Western Civilization II / Unit 3 WC2 0216 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Charles XII and the Great Northern War, 1700 to 1721
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The idea
Charles XII of Sweden, self-crowned, was absolutism's paragon in the anchor's phrase. Denmark, Saxony and Russia attacked in seventeen hundred; he beat Peter at Narva, turned on Poland, then lost his army at Poltava in seventeen-oh-nine.
In practice
Killed in Norway, seventeen eighteen; the Baltic ceded at Nystad, seventeen twenty-one.
Where people slip
The anchor's Sweden ruling Denmark and Norway is not voiced.
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