AGE OF ABSOLUTISM

RISE OF PRUSSIA

RISE OF PRUSSIA 1415-1648

PRUSSIA 1417-1614

EUROPE 1648

FREDERICK WILLIAMTHE GREAT ELECTOR

BORN 1620 , KING 1640, DIED 1688FIRST MAN TO BEGIN MODERN

PRUSSIABUILT A SMALL BUT EFECTIVE ARMYCREATED THE “BRADENBURG

PROGRAM”=== HAVE AN ARMY, CONSERVE IT,GAIN ENDS BY DIPLOMACY

FOREIGN POLICY GOALS1.SOLIDIFY SOVEREIGNTY IN PRUSSIA

2. GET POMERIANIA

3. ROUND OFF PRUSSIAN TERRITORY

RECEIVED THE TITLE OF KING FROM THE HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR IN RETURN FOR THE USE OF 8,000 PRUSSIAN SOLDIERS

PRUSSIAN MILITARYARMY DESIGNED AS A DEFENSIVE

MEASUREARMY SIZE VERY LARGE COMPARED

TO THE SIZE OF ITS POPULATION THE ARMY WAS THE FIRST OF ALL

PRUSSIAN INSTITUTIONSARMY WAS MAINTAINED BY TAXES THE ARMY COLLECTED THE TAXESARMY WAS A LARGE PART OF THE

PRUSSIAN ECONOMY

PRUSSIAN TAXES1.EXCISE TAXES2.SALT TAXES3.OLD LAND TAXES PRUSSIA IMPORTED PRODUCTIVE

AND TECHNICAL WORKERS LANDED ARISTOCRACY(JUNKERS)

ABSORBED INTO THE MILITARY AS OFFICERS

ARMY USED TO IMPLANT ALL PRUSSIAN PSYCHOLOGY INTO PRUSSIAN TERRITORY

PRUSSIAN PSYCHOLOGY1.SENSE OF SERVICE TO THE KING2.DUTY3.OBEDIENCE4.SERVICE5.SACRIFICE

PRUSSIAN POPULATION VERY SUPPORTIVE OF MILITARY

PRUSSIA 1614-1688

FREDERICK III ELECTOR AND FREDERICK I KING

OF PRUSSIA BORN 1657, KING 1688, DIED 1713 INHERITED A 300,000 MAN ARMY CROWNED KING BY AUSTRIAN

EMPEROR 1701 SPENT LARGE SUMS OF MONEY ON

PALACES AND STRENGTHENING THE ABSOLUTE MONARCHY OF PRUSSIA

CHARLOTTENBURGCASTLE

BUILT BY FREDERICK I FOR

QUEEN SOPHIA CHARLOTTE

CHARLOTTENBURG CASTLE

THE GOLD GALLERY

THE CERAMIC

ROOM

THE RED CHAMBER

FREDERICK WILLIAM I

BORN 1688, KING 1713, DIED 1740 THE SERGEANT KING REPRESSED ESTATES OR

PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLIES TO APPEASE THE JUNKERS THEY

WERE PROMISED COMISSIONS IN THE ARMY AND A FREE HAND OVER THE PEASANTS

PRESERVED THE JUNKER CLASS BY FORBIDDING THE SALE OF NOBLE LAND TO ANY PERSON WHO WAS NOT A NOBLE

PERSONALCHARACTERISTICS

DISDAINED CULTUREHATED TO SPEND MONEY ON NON-

MILITARY ITEMS CUT HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES BY 3/4 SPENT 2447 THALERS ON HIS

CORONATION WHILE HIS FATHER HAD SPENT 5,000,000

A WORKAHOLIC SUPERVISED THE COUNTRY LIKE IT

WAS HIS PRIVATE KINGDOM

FIRST PRUSSIAN KING TO ALWAYS APPEAR IN PUBLIC IN MILITARY UNIFORM

COLLECTED A SPECIAL UNIT OF GUARDS CALLED THE POTSDAM GUARDS( MINIMUM HEIGHT 6FT)

FOUGHT ALMOST NO WARS LEFT 7,000,000 THALERS IN THE

TREASURY ON HIS DEATH

PRUSSIA 1688-1748

FREDERICK II THE GREAT BORN 1712 KING 1740 DIED 1786 RAN AWAY FROM

HOME 3 TIMES TO TRY AND GET AWAY FROM HIS STRICT FATHER

PATRON OF ARTS AND LETTERS

FIRST SERVANT OF THE STATE

A MILITARY GENIUS, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE’S IDOL

WROTE 33 VOLUMES OF MATERIALA LOVER OF FRENCH CULTURE INVITED VOLTAIRE TO LIVE AT HIS

COURT(3YRS) EXPANDED PRUSSIA AND PRUSSIAN

POWERUSED THE PRUSSIAN ARMY AT ONE

POINT TAKING ON AUSTRIA,RUSSIA.SWEDEN,FRANCE, AND SAXONY DURING THE 7 YEARS WAR

TOOK SILESIA FROM AUSTRIADOUBLED THE POPULATION BY

CONQUEST ADDING 3,000,000 PEOPLE POPULATION 6,000,000 WITH AN

ARMY OF 200,000 CHAMPION OF RELIGIOUS

FREEDOM(BUILDING A MOSQUE IN POTSDAM

ADDED INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY TO PRUSSIA

MADE PRUSSIA THE DOMINANT MILITARY FORCE ON THE CONTINENT

PRUSSIA 1748-1772

SAN SOUCI PALACE

ENTRANCEHALL

THE OVID ROOM

MUSICROOM

ARTGALLERY

VOLTAIRE’S ROOM

THELIBRARY

FREDERICK II THE GREATS

TOMBAT SAN SOUCI