Question 2: The
combination of taxation by the nobility, the furor of the ________, and the
abrupt secularization of the Teutonic Order's remaining Prussian
lands exacerbated peasant unrest.
Question 3: John Sigismund's son, George William,
was successfully invested with the duchy in 1623 by the king of
Poland, ________, thus the
personal union Brandenburg-Prussia was
confirmed.
Question 5: Because Ducal Prussia was ostensibly a ________ land, authorities travelled
throughout the duchy ensuring that Lutheran teachings were being
followed and imposing penalties on pagans and dissidents.
Question 6: Despite
his Protestant creed, Albert was greatly aided by his older brother
George, Margrave of
Brandenburg-Ansbach, who had already earlier established
Protestant religion in his territories of ________ and Upper Silesia.
Question 7: The
Kingdom of Prussia, then consisting of East and West Prussia, being
a sovereign state, and Brandenburg, being a fief within the ________, were only amalgamated legally after the latter's
dissolution in 1806.
Question 8: Full sovereignty was a necessary prerequisite for
upgrading Ducal Prussia to become the sovereign ________, not to be confused with Polish Royal Prussia, in
1701.
Question 9: Albert also found himself
reliant on support from his Jagiellonian uncle Sigismund I of Catholic
Poland, as the ________ and the Roman Catholic Church had banned him for
his Protestantism.
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