them - he promised a better future. Outside Konigsberg there were really no major urban settlements in Prussia proper, it was very rural, so not that much was lost from losing Prussia itself. Silesia was far more vital to Germany than that, both culturally and economically.
it still was a city of history and culture with some beautiful buildings and Kant as the most notable figure. Nowadays, just a militarised shithole ruined by hideous Soviet architecture
@@grzegorzkonieczny2682 A theretical question. Who starts the war the one who sends the ultimatum or the one that refusese it? Also last time I checked Poland was attacked by the USSR and had its people genocided but UK and France never declared war on the USSR.
This video was quite some time ago, but I watched the compilation of seven videos as a series and learned a hell of a lot about Germany. I’m currently going country by country learning all the basic overall history and this was a lot of help!
Was on your channel last night hoping you'd upload another video soon. Great work I love this channel and I want to support you on patreon just need to get some extra cash first.
I think that the german prussian mind set and prussian monarchy is exactly what the german people need. Wouldnt you agree? Also quick question, what are your views on the MGTOW? A short very answer is fine.
Bad vassal 1/10, would not accept a homage again. ;) Seriously though, great video! Only thing I would like to add is that the part of Prussia incorporated into Poland in 1466 as Royal Prussia (also known as the West Prussia) was mostly not a part of the original pagan Prussia, but a Polish territory (known as Pomeralia, Polish Pomerania, East Pomerania or Gdansk Pomerania), forcefully taken by the Order in 1308.
Thank you Justin. I've been very interested in this part of European history for a long time. Your video helped me understand many things that I have been wondering about for a long time.
Depends on the time. That couldn't have been true before 1806 because Prussia was a state outside of the HRE, while Brandenburg and Berlin were inside the HRE.
Prussia was northeastern Germany. Westfalia, Hannover (Lower Saxony), and parts of Hessen were annexed by Prussia but never became Prussian in mind ( with some exceptions in the upper classes). Prussia was essentially the provinces of Brandenburg, Pomerania, East- and Westprussia and Silesia. After the foundation of United Germany in 1871, Prussia slowly dissolved into Germany though it existed as an administrative and autonomous unit at least until 1932,when Prussia fell under control of the central government. It's parliament was dissolved. The Nazis didn't like Prussia except for propaganda purposes, nor many western and southern Germans. For the allies, Prussia meant the worst part of Germany. Except Brandenburg the proper Prussian territories after 1945 were governed by Poland and Sovjetunion, the population expelled. Prussia didn't and doesn't fit into modern Time. But without Prussian Spirit (Bismarck) Germany would not develop in the modern state, it is today.
Riley Sheppard the only path forward is submission to the great disciplined ones, all resistance shall be trampled under the mighty goose step of the prussian space marines.
Me? When I think of Prussia gone and become the ethnically cleansed territories of Poland, Russian Kalingrad, and Lithuania (previous Memel) I say good riddance.
Fun fact. In Lithuainia there is a rise in "Neo Paganism" Essentialy the revival of Baltic pagan traditions and culture, this includes the Pagan Prussian culture and language.
Comments like this help to improve new videos. Everyone makes mistakes, especially when you're dealing with European history which is very complex from the small amount that I know.
Thank you for doing this video. Very little is ever discussed about the history of this part of the world...yet a lot of western culture was SPAWNED from this region. I am of German/Danish heritage. My ancestors fled what is today Luxemborg to escape the Franco/Prussian war. Not entirely sure why my great, great grandfather left Denmark in the early 1900's (before WWI). My other ancestors on my mother's side were of Bavarian background.
I used to believe that Tectonic Plates were a namesake of the Teutonic Knights... in my head this made a lot of sense, With the way the Teutonic Knights had such a way of moving across Europe, A German order starting off in Acre and after its fall shifting their headquarters to Venice then being invited by the Poles to fight in the Baltic regions and finally retreating into Livonia, over time the order shifted and moved as do the Tectonic plates.
Theres a reason the soviets built the berlin wall to split the germans up my dude. They will fight the world again, it is a matter of when. They voted in these lefty progressives because theyve been conditioned to believe their warrior blood is bad, but all they need is one more mad lad who can rile them up into a frenzy.
@@hongobongo8069 The Big question is Who are real Soviets? Anglosaxons belong to german tribes and jews are close to german people too. Marxism ideology came from them and comunist descendants are still rulling in my Fatherland. They are rulling in many countrys, but how we can change this world to better way? Germans were our bigest enemies, but in second world war only germans fighted against soviets and our friends betreyed us to them.
You need to increase the VOLUME as we can barely hear you even though the volume on our iPads has been MAXED OUT. You do have something to say which is INTERESTING and of VALUE. THANK YOU.
Actucally do research Usa colonies send requivest to Prussian King to send military instructors for traning Contintal Army and Marines. So actually Marines are trained by Prussian Military. Many Prussian volunter as commanders in Contintal Army and Marines. During American Revolution against British Empire.
One addendum: Germany was the biggest nominal kingdom within the HRE. The emperors were both: emperor of the Romans and king of Germany. The way you're wording it makes it seem like there was no notion of Germany before the 19th century.
Yet Prussians were not only descendants of German colonists but also the original Baltic Prussians as well as Poles and Lithuanians. So it took a hybrid ethnic nation to unify the German states.
