leader to make the strong army. The army was almost a group of mercenaries, they were very strong and hard to beat. Then later Frederick William I made the army even bigger, to ensure that nobody would be able to challenge them. After winning a few wars their name grew, and people feared them. Then in 1871 all of the German states, except Austria gathered at the hall of Mirrors, at the Place of Versailles. They got together and announced Wilhelm I of Prussia as German Emperor, this all happened after the Franco-Prussian War. But sometimes Germany and Prussia being one was a problem, there were different languages, and religions, people wanted to stay in their culture without having another one everywhere. After a while everybody was getting used to the new cultures mixing, and the tension came down. The leaders of Prussia didn't do much to help the religious tensions. If I would've been the leader of Prussia at this time things would've been so much different. I first would've Made different churches, that the different people thought were better for their beliefs. Then I would've made churches, that had some of both religion in it, so that some people could try something new, and make friends with the different people, this would've helped a lot with tension among groups, it would've also made it better because the people from the different groups could help others from different groups become friends. this would also help with the two groups hating each other, if they saw that people from the groups can be together in church they might try it out. Next I would've made sure there was a punishment for fighting among people groups.
This would've helped make sure that not as fights would happen. When people in your kingdom can never agree on what they want to do, you will always be a little bit weaker then if they agreed. I also would've made sure that people that helped me make decisions were from both groups, so that we could find a solution that would try to keep fighting down, If people kept on fighting, I would have to make the punishment more severe then it was before, just because your don't agree with someone on something doesn't mean you can disrupt peace by hurting them, or scaring little
kids. I also would've made sure that the military was very strong, it was very strong before, but their empire was much smaller then, so now with a much bigger area to protect, the military would have to be much stronger. If the leader showed that he cared by making the military bigger, people might try to thank him by keeping war outside of the empire, not among the people. As you can see, Prussia was once a huge empire, that many people feared, they had amazing military strength, many different people groups, and it had many different leaders, that all had a chance to make it stronger and better. Then I told the names and ages of some of the leaders that once rules Prussia, next I told about the ceremony where Prussia and Germany became one, and last I told about many of the problems Prussia had, and what I might have done to change some of them if I had been the leader.