How did they manage to stay pagan for so long?

>>2112681
Isolation from Germaniggers and out of the sphere of Rome/Constantinople

Hellenism survived in isolated areas of Greece right up to the 10th century.

>>2112723
>Isolation from Germaniggers
Are you retarded?

>>2112681
>Holy
>Roman
>Empire
why is it written that way?

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>>2112736
fuck

>>2112681
>How did they manage to stay pagan for so long?
Militarized irrelevance.
When your irrelevance is so high, its a defense mechanism.

>shitty frozen Baltic wasteland
>populated by ooga-booga tribes

Who the fuck even wanted it aside from some butthurt Crusaders who had gotten kicked out of the holy land?

>>2112811
>>2112819
t. Ulrich Von Jungingen

>>2112681
Too little stuff to steal.

>>2112681
Germans just fail at everything they do. It's in their genes

>>2112736
I've heard claims that asatru survived in the nordic countries in the same manner up to the 18th century

>>2112811

They were relevant enough to trouble Poland

>>2112965
Teutonic Order was invited during the most decentralised period in Poland's history - before that Poles preferred fighting with Germans and the Rus, given invading backwaters isn't worth the effort.

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>>2113107
True

>>2112681
Who?

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>>2112681
Crusaders are fucking autists. Enduring 200 years of constant assault just because some jew died on a cross makes no fucking sense

>>2113237
It was all just an excuse to unite and try to fight off militaristic arabs in the end

>>2113274
>arabs hadn't attacked europe in centuries
>the crusades were a defense against arabs

wut

>>2113296

Yeah, because they were busy getting BTFO by the Turkic slave soldiers they brought in.

>>2113309
Do you know anything about near and middle eastern history? Like at all?

>>2113320

What did I say that was wrong? The Arabs hadn't pushed into the Byzantine empire because the Caliphate collapsed in the 9th century while the Byzantines were regaining their strength. Not to mention those newly fragmented arabs states were getting taken over by the Seljuks in the 10th century. What did I say that was wrong?

>>2112681
Price of being an irrelevant, illiterate backwater.

>>2113138
>first Polish state battle is defeat at hands of Germans
>its earliest Poland documented date
>Communist had use country Baptism date for 1000 anniversary instead

>>2114181
It was only a raid.

>>2112736
And the Roman identity still existed in isolated Aegean islands until the 1910s.

Culture takes a long time to die.

>>2113296
Arabs had de-irrigated the classical civilazations left behind, invaded not only spain, but had continual pressure put upon the Byzantine empire. Arab invasions are massive. Not only that, but they've dominated trade routes through piracy throughout the middle ages making trade for European countries near impossible. Plus their slave trade raids were near never ending. The crusades were absolutely necessary to slow their expansion so Western civilization could flourish.

Its literally a fucking wasteland no one gave a shit.

>>2112790
Turks truly do ruin everything

>>2112790
Fucking Roaches ruining dank fire clan.

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>>2113138
As expected from Pepiks. Fuckin kraut cock suckers since beginning of time