After Christianization, the Roman Catholic Church and local rulers led German expansion and settlement in areas inhabited by Slavs and Balts, known as Ostsiedlung. During the wars waged in the Baltic by the Catholic German Teutonic Knights; the lands inhabited by the ethnic group of the Old Prussians (the current reference to the people known then simply as the "Prussians"), were conquered by the Germans. The Old Prussians were an ethnic group related to the Latvian and Lithuanian Baltic peoples. The former German state of Prussia took its name from the Baltic Prussians, although it was led by Germans who had assimilated the Old Prussians; the old Prussian language was extinct by the 17th or early 18th century. The Slavic people of the Teutonic-controlled Baltic were assimilated into German culture and eventually there were many intermarriages of Slavic and German families, including amongst the Prussia's aristocracy known as the Junkers. Prussian military strategist Karl von Clausewitz is a famous German whose surname is of Slavic origin. Massive German settlement led to the assimilation of Baltic (Old Prussians) and Slavic (Wends) populations, who were exhausted by previous warfare. COUNT 10
QSN1 The Expansion of Germany  by the Catholic Church into the areas of the Slavs and balts is know as what? ANS1 Ostsiedlung QSN2 What was the name of the group that waged war in the Baltic? ANS2 Catholic German Teutonic Knights QSN3 Who was the Old Prussians ethnic group related to? ANS3 Latvian and Lithuanian Baltic peoples QSN4 Although conquered the Persian language lived on till when? ANS4 17th or early 18th century QSN5 Who is a famous German that  name has Slavic origins? ANS5 Karl von Clausewitz QSN6 When was the Prussian language extinct? ANS6 17th or early 18th century QSN7 What happened to the Slavic people of the Baltic? ANS7 were assimilated into German culture QSN8 Who led the German expansion? ANS8 the Roman Catholic Church and local rulers QSN9 What famous German military strategist has a name with Slavic origin? ANS9 Karl von Clausewitz QSN10 What let to the assimilation of Baltic and Slavic populations? ANS10 Massive German settlement