Question

With reference to the unification of Germany, which of the following statements is/are incorrect?
1. Prussia is considered to be the state that is the precursor to a united German state.
2. It was located on the north of the Baltic Sea.

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Answer 1

In the 1860s, Otto von Bismarck, then Minister President of Prussia, provoked three short, decisive wars against Denmark, Austria, and France, aligning the smaller German states behind Prussia in its defeat of France. In 1871 he unified Germany into a nation-state, forming the German Empire.It was located on the South-eastern coast of Baltic Sea.