An excellent video, as always! One little detail that I have to complain about: your intro music is too loud for the rest of the video, where your voice is not that loud. Idk, maybe it's just personal. Please take this as a constructive critic.
Lmao only people that were worth anything were germanised slavs and balts.These noble people sacrificed their culture to teach primitive germans how to be better humans and how to have feelings.
I found this really informative but old political Europe was so complicated it would take a university study to get your head round it . The 30 years war was a massive mind boggle of murdering madness and its very unclear what it was really all about !
Awesome channel. But... at the beginning of your video, your awesome logo is always choppy and low quality. 117k subs, it would make more sense to fix that now than later. Super easy. I know it seems stupid, but it's a small effort investment that will make your channel seem better quality and more credible even though it's just a logo that's on screen for 2 seconds. Your content is already high quality, entertaining, and thought provoking. It only makes sense to bring this to the high standard we've learned you hold yourself to.
Hi fire of learning , i would love to see a video about the rise of Portugal , especially about the first kings and the connection with the knights templar , love your work keep it up! ;-)
Outsider Prussia united Germany Outsider Macedonia united Greece Almost ousider Piamonte united Italy Ousider Normandy united Great Britain Outsider Castile united the Andes
"Outsider Prussia united Germany" They where very much germans "Outsider Macedonia united Greece" They where very much greeks. "Ousider Normandy united Great Britain" destroyed the british and english peoples.
@@dr.leftfield9566 Was your point that William was a Viking in Normandy? That's the only way your statement would be correct. They were pretty genius. I say they because I'm sure the super family, including aunt Emma,had plenty to do in the planning of things. And how brilliant to change people's names and let them keep their welsh boarder lands as "norman" marcher lords. 😁 Genius!
To avoid having to serve in the Prussian military, my great-great-grandfather Frank Koenig fled to America in 1860. Unfortunately for him, he was promptly conscripted into the 2nd Union Army of Ohio and fought in the U.S. Civil War. Any other Prussian-Americans here besides me?
While Poland and Lithuania provided the greatest number of the forces fighting in that battle there were also their allies the Czechs (under the leadership of Jan Hus), Tartars, Letts (Lativians), Sorbs (whose descendants still exist in Germany as a distant ethnic Slavic speaking group) Ruthenians and some West Europeans such as Flemish knights.
@@iBreakAnkles4Fun Thank you for pointing this out. I did some more research and found that I made a mistake. Jan Hus did not participate in the Battle of Grunwald. It was one of his Hussite followers Jan Zizka who led the Czechs to fight on the side of the Poles and Lithuanians. After the Battle of Grunwald Zizka returned to Bohemia and fought in the Bohemian civil wars. In 1428 he defeated a combined force from the Holly Roman League and Hungary during the Battle of Horta. The Czechs regard him as the greatest military leader of his time although his leadership role in during the Battle of Grunwald would have been limited to leading his Czechs and obeying the orders of either Jagielo or Vytautas or one of their subordinates as to the order of battle he would participate in. From what I have read Zizka's role during the battle was defending nearby Radzyn against the attacking Teutonic Knights. Anyway, in doing the research I learnt something new.
I'm curious what source you got the Kingdom in Prussia from. I've seen it claimed many times, but I've never found a reputable source that confirms it, the only place I seem to be able to find it is from the Wikipedia article on Prussia.
If you're questioning the term "King in Prussia" as opposed to "King of Prussia", you can, for example, read it up in the Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek. If you're able to read 19th century German, that is. (daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00008365/images/index.html?seite=637 - third paragraph begins with "Friedrich Wilhelm I., König in Preußen."
Vinterthorn that's exactly what I was looking for, thank you. I was curious if this was true or not since I'd never seen anyone actually claiming it link a proper source, and the place I could only seem to find it was Wikipedia.
@brianw Hahah I totally get your comment bro, was up there in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and it was on that city that I ate a nice juicy salmon at the Long Horn Steak House when it seemed as though a Tornado was about to happen! Name of town must refer to the Fredrick Wilhelm von Steuben since it’s right by Valley Forge!
Although the HRE was weak at that time that doesn’t mean that some states in it were weak. Prussia and Austria are the main examples, but states like the free city of Hamburg ,which was something like a Global city beside London and Amsterdam, and even had a remarkable navy, are a little bit forgotten.
This subject is very interesting, I strongly recommend you add music, sound effects and more enthusiastic narration for a more comprehensive and complete learning clip. As well as opening and ending credits. Other than that all the footage you've presented is very good.
Do some more research to explain the history of Prussia. I think he skips over some very important facts. The history of the region! To understand its history and how it came to being. This is bad interpretation of how Prussia evolved. Not by someone who understands the region at all.
One thing I forogt to mention: There's no linguistic connection between "Prussia" and "Russia". They sound similiar because of coincidence. In German, it is Preußen (Preussen) and Russland.
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It should be noted though that an old fashioned German word for Russians is "Reußen".
@@lilbrothaaa You are ruining his video LOL
Fire Of Learning why was austria so rich and powerful despite it being a small mountainous country?
The old, old name of the Neman River just happens to be Russ, and so, the area of its basin would have been called Porussie, or Prussia, in every day speak, just like the basin of the Volga River is called Povolzhie... It would include parts of today`s Poland, Lithuania and Belorussia.Seems like a solid connection to me... and, really, "They sound similiar because of coincidence"? Coincidence? Really? Your "Fire Of Learning" seems to be just a spark...
