How Did Prussia Become a Great Power? | Frederick the Great & Enlightened Despotism

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From humble beginnings, the Kingdom of Prussia came to be synonymous with military might. Voltaire called it "the army with a state." Prussia's rise began with the union of Brandenburg and Ducal Prussia in 1618, but it didn't become a Great Power until over a century later. Under Frederick the Great, Prussia ballooned in size, but far from being a common warlord, 'Der alte Fritz' was a man of the Enlightenment who brought Prussia into the modern age.
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@Veriox22 Год назад

the rise of prussia really was a miracle. from a vassal to poland and a desolate swamp, to the unifier of germany. very well made video.

@myhonorwasloyalty Год назад

Poland never existed

@jojospice3353 Год назад

Prussia wasn't even german in the beginning. It was originally a Baltic country

@sebe2255 Год назад

@@jojospice3353 The lands of Prussia were, but the kingdom of Prussia in the video was obviously always Germanic (with Significant polish population)

@pedanticradiator1491 Год назад

@@myhonorwasloyalty never heard of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?

@granockss9548 Год назад

@@jojospice3353 Prussia roots lies in Brandenburg, not the native pruß.

@Gorboduc Год назад

Frederick's balance between "enlightened" and "despot" is best illustrated by his attitude to freedom of speech: "My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please."

@absboodoo 5 месяцев назад

I love his "carefree" attitude regarding most contemporary value of the time.

@ThorstenStaerk 4 месяца назад

@@absboodoo if there had been more "carefree" monarchs, how good the world would look like now :)

@AntoineELismysalvation 4 месяца назад

How prussia got so big? By leeching of Holy Roman Empire and Poland Lithiania Rzeczpospolita.

@jemalo36 Год назад

The Prussian kings truly managed to build breathtaking cities. Potsdam is an expression of local styles, with French and Italian palaces and villas, Romanesque city planing, as well as Russian- and Dutch architecture. One cannot help but be overwhelmed by the awe-inspiring beauty of this city.

@luckyluciano1584 Год назад

You should make a video about how the Dutch survived the Holland war

@thommyneter168 Год назад

What is the Holland war? I'm from the Netherlands but I'm not aware of a war with that name

@TerrierMartello Год назад

@Thom Hendriks: The Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678). The Dutch language Wikipedia page lists it as "De Hollandse Oorlog," which translates to "The Holland War." Franco-Dutch War: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Dutch_War Hollandse Oorlog: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollandse_Oorlog

@LookBackHistory Год назад

The French invasion under Louis XIV? Maybe!

@SchmulKrieger Год назад

@@TerrierMartello right after the Netherlanders left the Holy Roman Empire to form an own imperial Empire.

@sebe2255 Год назад

@@SchmulKrieger Not an Imperial one

@samdaman2939 Год назад

This is amazing. I'm still suprised you have less subs than you should. You clearly take time when it comes to these videos and focus on knowledge to teach others what you know. Keep up these videos. They are amazing.

@LookBackHistory Год назад

Thanks, that's the goal!

@zoomerboomer1396 Год назад

Yt Historian about Bismarck:"A disciple of Fredicks school of cold pragmatism" Meanwhile Bismarck:"I'M THROWING MYSELF OUT OF THE WINDOW IF I DON'T GET MY WAY"

@LookBackHistory Год назад

Lol, I was thinking more in regards to foriegn affairs.

@akashpatro9393 28 дней назад

One could say he threatened to defenestrate himself

@tahamuhammad1814 Год назад

Napoleon was Corsican Hitler was Austrian Stalin was Georgian See a pattern?

@thelvadam2884 Год назад

Hitler very much was german , many German speaking people viewed themself as germans not austrians , and also really just were germans. Prussia , Austria , Bavaria etc all are german , just not always have been part of germany.

@tahamuhammad1814 Год назад

@@thelvadam2884 when did I say Hitler wasn't german, I just said that he was originally Austrian.

@vetarlittorf1807 4 месяца назад

Austrians ARE Germans. For the same reason Bavarians are Germans.

@thebestteacher7466 19 дней назад

Napoleon is Franch

@tahamuhammad1814 19 дней назад

@thebestteacher7466 Nah Corsica had recently been bought by France (when Napolean was born) and the people weren't French ethnically nor culturally and resented French rule forming the Corsican republic

@garvjuice2 Год назад

finallly someone explains this, i have been tryna find a video like this

@LookBackHistory Год назад

Happy to help!

