The Teutonic Knights! That's how I got started. I was founded back in uhh...
[Hang on. Let her think.]
1190 as a hospitalier order. But the Pope -- he was my religious leader, wore the biggest hat, called all the shots -- he pretty much let me do whatever I wanted. So I went north! Conquered the land that had been held by the Old Prussians, took their land for my own! That's how I started to be known as Prussia.
You know, they used to say that "most countries have an army. Prussia is an army that has a country."
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Date: 2017-08-12 03:52 am (UTC)[Hang on. Let her think.]
1190 as a hospitalier order. But the Pope -- he was my religious leader, wore the biggest hat, called all the shots -- he pretty much let me do whatever I wanted. So I went north! Conquered the land that had been held by the Old Prussians, took their land for my own! That's how I started to be known as Prussia.
You know, they used to say that "most countries have an army. Prussia is an army that has a country."