I have been intrested in eastern european history recently and Poland seems quite intresting but I'm having a hard time with finding their contributment to the European culture apart from people that lived in exile such as Chopin and Marie Curie.
I guess the Lithuanians do count too seeing that they have been in an union.
Can you enlighten me /his/?
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Jan Pawel
>>2747424
elective monarchy gave ideas for how constitutional a constitutional is before just a group of nobles
reformed cavalry ideas
good music
https://youtu.be/Vl6zMiW3iwQ
https://youtu.be/qZKliJgxUTI
https://youtu.be/7SpddNW7a3k
https://youtu.be/fzvxz8L_hg4
Lithuanians were just meatshields and cossack fodder
Shame they let Prussia happen, should have just killed the first duke of prussia for betryaing his oaths
Best mayonnaise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DxOdT2JHjc
>>2747424
The contained jews pretty well
>>2747459
Teutonic Order had strong support from HRE and Pope. They couldn't just annex them.
those weird song remixes about john paul 2 on youtube
>>2747424
the removal of kebabs
>>2748160
>>2747453
>>2747424
>Stefan Banach was a Polish mathematician who is generally considered one of the world's most important and influential 20th-century mathematicians.
The fork.
>>2747424
Vodka
>>2747424
So they didn't modernize an shit, because they did not adopt the barracks styled professional armies of the west, apparently war evolution gave rise to more stable environments for philosophical truths an shit, western organization led to mass production of goods, which allowed western peoples to satisfy their lower needs an shit better than pollacks, this allowed western peoples to grow academically seeing that their lower needs and that was satisfied to a higher degree an shit.
There is no "European Culture" you faggot. There's polish culture, German culture, French culture, and plenty of others. Stop acting like Europe is a unified entity when until recently they were fighting all the time.
>>2748181
>Removes Kebab and Contains the Kraut
Based Poland
>>2748719
Still, a relatively unified intellectually culture arguably rose in Western Europe in the late middle ages and Poland could be said to be roughly its border on the Northeast. But as usual, peripheral regions don't contribute as much unless they're exceptional in some way.