@Kackpuh Год назад

"He ran the kingdom well enough, though." Possibly the greatest understatement of the century. Friedrich Wilhelm I. pretty much built Prussia and laid all the foundations of it. As well as building upon those. Friedrich II. mostly just used what his father provided, even though he used it well.

@sebe2255 Год назад

I wouldn’t say he used it well. He was in a completely hopeless situation and was even willing to cede east prussia to Russia just to make peace with them. He got incredibly lucky with the Tsarina dying and her Prussiaboo son taking over. If that hadn’t happened he would have been a complete failure

@WhompWhomp-e3e Год назад

i love your work keep doing this great job !!!!! btw video idea :what was the opinion of britain to monarchies becoming republics (or the monarchs of britain)

@LookBackHistory Год назад

Good question! Definitely an interesting topic.

@JaydenNunez_2024 Год назад

3:53 - his conquest of Silesia during the war was probably his most impactful military victory. 4:25 - concluding the treaty with Maria Theresa that saw Silesia ceded to him in 1742. 4:39 - 1741, the 1745 battles of Hohenfriedberg and Soor proved the power of Frederick’s cold analytical style of leadership. 5:08 - Acquiring Silesia was a game changer. It was the largest expansion made by the Hohenzollern dynasty to that point, increasing Frederick’s subjects by 50% and his state revenue by a third.

@thelvadam2884 Год назад

thank you for making this Video ! Frederick the great / Friedrich Der Große , is often very much underrated, with Prussia rose to great power status , and that is what made it even possible to at the end unify Germany in the long run.

@balabanasireti Год назад

Underrated 🤓

@sebe2255 Год назад

I think he is very overrated. He got his country involved in a war they couldn’t win, and only managed to succeed because of pure luck (Tsarina’s death and Peter III being a prussiaboo

@thelvadam2884 Год назад

@Sean Baggen he didn't even start that war tho.....

@sebe2255 Год назад

@@thelvadam2884 Didn’t say he did

@juliusvillalon6816 7 месяцев назад

Frederick the great is the real life Gustavo Fring

@thedisastrouslifeofnikocad9857 16 дней назад

what a comparison

@anti-spiral159 Год назад

Great video, I hope you rise and collaborate with other youtubers!

@axelven8080 Год назад

U should do a video on Tuetons and livnonians and Kazkhstan

@Kackpuh Год назад

One further correction: Friedrich II didn't see himself as "personification of the state", that would be other absolute monarchs, he saw himself as the first servant of his state, appointed to this position by God (yes, you still can see his deep religiousness). The difference wasn't the "God" part but the "who is here to serve whom" part.

@georgemx4136 19 дней назад

Do a similar video about the dutch empire and golden age please

@achour.falestine Год назад

0:17 bro really deleted the ottomans out of the map

@jtgd Год назад

I mean he also didn’t highlight Poland

@TheAustrianAnimations87 Год назад

Other great powers weren't shown on the map either, but that's because they weren't so important.

@achour.falestine Год назад

@@TheAustrianAnimations87 oh I'am sorry I didn't mean the map but when he was counting them

@someonethatlikesyou7713 Год назад

the great powers of europe were austria,russia,france and great Britain the ottomans in the other hand they have been declined like polish-lithuania

@CliffCardi Год назад

When a Prussia Fanboy suddenly becomes the Russian Czar just when your army is about to collapse on 3 fronts

@jtgd Год назад

Can you make a video on why Prussia, rather than Bavaria ?

@ellidominusser1138 Год назад

Prussia was militaristic and expansionist as a result of reforms in the 17th and 18th century which were caused by the 30 years war in 1618-48 that destroyed germany and half it's population. Basically, some guy made Prussia a Military with a state, and no other german state was as eager or had as strong of an army as the prussians. Bavaria just wasn't militaristic

@sebe2255 Год назад

Bavaria was an underdeveloped agricultural region

@emilianohermosilla3996 Год назад

Look back history’s always so great! Hahah

@djinnglebells241 Год назад

2:40 “possible lover” tbh probably lover is more accurate. You can joke about how gay Fred G was but a lot of the things we’d call gay today were aristocratic standard then. The only thing we can say was out of the norm was he liked hot dogs more than hamburgers, at least judging by stories of how he interacted w/ his wife.

