Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I whakatakotoria e te haurua tuarua o te rau tau 17 te pūtake mō Prussia kia noho hei tētahi o ngā kaitākaro nui i roto i te tōrangapū o Ūropi. Ko te kaha o te ope taua a Brandenburg-Prussian, i runga i te whakauru o te ope taua i te tau 1653, i tohuhia e nga wikitoria rongonui i Warsaw (1656)
me Fehrbellin (1675) me te Great Sleigh Drive (1678). I whakapumautia ano e Brandenburg-Prussia he kaipuke moana me nga koroni Tiamana i te Brandenburger Gold Coast me Arguin. Ko Frederick William, e mohiotia ana ko "The Great Elector", i whakatuwherahia a Brandenburg-Prussia ki te manene nui ("Peuplierung") o te nuinga o nga rerenga Porotetani mai i Uropi katoa ("Exulanten"), ko te nuinga o nga manene Huguenot whai muri i te Edict o Potsdam. I timata a Frederick William ki te whakahaere i te whakahaere a Brandenburg-Prussia me te whakaiti i te mana o nga whenua.