How about Persia and Prussia hmmmm??? Jk
*Everyone:* Is Prussia Germany, or the forefather of Germany?
*Fire of Learning:* Yes
@@patrickmckeel9840 holy Ronan empire?
Chinaball 2019 A nation that was not holy, Roman, or really an empire? Yes. That too. German history is incredibly complicated.
Well, to be more precise, I should've said:
Ja.
@@Fireoflearning wow #WhyDoesSwedenStealSoMuchOfOtherPeoplesLanguages
i use that to just pronaunce it differently
@@Chinaball-fx7gi Was the Roman empire the father of Italy? no? perhaps?
Likewise do I think it is difficult to see the Holy Roman Empire as the father of Germany.
German nationalism was rare back in the days. For example did Frederick the Great himself despise the idea of the creation of a unified Germany.
And many Germans felt other loyalities than to the German state. Many felt more loyal to their Habsburg or Hohenzoller rules than towards Germany. And many kings and aristocrats were conservatives that rather kept their own power and privilegies than creating a new country and lose their standing.
German nationalism get complicated further when the idea of creating a greater Germany comes up.
Should the Netherlands be included? The Netherlands have the oldest national anthem in the world, and in the song text you can read that the people of the Netherlands see themselves as Germans under the Spanish king.
And what about Switzerland, should they be included into Germany despite their own history and diaclect and large majority of minority ethnic groups? Bohemia is filled with slavs and Piemonte with Italians and they are not Germans, so should they be included into Germany since they are part of the Austrian empire?
And what about the much less loyal Hungary which also have huge cultural and societal differences?
Some states have an army, the Prussian Army has a state. I love that line.
While an exaggeration there is a level of truth to it as Prussia is rather famous for its Military even though it did other things, Prussia even before the formation of the German Empire were well known for Acedemia which made Germant a center for Education and Culture.
There was once a " Deutschorden State " there I think, with a lot of people praying and fighting 😐 I think
Me: How big would you like your army to be?
Prussia: Yes
How big does Prussia want their army to be?
Prussia and North Korea: yes
i defeat 4 great camp on no timed. on .cp. Empire coLony.
Not big. Effective.
Me: how overpowered you want your army to be?
Prussia:Yes!
Me and my family vacationed in Poland a few years ago. One of our visits was the Malbork Castle of the Teutonic Order. I've never seen a castle in person so being able to witness one of the greatest pieces of European history before my eyes was a great honour.
Are you from the States? It's just sounds so wierd - "never seen a castle in person." No offense, just curious. Glag you had a good trip.
There are lots of castles where I grew up, but the first time I saw Malbork I felt so small. It really is a huge fortress.
@@ArtemVS I'm from Canada. Castles aren't really a thing here in the praries.
But we have these, images.app.goo.gl/dCSJE6N1CreHKF4w6
Who cares about your visit? You are a stupid persone and you should know this! No one cares about you or your stupid vacation!
Florin Gabriel bitch stfu.
*reads the title*
*starts crying uncontrollably*
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
LMAO 🤣
@@prussianmonarchist7110 Prussia will rise again!
The prusian monarchy and mind set is exactly what the german people need right now.
Also how do you plat to be accepted in to the army when you cant control your emotions.
This guy covered more history in one hour than the History Channel did in the last decade.
"What Was Prussia?"
*_Perfection._*
The Prussian army
Napoleon's toy
I said to my self glorious
*plays Prussia's glory*
Chance
So you think! But we know that Bismarck always had a plan.
Chance
A good joke! Prussia defeated Napoleon twice and Germans defeated French in the Italian wars, 7 years war, Napoleonic wars, Franco Prussian war and WW2 and other wars which aren’t that famous. Btw, Napoleon couldn‘t take Kolberg with 22.000 soldiers although the other side under Joachim Nettelbeck had just 2.000 soldiers.
What do you mean “was”? It still lives on in my heart
Krok Krok fuck off Nazi
How the hell did it explode in less than a hour
Mars Dunes Putin caused that crisis in Iraq? When Iraq did not have strong government after death of Saddam Hussein so islamists could take the power and start influencing Syria? Did not know, thanks
Surperian Supreme reasoning you have there - if one is against mass immigration and turning a formerly Christian country into an Islamic one, that person must be a genocide-advocating national socialist.
By the way, before you say Prussia still lives in your heart, you should read up on the Prussian political system and the views of the Prussian leaders back in the day. I could make a nazi reference but I won’t stoop that low.
Prussia is actually 150% discipline, do your research.
A very fine goosestep you have there
Nothing compared to the Gorkhan soldiers marching towards the Reich.
Nepal vs Prussia still is one of my favorite play throughs
I see you're a man of culture aswell
I thought that by more modern estimates, it was 175%.
No, they downgraded to 350%
Did I said downgrade? I meant upgrade
For Lithuanian and Latvian Prussia is a little brother lost in early childhood.
That got brutally maurdered by a cousin and had his name and room stolen. Also Latvieši, Lietuvieši, Prūši.
For Poles it was that old neighbour who always lived nearby and never spoke with us but got posessed by demons
And fortunately died few generations ago
But half of his body got possesed by other demons
@@jakubcesarzdakos5442 Sadly possessed by a demon called poland
@@Novozymandiaz Funny, tell that to Polish slaves in Prussian custody.
