Charles XII porta first Sweden
Charles XII porta first Sweden-Finland at the highest level of power, to rush them into the decadence. He influence to an Oriental despotism to absolutism had established his father, Charles XI, in this country traditionally attached to its freedoms: it epuisa all the resources of the Swedish State in a desperate effort to keep the empire Baltic founded by Gustave Adolphe. The Sweden to the advent of Charles XII High in the camps by his father, he enthusiasm from reading stories and tales of warriors, such as the Life of Alexander Quinte-Curce and sagas Scandinavian, and the memory of the epic Grand Gustave and its masters during the Thirty Years’ War. Dreaming of becoming a hero in turn, he sought glory in the career of weapons, the most prestigious in this society based on race and the sword. It focused with violence at all physical exercises, the hunting of bears, in order to forge and the body of a paladin North insensitive to the weather, and acquire a stoicism to the ancient. In a closed and secretive nature, he did entrusted person; at the Lutheran the deep faith, the doctrine of predestination reinforced the belief in destiny.
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