Friedrich

Life and beginnings

Frederick II was born on January 24, 1712, and died on August 17, 1786. He was monarch of Prussia from 1740 until that death. He was the last Hohenzollern titled King in Prussia. After he annexed Royal Prussia from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772, he declared himself King of Prussia. The two titles are not a translator’s whim. King in Prussia is the title he inherited. King of Prussia is the title he took at the partition. The guide calls him Friedrich the Great and starts from the apparent contradiction of his youth: more interested in art and literature than in war, then, on the throne, a theorist with a taste for Prussian aggression. The biography says the same clash in a more specific way. As prince he preferred music and philosophy, and he fought his father, Frederick William I. The war came after the accession, not instead of the flute.^{[1] [3]}

The published Prussia essay is the longer state: a kingdom from 1701, a gate ordered in 1788, a confederation in 1866, an empire proclaimed in 1871. Friedrich died in 1786. He is inside that kingdom and outside that gate. Reading him as the man who built the Brandenburg Gate, or as the founder of the German Empire, uses the civilization’s name and drops his dates.^[1]

Defining achievements

On the throne he attacked and annexed the Austrian province of Silesia in 1742. The biography calls that the start of his military acclaim and calls him an influential theorist whose writing came from battlefield experience and covered strategy, tactics, mobility, and logistics. Prussia grew in territory and became a major military power in Europe under him. The Silesian wars, the reorganization of the army, and the First Partition of Poland are the accomplishments the lead names. This essay does not turn those wars into a list of battles it has not opened. The partition is the same 1772 act that changed his royal title.^[1]

The arts have a building. Sanssouci, at Potsdam near Berlin, was his summer palace, often counted among the German rivals of Versailles and much smaller. It is in an intimate Rococo style, not the French Baroque it is compared with. Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff designed and built it between 1745 and 1747, as a private house where Frederick could escape ceremony. The guide’s second persona is named Baroque. The palace page calls the house Rococo and uses Baroque for the French counterpart it is not. A persona label and an architectural sentence are not the same word.^{[2] [3]}

Legacy and interpretation

The legacy is a king who enlarged a kingdom and a palace built to leave the court. “Frederick the Great” and “Old Fritz” are later nicknames on the biography page. The guide uses the greatness as the frame and then splits him into a base-game military persona and a deluxe arts persona. The split matches the biography’s own contrast, youth against throne, and it also simplifies it. He did not become a soldier and stop being a musician. Sanssouci was built during the reign, in the decade of the Silesian wars, not after he retired from them.^{[1] [2] [3]}

He is not the Prussia of 1871. The published essay on the civilization has to keep the gate and the empire, because those are what that file is about. This essay has to keep 1740, 1742, 1745, 1772, and 1786, because those are his. A further-reading link is a door between the two, not a permission to copy the later state’s industrial railroad back onto his summer house.^{[1] [2]}

A closer look

The English persona names are Oblique and Baroque. The Chinese guide uses different headings for the same two slots, and those headings are not the military term “oblique order” or the style name Baroque. The Sanssouci page calls his palace Rococo and uses Baroque for the French counterpart it is not. Both official headings have to stay, because they are the guide’s. Neither heading is a description the palace page will vouch for.^{[2] [3] [4]}

The two language pages also do not agree about the Baroque agenda. The English page raises the relationship for wonders built in the capital and lowers it for buildings there. The Chinese page, which leaves the agenda title in English as Parisian Sensibilities, lowers the relationship for both the wonders and the buildings. This essay does not decide which direction the wonder uses. A relationship rule is not Sanssouci’s plan, and a disagreement between the two guides is not a historical fact about 1747.^{[3] [4]}

In Civilization VII

The base-game persona is Oblique, with the ability Berlin Academy and the agenda To Arms. The Chinese guide names that persona, ability, and agenda in its own words. The English sentence ties new infantry to finishing a technology mastery or constructing a science building. The Chinese sentence used here mentions the science building and does not mention the mastery. The deluxe persona is Baroque, with the ability Hohenfriedberger Marsch. The Chinese guide names that persona and ability in its own words, and it leaves the agenda title in English. The footnote says this second persona is part of the Deluxe Content Pack, included in the Deluxe and Founders editions, absent from the Standard edition, and sold separately only if the base game is owned. Those are edition statements. They are not yields, and the yields are not copied here.^{[3] [4]}

The published Prussia essay is the kingdom, the gate, and the later empire. Friedrich’s death in 1786 comes before the gate was ordered. The first step back from the two personas is to keep King in Prussia and King of Prussia apart, and to keep Rococo Sanssouci apart from a persona named Baroque.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}