@@Vitalis94 Slaves? You mean state indentured assets.
Prussia was the Sparta of the Modern Era
@Analyzing Male Slavery Strange thing to say the a person who got in to the second best school in his country and got no grades lower than 8.
But I have heard it said by a lot of people.
Why is that?
Seriously what is wrong about me always telling the truth and never lying?
@Analyzing Male Slavery Is the person why insists others have the problems while not being able to say what they are.
Gunārs Miezis what the actual fuck? Women shouldn’t be given freedom? “Fascist” and “sexist” are grossly overused words but you are both
Yes!😀
Thunder Boldt this dude just gets rejected by women and now he acts like they are inferior to men.
One of the few non-messy parts of the HRE
but what about their western territories
But Prussia wasnt part of the HRE
@@SuperLusername originally not , but Brandenburg was.
...and it was messy...
If accurate 350% discipline
My wife's great-grandparent's were from Prussia. He was Germanic, she was more Polish...He was a soldier in the Great War, and when it ended, they packed up and headed to the USA. First they went to Milwaukee and then to Missouri. They had relatives in both states. Her great grandfather died in 1938, but her great grandmother lived until 1972...I remember her well. Very small women, spoke very little English. but sweetnatured.
How old was she like someone who identified as Prussian but lived till 1972 that must've been crazy
@@Vincenture Prussia to us is just a region of Germany and Poland, but to her it was where she was from. Germany had not been a nation for very long when she was born. it would be much like an American seeing themselves as from Texas or New York first, then being an American. I think she was about 92 when she died.
Virgin Country with an army
Chad Army with a Country
In Poland Prussian-Polish relations are taught in history classes in great detail, and were even a topic of final highschool exams back in the day.
Haha but not in Germany.
@@walsjell What are you talking aboud ? "teutonic order" is a name as german as it can get (teutones where an anciant german tribe) in german its even called deutscher orden (german order). And to implie that germans feel free of guild in terms of the world wars, meanwhile everybody thinks of nazis first when thinking about germany, just shows that you neither know about history nor whats going on in the world outside your little hamlet, where you probably have learned all that nonesense you just wrote.
Ps. here is the list of our "slavic" Wormongernames in chronological order until the third reich that germans used to fool the rest of the world aboud our real identitty.
Deutscher Orden
Brandenburg-Preußen
Königreich Preußen
Norddeutscher Bund
Deutsches Kaiserreich
NS-Staat
@@walsjell Clam yourself brother.
I know that we europians have fought each other for millenium but its time to stop because that is how we lost all our empires, we have to recodnize the true threat to our existance and work together to save ourselves even if we all unite we are only 8% of the world population and shrinking fast but we europians have proven trough out history to be the greatest. We will prevail!
@Ernest Hemingway The alliance imgur.com/KYqcuiT looking at people not governments. I can make a more detailed one if you want.
"You guys" Who are you then?
"have to all unite, but leave England out." They are europians as much as the germans and russians.
"They are the first that want to destroy Europe." EU =/= Europe ; EU citizen =/= europian.
"The USA is the other one that wants to destroy Europe." Americanst dont want to destroy europians, there rulers do.
"You should also align yourselves a little mire with Russia. They are part of Europe too." Most certainly.
"Hope Europeans can be free and Unite in the right way." The EU must be destroyed. And alliances that maintain national sovereignty between europians countries msut be created.
@@gunarsmiezis9321 I hope Europeans uncuck themselves and stop importing invaders. I live in Canada, although my parents are from Scotland. I want to move to France one day and get out of this hellhole but Emmanuel Macron is ruining France almost as badly as Trudeau is Canada ...
The King has a great mall near Philadelphia....
I'll see myself out...
Im holding the door for you
LOL !!
@Reginald Dorsey I went to a steak restaurant there bro, in the mall parking lot, same day a tornado was trying to form.
King of Prussia Pennsylvania?
@@redornament3248 yes
Overall I like the video, but you make it sound like Prussia's success was founded just on its army. However, a major factor were the reforms initiated by Friedrich II, including education, government, agriculture, religious freedoms and many more, making Prussia a very modern state for its time.
Love your channel. It's one of the few that teaches history without any cringey attempts at snarky humor. Thanks for such a concise breakdown of this complex segment of history.
This video was amazing! Out of many videos I watched about this subject, nothing came close to how clear this video is, and so easy to follow. Very good job!
My family on my fathers side came to the U.S. just before the civil war. And even I was raised knowing that "you''re not just german, youre prussian." I think this while being an anecdote is a valuable cultural artifact that speaks volumes.
This is the most magnificent and beautiful video I've ever seen.
Such a glorious articulation of history's importance.
You better keep on making these videos!
History is so much more enjoyable digested through your work.
Extraordinarily kind of you, thank you
Prussia was the first state to enter the industrial revolution after Britain (and possibly Belgium). It was in the forefront in many areas like religious toleration and freedom of the press and abandonment of torture. Prussia was also early in introducing Conscription, and the Prussian school system have been copied by most countries in the world and many countries used modified copies of the same school system that Frederick the great created.
