Cika wannan jumlar: Rabin rabin karni na 17 ya kafa tushe ga Prussia don zama ɗaya daga cikin manyan 'yan wasa a siyasar Turai. Ƙarfin soja na Brandenburg-Prussian, bisa ga gabatar da rundunar soja a shekara ta 1653, an nuna shi ne ta hanyar nasarar da aka samu a cikin
Warsaw (1656) da Fehrbellin (1675) da kuma Babban Sleigh Drive (1678). Brandenburg-Prussia kuma ta kafa rundunar sojan ruwa da yankunan Jamus a cikin Gold Coast na Brandenburg da Arguin. Frederick William, wanda aka fi sani da "Babban Zabe", ya buɗe Brandenburg-Prussia zuwa ƙaura mai yawa ("Peuplierung") na yawancin 'yan gudun hijirar Furotesta daga ko'ina cikin Turai ("Exulanten"), musamman ƙaura na Huguenot bayan Dokar Potsdam. Frederick William kuma ya fara karfafa tsarin Brandenburg-Prussia da kuma rage tasirin dukiya.