In this video, we look at Prussia, and explain what exactly it was, and how it fit into history.
Picture sources: By User:52 Pickup - Based on map data of the IEG-Maps project (Andreas Kunz, B. Johnen and Joachim Robert Moeschl: University of Mainz) — http://www.ieg-maps.uni-mainz.de, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... By MapMaster - Own work based on: a map by Marija Gimbutas, published in The Balts (1963) LCC 63018018. Available at Vaidilute.com. In addition to Gimbutas, other maps were also consulted:"Libiesi Citu Senas Latvijas Cilsu Vidu" (Livonians and other tribes of ancient Latvia 10th - 12th centuries) A map from the Latvijas Enciklopedja[dead link]Map at Emokykla.LTAnother map at Emokykla.LT, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... By Ivo Kruusamägi - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... By Артур Орльонов - http://www.history-ua.org/gallery/sho..., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... By Sir IainThis W3C-unspecified vector image was created with Inkscape. - Main source:"Deutschland: 1618-1648", in: Josef Engel (ed.), Grosser Historischer Weltatlas, herausgegeben vom Bayerischen Schulbuch-Verlag: Dritter Teil, Neuzeit, Munich and Tübingen, 1967, p. 122.Other sources:"Hessen-Kassel und Hessen-Darmstadt 1604-1638", in: Geschichtlicher Atlas von Hessen, url: http://www.lagis-hessen.de/de/subject..."Hessen-Kassel in Nordwestdeutschland", in: Geschichtlicher Atlas von Hessen, url: http://www.lagis-hessen.de/de/subject..."Braunsweich-Lüneburg im Jahre 1625", in: Gudrun Pischke (ed.), Geschichtlicher Handatlas von Niedersachsen, Neumünster, 1989, p. 35b.Carsten Porskorg Rasmussen (ed.), Die Fürsten des Landes: Herzöge und Grafen von Schleswig, Holstein und Lauenburg, Neumünster, 2008, p. 21., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... By ziegelbrenner (talk • contribs) - Own work, source of Information: Putzger – Historischer Weltatlas, 89. Auflage, 1965, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... By Bryan Rutherford - Own work, based on File:Europe 1748-1766 en.png, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... By ziegelbrenner - own drawing/Source of Information: Putzger – Historischer Weltatlas, 89. Auflage, 1965; Westermanns Großer Atlas zur Weltgeschichte, 1969; Haacks geographischer Atlas. VEB Hermann Haack Geographisch-Kartographische Anstalt, Gotha/Leipzig, 1. Auflage, 1979., CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... By ziegelbrenner, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... By ziegelbrenner - own drawing/Source of Information: Putzger – Historischer Weltatlas, 89. Auflage, 1965, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...