Frederick the great turned a backwater with no natural resources into the strongest economy in Germany and greatly increased the size of the population in his kingdom. Prussia have a reputation of being a warlike militaristic kingdom, but it spend less years in war than any of the other great powers during the 18th century. And many other countries would probably want to have the same economic model as Prussia, but the problem was that most German states did have a very small population and could therefore not have a large army of over 200.000 men as a reliable customer for mass produced goods in textiles, iron making, making of fire arms and leather. The huge Prussian army could mean large orders for companies and it would be possible to start mass producing things.
But for minor German states like Hannover and Baden this was simply not possible to do because their population and army was too small. So they could not have any strong state-led economic growth like Prussia. Instead did their governments have to rely on supporting existing industries, or having their governments creating a few new industries and then privatizing them after a few years because their countries did not have enough tax payers and economic muscles to support all new industries year after year like Prussia did. So Hannover had to rely on civilian products instead and selling sails for ships. And Baden produced low quality drinking glass.
And the Prussian rhineland was a purely civilian economy.
Saxony was an economy something in between militaristic Prussia and civilian Rhineland. Saxony did also make cannon balls like Prussia and invest heavily into making uniforms and opening new iron mines to secure the access to this important strategic resource in times of war. Saxony also had many flourishing civilian industries, and the Kingdom was one of the richest countries on the planet during the early 1700s thanks to its high-tech products of that day - the making of high quality luxury porcelain.
Saxony had learned the art of how to make porcelain, and the government tried to keep it a well guarded state secret how to make it since it didn't want other countries to also make it and get competition from other countries.
The kingdom of Saxony earned enormous amounts of money from their porcelain, and the King August the strong did have so much money that he not only could spend large amounts of money on making a large army, or bribing Polish nobleman so he could become the new King of Poland, but August could also spend large amounts of money on building projects in Saxony and on his personal luxury consumption. He was a fat guy who once upon a time was considered handsome by the women. He was the father of kids of many hundred different women, and he was called "the strong" because of his strong hands - he was able to bend a horse shoe with his own bare hands.
August and Frederick the greats daddy - Frederick Vilhelm, used to go out and party togheter and get drunk, and August could then order a salute of many hundreds of cannons, or feasting on cakes made with over 600 eggs. But August did suck at warfare and he lost the battles he fought against Sweden in the great northern war despite always having the odds in his own favour.
Anyhow, he would later on die.
And then Saxony was taken over by a new monarch, and the country got invaded by Frederick the Great who plundered the Kingdom. Frederick also used industrial espionage and tried to steal the technology of making Meissen porcelain.
And Prussia then learned to make porcelain on their own.
This. And some southern American nations picked up the military standards established by Prussia, which is why e.g. Chile today still holds military parades to Prussian marches (whilst their parade dresses look more like Wehrmacht, but that is another story)...
Prussia was also THE first Protestant state in the world. I find it very ironic, the state of monk-knights, devout Catholics, ended up as Protestants.
BRAVO!!!
How could you go into so much detail about the individual German states and not mention Bavaria?
nattygsbord
Damn, you love you some Prussia!
As a German guy a kind of appreciate a well researched video about Prussia being uploaded on my birthday!
Thanks. _raising Pickelhaube-hat in deep appreciation_
Dude, this video is amazing. This video helped me to have a general view of what was Prussia. I wish you the best of lucks from Argentina mate, keep up the good work!
Thank you for doing what you're doing. History and geography videos are my favorites. I'm glad you're doing it. You remind me of knowledgehub and CGP grey.
@Sergio Martinez I love both those channels too, alternateHistoryHub is good too, but I feel like that Alt. is in some sort of decline. KnowledgeHub is still pretty lit! 🔥🔥
"You remind me of knowledgehub and CGP grey." He doesnt to me. I have very bad memories of those chanels.
Prussia has 350% discipline and still growing
My great, great grandfather was Prussian. He came to America at age 16 as a stowaway. That was very interesting. Thank You.
What was Prussia?
Beautiful
very interesting , I've always wondered how Prussia fit into things historically , as well as physically , I was way off , but this really clears things up , thanks for sharing.
An impressive Army (to the disadvantage of Denmark). Also rumored to have the first retirement system for their soldiers.
Poor Denmark, being located so closely to them
Ah, I see! NOW I understand WHY it is so had to trace my Germanic ancestors. The wars, the structural changes in governors & government. The shifting borders. Changes of place names.
It takes a toll...
Its far harder for a person like me. Im a latvietis and our surnames are only 200 years old and we have virtually no birth writings because all of us where surfs and most of us have never been christian.
But Im fine with knowing my families hisotry in debt only for the last 200 years (my actual surname is exactly 100 years old). Because I know the hisotry of my people and I am not an individualist so all I need to know is that I am a pure blood latvietis, you can tell that I am by bough doing DNA test and by just looking at me if you blend the faces of every latviešu man you get mine perfectly, you can also tell by how I act and speck and who is in my family.
I take pride in my people not my family alone.
A better question would be what has become of Prussia? "Kaliningrad"? What a joke.
The core of German Prussian state was always in Brandenburg, outlying areas of Pommerania, Prussia, and later on conquered Posen and Silesia were just backwater. Some more important than the others. The original Prussia, what was called East Prussia before the war, WAS just some poor agricultural backwater. The province was the poorest in all of Germany, that's why Adolf got so many votes from them - he promised a better future.
