The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing . the emperor. The capital of this county Hohen- was Berlin. It so happened that a number of zollernsof^ Branden- Counts of Brandenburg, of the family of burg Hohenzollern, had been men of ambition and ability. The little county had grown by adding small territories around it, as shown on the map on page 99. One of these counts, called the Great Elector, had added to Brandenburg the greater part of the neighboring county of Pomerania. His son did not have the ability of his father, but was a very proud and vain man. He happened to vis
The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing . the emperor. The capital of this county Hohen- was Berlin. It so happened that a number of zollernsof^ Branden- Counts of Brandenburg, of the family of burg Hohenzollern, had been men of ambition and ability. The little county had grown by adding small territories around it, as shown on the map on page 99. One of these counts, called the Great Elector, had added to Brandenburg the greater part of the neighboring county of Pomerania. His son did not have the ability of his father, but was a very proud and vain man. He happened to visit King William III ^^ of England, and was very much offended interview because during the interview, the king occupied results a comfortable arm chair, while the elector, being simply a count, was given a chair to sit in which was straight-backed and had no arms. Brooding over this insult, as it seemed to him, he went home and decided that he too should be called a king. The question was, what should his title be. He could not call himself 96 The Story of. FREDERICK TUE GREAT King of Brandenburg, for Brandenburg waspart of the Empire, and the emperor wouldnot allow it. It had happened some one hun-dred years before, that, through his marriage The Map of Europe 97 with the daughter of the Duke of Prussia, aCount of Brandenburg had come into possessionof the district known as East Prussia, at theextreme southeastern corner of the Baltic this and the territory of Brandenburglay the district known as West Prussia, whichwas part of the Kingdom of Poland, However,Prussia lay outside the boundaries of the Empire,and the emperor had nothing to say about whatwent on there. Therefore, the elector sent . nil- -^ ^®^ notice to all the kmgs and princes of Europe kingdomthat after this he was to be known as theKing of Prussia. It was a situation some-what like the one we have already referred to,when the kings of England were independentmonarchs and yet subjects of the kings of
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