Western Civilization I / Unit 11 WC1 1009 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Northern Crusades and the Teutonic State
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The idea
From eleven seventy-one popes authorized crusades against the pagan Baltic. The Teutonic Knights, founded about eleven ninety at Acre, turned north in the twelve twenties, the witness's chronology, and ruled Prussia and Livonia as a theocratic state of monk-knights.
In practice
Prussia as a future core of Germany.
Where people slip
The anchor's chronology garbles the century. Twelfth is thirteenth.
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