Outside Konigsberg there were really no major urban settlements in Prussia proper, it was very rural, so not that much was lost from losing Prussia itself. Silesia was far more vital to Germany than that, both culturally and economically.
it still was a city of history and culture with some beautiful buildings and Kant as the most notable figure. Nowadays, just a militarised shithole ruined by hideous Soviet architecture
@easy deism The germans did not start the WWs
@@gunarsmiezis9321 yeah, WW2 was started by Poland, right?
@@grzegorzkonieczny2682 A theretical question. Who starts the war the one who sends the ultimatum or the one that refusese it?
Also last time I checked Poland was attacked by the USSR and had its people genocided but UK and France never declared war on the USSR.
This video was quite some time ago, but I watched the compilation of seven videos as a series and learned a hell of a lot about Germany. I’m currently going country by country learning all the basic overall history and this was a lot of help!
Was on your channel last night hoping you'd upload another video soon. Great work I love this channel and I want to support you on patreon just need to get some extra cash first.
Thank you!
Excellent video! Greetings from Franken!
I think that the german prussian mind set and prussian monarchy is exactly what the german people need. Wouldnt you agree?
Also quick question, what are your views on the MGTOW? A short very answer is fine.
Thank you very much for this video. It helped clear up many questions I have had about Prussia and greater Germany for a long time.
Bad vassal 1/10, would not accept a homage again. ;)
Seriously though, great video! Only thing I would like to add is that the part of Prussia incorporated into Poland in 1466 as Royal Prussia (also known as the West Prussia) was mostly not a part of the original pagan Prussia, but a Polish territory (known as Pomeralia, Polish Pomerania, East Pomerania or Gdansk Pomerania), forcefully taken by the Order in 1308.
Thank you Justin. I've been very interested in this part of European history for a long time. Your video helped me understand many things that I have been wondering about for a long time.
Prussia was northern Germany with its capital Berlin
You are sabotaging his 10 min video...
Depends on the time. That couldn't have been true before 1806 because Prussia was a state outside of the HRE, while Brandenburg and Berlin were inside the HRE.
Prussia was northeastern Germany. Westfalia, Hannover (Lower Saxony), and parts of Hessen were annexed by Prussia but never became Prussian in mind ( with some exceptions in the upper classes). Prussia was essentially the provinces of Brandenburg, Pomerania, East- and Westprussia and Silesia. After the foundation of United Germany in 1871, Prussia slowly dissolved into Germany though it existed as an administrative and autonomous unit at least until 1932,when Prussia fell under control of the central government. It's parliament was dissolved. The Nazis didn't like Prussia except for propaganda purposes, nor many western and southern Germans. For the allies, Prussia meant the worst part of Germany. Except Brandenburg the proper Prussian territories after 1945 were governed by Poland and Sovjetunion, the population expelled. Prussia didn't and doesn't fit into modern Time. But without Prussian Spirit (Bismarck) Germany would not develop in the modern state, it is today.
We shouldn't ask ourselves what Prussia was. We whould rather ask ourselves what Prussia is.
And it is...in our hearts.
Aŭstria would have united the Germans if they had learned to harness the power of the Lande Crab.
Riley Sheppard the only path forward is submission to the great disciplined ones, all resistance shall be trampled under the mighty goose step of the prussian space marines.
What would Austria have done with all her non-German territories if she had united Germany instead of Prussia?
David Rosner they would have become satellites to the greater reich.
Riley Sheppard no they didn't have Bismarck
Is Lande Crab an Austrian word what does it mean?
Me when I think of Modern Germany with Prussia: Happy
Me when I realize that Prussia had been abolished during Law 46: Depressed
Me? When I think of Prussia gone and become the ethnically cleansed territories of Poland, Russian Kalingrad, and Lithuania (previous Memel) I say good riddance.
@@ronaldostrowski4014 Me ? When I see Catholic Poles Roleplaying as Pomeranian pagans on my Ancestral home of Wollin ... Kajewskis
Fun fact. In Lithuainia there is a rise in "Neo Paganism" Essentialy the revival of Baltic pagan traditions and culture, this includes the Pagan Prussian culture and language.
Makes me so proud of my ancestors. Thank you!
Now I have to go watch your videos on the history of Germany!! You rock!!
Awesome video, dude!
Can you please do a documentary on Germany's older brother, Austria?
Older brother? Younger brother? Not much brotherly love lost there!
Elegantly explained! Finally managed to understand the matter clearly. Thank you.
Plz do fall of Byzantium
Both of them, 1204 and 1453.
One more video about Germany and then I'm on it
Chris Camilleri there’s a lot of fall of Byzantium vids, Justin’s Byzantine-midlife vid was one of the best I’ve ever seen
He did now
Thank you Fire of Learning, the beginning is excellent 'What was Prussia'
The best nation in the world
Alexa play Preußens Gloria
Blues!
Why the best? Because they were a murderous and an imperialist nation?
Alexa play the remix
Wojtek3818 Yeah pretty much
@@Wojtek3818_ bruh
For me as a Lithuanian it is so disappointing that you repeatedly make mistake by naming Poland is stead of PLC(Poland&Lithuanian Commonwealth) :(
#MeToo
ik it's not what it's used for xD
Comments like this help to improve new videos. Everyone makes mistakes, especially when you're dealing with European history which is very complex from the small amount that I know.
