Faatumu le fuaiupu lenei: O le ʻafa lona lua o le senituri lona 17 na faataatia ai le faavae mo Prussia ina ia avea ma se tasi o vaega tāua i faiga faapolotiki a Europa. O le malosiʻaga o le militeli a Brandenburg-Prussian, e faavae i le faatomuaga o se autau tumau i le 1653, na faailogaina e ala i manumalo lauiloa i Warsaw (1656) ma
Fehrbellin (1675) ma le Great Sleigh Drive (1678). Na faavaeina foʻi e Brandenburg-Prussia se ʻautau a Siamani ma kolone i le Brandenburger Gold Coast ma Arguin. O Frederick William, ua taʻua o le "The Great Elector", na tatalaina Brandenburg-Prussia i le tele o tagata faimalaga ("Peuplierung") o le tele o tagata sulufaʻi Porotesano mai Europa atoa ("Exulanten"), aemaise lava le Huguenot immigration ina ua maeʻa le Tulafono a Potsdam. Na amata foʻi ona tuufaatasia e Frederick William le pulega a Brandenburg-Prussia, ma faaitiitia ai le aafiaga o setete.