HY 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Russia-2, Russia-1, Serfdom
26 Aug 2016
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Other examples of european absolutism: prussia, where it is, and why that matters. He is the great elector because he beat the swedish army in june. Is prussia easy to defend? (williams main problem) Prussia not wealthy (poor, spread out, not going to get rich off resources) The great recess 1663 summoning and dismissing the. -frederick gets the rights to collect a certain amount of money forever (impose a certain amount of tax in the towns, minus the nobility) - he uses this to train 6,000 soldiers. - his army cannot win (prussia army will lose) - helps prussia not get attacked because telling the victors that they will have a price to pay. - we will tear the arm off an invader. Generalkreigscommissariat fredericks attempt to keep the army from being a pack of locusts that descend on the land and eat everything in sight.