Same. It was our common state :(
4:08 my eyes one look to east n the other to west...
Does this have something to do with his appearance.
@@aymarafan7669 is his ancestor?
I think you will find that Britain had a major part in the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, especially at Waterloo.
both parts were indispensable. Wellington couldn't have beaten Napoleon on his own. however, Bluchers parts is the one constantly being disregarded
As a grand strategy player, I wince every time I see a map of the HRE
Depends pre or post iterragnum
I am a Deutschefile I have spent 50 years trying to understand the Prussian/German history before 1848 and I'm still so lost. Thanks for trying.
Thank you for doing this video. Very little is ever discussed about the history of this part of the world...yet a lot of western culture was SPAWNED from this region. I am of German/Danish heritage. My ancestors fled what is today Luxemborg to escape the Franco/Prussian war. Not entirely sure why my great, great grandfather left Denmark in the early 1900's (before WWI). My other ancestors on my mother's side were of Bavarian background.
I used to believe that Tectonic Plates were a namesake of the Teutonic Knights... in my head this made a lot of sense, With the way the Teutonic Knights had such a way of moving across Europe, A German order starting off in Acre and after its fall shifting their headquarters to Venice then being invited by the Poles to fight in the Baltic regions and finally retreating into Livonia, over time the order shifted and moved as do the Tectonic plates.
Prussia? Thats us! It still lives in our blood, heard and soul.
@@forestrambo4795 you haven't grasped this conquest thing have you
Prussia 88 is in heart system. Rusa - Puse - Prusa.
Theres a reason the soviets built the berlin wall to split the germans up my dude.
They will fight the world again, it is a matter of when. They voted in these lefty progressives because theyve been conditioned to believe their warrior blood is bad, but all they need is one more mad lad who can rile them up into a frenzy.
@@hongobongo8069 The Big question is Who are real Soviets? Anglosaxons belong to german tribes and jews are close to german people too. Marxism ideology came from them and comunist descendants are still rulling in my Fatherland. They are rulling in many countrys, but how we can change this world to better way? Germans were our bigest enemies, but in second world war only germans fighted against soviets and our friends betreyed us to them.
You need to increase the VOLUME as we can barely hear you even though the volume on our iPads has been MAXED OUT. You do have something to say which is INTERESTING and of VALUE. THANK YOU.
Someone once said that Prussia was like The US Marine Corp having its own state.
Actucally do research Usa colonies send requivest to Prussian King to send military instructors for traning Contintal Army and Marines. So actually Marines are trained by Prussian Military. Many Prussian volunter as commanders in Contintal Army and Marines. During American Revolution against British Empire.
i didn't understand a thing. but their fashion was outstanding.
kaiser wilhelm 1 was not proclaimed as emperor of germany rather emperor of the germans
His titles was "German Emperor" "Deutscher Kaiser" actually
One addendum: Germany was the biggest nominal kingdom within the HRE. The emperors were both: emperor of the Romans and king of Germany.
The way you're wording it makes it seem like there was no notion of Germany before the 19th century.
Birthed out of an eastern conquest, Prussia was the force that unified the German people under one banner and led its way into a modern nation.
Yet Prussians were not only descendants of German colonists but also the original Baltic Prussians as well as Poles and Lithuanians. So it took a hybrid ethnic nation to unify the German states.
My greatgrandfather was a Prussian and had a traditional Prussian education. Looking back at it, it was the best education for me.
It's amazing how I can feel patriotism for a country that no longer exists neither has any relation to my family
An excellent video, as always! One little detail that I have to complain about: your intro music is too loud for the rest of the video, where your voice is not that loud. Idk, maybe it's just personal. Please take this as a constructive critic.
"Frederick don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no mo..."
Thank you for explaining the place of Prussia in Germany it was an eye-opener and gave new meaning to my heritage. Marten Heinrich Rehders.
Excellent, very informative! Love your videos!
Related to the Hohenzollerns so its always fascinating learning about Prussia
As a latvian i will always associate this word with our now extinct brothers who were assimilated by germans
Westur Psychedelic As a Lithuanian, I can agree to this
I also agree with this.
Lmao only people that were worth anything were germanised slavs and balts.These noble people sacrificed their culture to teach primitive germans how to be better humans and how to have feelings.
@Sam Urai "Superior German ubermenschen". Hell, get out of here, you racist fuck.
For Lithuanians and Latvians Prussia is a little brother, lost in early childhood
Thank you for clearing this up ..
Alsthe o Poland Lithuania commonwealth was a union, not just Poland, and should not be referred to as such as a whole
"Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments"
-Fredrick the Great
Germany's major sin was to be the last major country to unify. The British were having none of that.
I found this really informative but old political Europe was so complicated it would take a university study to get your head round it . The 30 years war was a massive mind boggle of murdering madness and its very unclear what it was really all about !
Awesome channel.
But... at the beginning of your video, your awesome logo is always choppy and low quality. 117k subs, it would make more sense to fix that now than later. Super easy.
I know it seems stupid, but it's a small effort investment that will make your channel seem better quality and more credible even though it's just a logo that's on screen for 2 seconds.
Your content is already high quality, entertaining, and thought provoking. It only makes sense to bring this to the high standard we've learned you hold yourself to.
