stackyFACTSTaking a vow of poverty and chastity usually means a quiet life of prayer, unless you're a Teutonic Knight. This military order essentially carved out their own sovereign state in the Baltic region through sheer force, operating a heavily militarized theocracy where armored warrior-monks ran the economy and violently expanded their borders.
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