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within months of Frederick's rule he takes over the resource rich province of Silesia. but leaded to conflict with Austria which lead to the war of Austrian succession
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This picture is of the Battle of Hohenfriedberg. Here the Prussians charged the Austrians leading in a decisive victory. There were many other victories after this leading to Prussia gaining more territory.
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Frederick made attempts to boost the economy by limiting the money that went out of the country in hopes of increasing the amount that came in.
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With this Partition Prussia gained West Prussia, giving the state more territorial coherence and frontiers became easier to defend for them. Also Brandenburg and Pomerania became linked to east Prussia
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this map shows how much progress Prussia had made because of Frederick.
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When Frederick first became king of Prussia it was a rather small and economically depressed state with about an army of about 83,000 men and when he died the army had 190,000 and a good economy.