@historian252 Год назад

Nah it really wasn't.

@Argacyan 5 месяцев назад

There's some things people today call gay which were standard then, but most of what they did together was gay back then. It's wasn't aristocratic standard, that's why they executed his love & Friedrich's life too was up in the air, in terms of punishment in that moment.

@thorpeaaron1110 Год назад

You should definitely do a video on the Belgian Revolution.

@abdullahdaniyal114 Год назад

Prussia was just pure Gigachad state.

@mrkalaspuff_3866 Год назад

Video idea/Video suggestion: Rise of the ottomans

@natheriver8910 2 месяца назад

Very interesting

@colindaniels945 4 месяца назад

As I recall, the partitions of Poland were suggested by Russia as a way to appease Austria and Prussia. See, Austria and Prussia were growing nervous/concerned about Russia's increasing influence in the Ottoman Empire, nevermind all the territory they were taking from it.

@jesuschrist2268 Год назад

2:19 based

@Megalodon_Megumer Год назад

Make more videos about Romania

@micahistory Год назад

nice video

@papazataklaattiranimam Год назад

Pussia👀

@علي-ش7ث8ب Год назад

Gog and Magog.

@ordomachinum4016 Год назад

Fredrick the second was a G

@Shi4Shi Год назад

Simple terms: A shit ton of Frederick The Greats.

@jpj77263 Год назад

Not perfect, but I have seen much worse, e.g. from Extra History. Keep it up!

@GreenPoint_one Год назад

I wanna bring back the old glory of prussia even if that takes a 1000 years

@thedyingpictureproductions2304 Год назад

So, what's your citation for Frederick's view of being a philosopher king? Or is that your opinion on what a philosopher king is? Cuz either way that is an extremely skewed and, basically, utterly false interpretation of Plato's philosopher king.

@LookBackHistory Год назад

You're of course entitled to your opinion. My primary source for this video was a book containing a collection of quotes from Frederick, listed in the description.

@haslamabad_ Год назад

based gay man

@jemalo36 Год назад

Ja, this is how we Berlin-Brandenburgers see our local hero v:

@scibanana3542 Год назад

By making France not great

@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0 Год назад

It got saved by the russian empire by destroying napoleon's army

@Ciech_mate Год назад

Prussia was a German colony like Australia is to Britain

@LookBackHistory Год назад

Uhh, you're gonna have to explain that one to me.

@Ciech_mate Год назад

@@LookBackHistory they moved to Prussia from modern west Germany. Killed the inhabitants and took the resourses. They don't belong there as much as whites don't belong in for example SA. By don't belong, I mean aren't native to that region. They conquered the native people.

@JohnSmith-zs9vr Год назад

Nah, I would rather compare Prussia to British India. The British East Indian Company was so strong that it managed to colonise a faraway indian region all by itself, acting there independently from the United Kingdom. And so it created a faraway base which eventually became a pivotal part for the entirety of Britain. Just like Prussia (the actual one, excluding Brandenburg): a region once colonised by the german Teutonic Knights who acted there all on their own, independently from the Holy Roman Empire. Although it's more accurate to say that this colony was only East Prussia. West Prussia was a polish region briefly conquered by the Teutonic Knights striking at Poland from East Prussia.

@sebe2255 Год назад

@@LookBackHistoryProbably because it was actually settled by various Germanic people from the Holy Roman as it was initially Slavic and Baltic

@Argacyan 5 месяцев назад

@@sebe2255 The population of the region changed over the ages, and "initially" very much included first East Germanic tribes and later north germaic Scandianvians as well as west germanic people. The idea of selling the region as "slavic and baltic" was a Cold War era addage to sell ethnic cleansing easier - and it succeeded in doing so. That is with it being the case that yes, later during the early modern period settlers were invited from western europe, mostly the HRE but going as far west as Scottish immigrants settling in the area. Most slavs in this place, especially today, have less of a history with any relationship whatsoever than the Germanic people who used to live in the area - the slavic settlers were resettled from Polish areas taken by the Soviet administration & annexed into Ukraine & Belarus.

@dorktriogamer2865 10 месяцев назад

AND THEN THE BASTARDS PUT HIM IN THE GROUND NEXT TO HIS FATHER

@commiecat5879 Год назад

Even the average French peasant can dominate France, and Austria fell over in a stiff breeze so I wouldn’t really call Prussia great. sure briefly influential in Europe but little else.