I think you're right, thank you for the advice
Hi fire of learning , i would love to see a video about the rise of Portugal , especially about the first kings and the connection with the knights templar , love your work keep it up! ;-)
Outsider Prussia united Germany
Outsider Macedonia united Greece
Almost ousider Piamonte united Italy
Ousider Normandy united Great Britain
Outsider Castile united the Andes
"Outsider Prussia united Germany" They where very much germans
"Outsider Macedonia united Greece" They where very much greeks.
"Ousider Normandy united Great Britain" destroyed the british and english peoples.
Nobody from Normandy united Great Britain.
@@dr.leftfield9566 have you never heard of william the bastard ?
@@dr.leftfield9566 😂😂😂
@@dr.leftfield9566 Was your point that William was a Viking in Normandy? That's the only way your statement would be correct.
They were pretty genius. I say they because I'm sure the super family, including aunt Emma,had plenty to do in the planning of things. And how brilliant to change people's names and let them keep their welsh boarder lands as "norman" marcher lords. 😁 Genius!
Appreciate the video! I always wondered what Prussia was. I am a little less confused 😂
6:45 The only thing you need to know when talking to anyone about history
Everyone loves the Double Red Eagle.
As a Pole, I find this title-question both hilarious and offensive to my historical knowledge.
To avoid having to serve in the Prussian military, my great-great-grandfather Frank Koenig fled to America in 1860. Unfortunately for him, he was promptly conscripted into the 2nd Union Army of Ohio and fought in the U.S. Civil War. Any other Prussian-Americans here besides me?
"What _was_ Prussia?"
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Great video as always!!
I will be donating and I’m a subscriber. Please do a video explaining how England laid claim to part of France.
The Angevin Empire
Poland and Lithuania won the battle of Grunwald 1410 not Poland alone....
While Poland and Lithuania provided the greatest number of the forces fighting in that battle there were also their allies the Czechs (under the leadership of Jan Hus), Tartars, Letts (Lativians), Sorbs (whose descendants still exist in Germany as a distant ethnic Slavic speaking group) Ruthenians and some West Europeans such as Flemish knights.
@@ronaldostrowski4014 There were a tiny number of czech mercenaries and they also fought on the german side..
@@iBreakAnkles4Fun Thank you for pointing this out. I did some more research and found that I made a mistake. Jan Hus did not participate in the Battle of Grunwald. It was one of his Hussite followers Jan Zizka who led the Czechs to fight on the side of the Poles and Lithuanians. After the Battle of Grunwald Zizka returned to Bohemia and fought in the Bohemian civil wars. In 1428 he defeated a combined force from the Holly Roman League and Hungary during the Battle of Horta. The Czechs regard him as the greatest military leader of his time although his leadership role in during the Battle of Grunwald would have been limited to leading his Czechs and obeying the orders of either Jagielo or Vytautas or one of their subordinates as to the order of battle he would participate in. From what I have read Zizka's role during the battle was defending nearby Radzyn against the attacking Teutonic Knights. Anyway, in doing the research I learnt something new.
I were in Talinn 2 months ago and it was very intresting learning the history etc.
I'm curious what source you got the Kingdom in Prussia from. I've seen it claimed many times, but I've never found a reputable source that confirms it, the only place I seem to be able to find it is from the Wikipedia article on Prussia.
If you're questioning the term "King in Prussia" as opposed to "King of Prussia", you can, for example, read it up in the Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek. If you're able to read 19th century German, that is. (daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00008365/images/index.html?seite=637 - third paragraph begins with "Friedrich Wilhelm I., König in Preußen."
Vinterthorn that's exactly what I was looking for, thank you. I was curious if this was true or not since I'd never seen anyone actually claiming it link a proper source, and the place I could only seem to find it was Wikipedia.
@@bradenculver7457 You're welcome. :)
Excellent intro. Some of my forebears came from there.
I grew up in Germany, and even I don't know everything about it.. it's complicated
@Luís Filipe Andrade damn, no wonder ap euro was hard
No, it isn't!
Because they don’t teach history anymore. They teach multiculturalism instead.
@@CamoflaugeDinosaue I left Germany in '94.. so no dude, we were taught history, it's just really convoluted
@@CamoflaugeDinosaue When you forget your past, you will loose your future!
Wish my history teacher had been as knowledgeable as you!
The King of Prussia has great malls
@brianw Hahah I totally get your comment bro, was up there in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and it was on that city that I ate a nice juicy salmon at the Long Horn Steak House when it seemed as though a Tornado was about to happen! Name of town must refer to the Fredrick Wilhelm von Steuben since it’s right by Valley Forge!
Although the HRE was weak at that time that doesn’t mean that some states in it were weak. Prussia and Austria are the main examples, but states like the free city of Hamburg ,which was something like a Global city beside London and Amsterdam, and even had a remarkable navy, are a little bit forgotten.
The question we have to actually focus on is "Why was Prussia"
This subject is very interesting, I strongly recommend you add music, sound effects and more enthusiastic narration for a more comprehensive and complete learning clip. As well as opening and ending credits.
Other than that all the footage you've presented is very good.
Not really clarification of anything. But thanks for the effort anyway,
this didn't clear anything up for me, but I appreciate the effort
Do some more research to explain the history of Prussia. I think he skips over some very important facts. The history of the region! To understand its history and how it came to being. This is bad interpretation of how Prussia evolved. Not by someone who understands the region at all.
Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened