About the history of Poland

At the turn of the Millennium: the birth of European countries

According to general textbooks, West Rome perished in 476, and then entered the dark ages, which is also the origin of the Middle Ages. In fact, Charlemagne, a Frankish, cooperated with the Holy See to restore the "Roman Empire" about 800 years later. After the collapse of his Carolyn dynasty, European countries appeared today.

After the death of Charlemagne's grandson, the empire was divided into three parts, and the east was later Germanic. In Charlemagne's time, it was still a pagan area, and Charlemagne's many expeditions were aimed at bringing the local Saxons into the territory of the Christian church. Ironically, in 962, it was Otto the Great of the Saxon dynasty, that is, the "Holy Roman Emperor", who replaced the rule of Franks in the east by Charlemagne's descendants, which was the beginning of Germany today. In 987 AD, Hugh Capet, the Earl of Paris and Otto's brother-in-law, was elected as the king of France by the princes of West Frank, replacing the throne of the descendants of Charlemagne there. This is the origin of Faranci.

As early as the middle of the 9th century, the Carolingian dynasty was unable to resist the invasion of the northern European pagan vikings on the coast of western Europe. In 9 1 1 year, the west Frankish king took the measures of barbarians to control foreigners, ceded Normandy Peninsula to a Viking leader, and used him to defend his territory. His descendants grew up gradually. 1066, these christianized "normans" conquered Britain and laid the foundation for Britain today.

The Iberian Peninsula was conquered by Muslims in the 8th century and became a part of the food empire. At that time, no one expected that it would become a member of European culture. However, the change of dynasty within the big food empire led to the birth of the "big food in black" regime in Baghdad, and the original "big food in white" regime in Godova, a Muslim country, declared independence and became the focus of Iberian history. However, after the death of Almansur, the last strongman of the Godova regime in 1002, the historical power of the peninsula began to shift to the remaining Christian countries in the northern mountainous areas. Although their "Restoration Movement" took centuries to complete, the turn of the Millennium was the birth period of Christian Spain and Portugal.

Now let's turn to Eastern Europe. Poland's own national historical tradition set the founding date as 996: 1996, and Mijeshko accepted Christianity on behalf of all his subjects and was baptized directly from the Vatican without going through the Germanic church. All these measures are to avoid being annexed by the powerful neighbor Otto the Great. After paying this price, Poland, as a vassal state of Germany, can become its own country. This arrangement more or less defines the triangular relationship between Poland, Germany and Rome in the next Millennium, and also shows that the relationship between Poland and the Holy See is still very close.

In 972, Otto the Great immediately became the "King of Hungary". Gé za was baptized as a Christian in 985, but he remained a heretic at heart. It was not until his son, King Stephen, succeeded to the throne that the pagan princes were cleaned up in 997, and the rule of Mazar-e was consolidated. 1000, the Pope gave him the "Crown of St. Stephen", which later became a symbol of Hungary, and this was the founding of Hungary.

The Christianization of northern Europeans (Vikings) was late, between 10 and1century (but not last, Lithuanians fell behind in14th century). During the reign of Olaf II of Norway Haraldsen (995- 1030), Norway largely unified Norway, so he was able to spread Christianity throughout the country. Denmark was unified by Harold Bluetooth around 980. At about the same time, he decided to convert to Christianity. Sweden was founded in 1008 by king olof (Olof Sk? Tkonung), the whole country began to break away from paganism, but the founding of the country was gradually completed in the 12 century. In AD 1000, the Icelandic Parliament established by Norwegian immigrants appointed a patriarch to choose religion for the whole country to avoid religious civil war, and he chose Christianity.

The history of Russia is well known: Prince Vladimir, the Grand Duke of Kiev, decided to accept the Greek Orthodox Church from Byzantium in 988, leaving his subjects out of primitive religion. This decision is due to the particularly close trade relationship between Russia and Byzantium, but also because St. Cyril and St. Medodius successfully tried the Slavic alphabet in the last century, and Russia can also accept advanced religions. This step made Russia a member of the Christian world in Europe, but it was baptized in Constantinople, not in Rome, which also laid the groundwork for the alienation of European countries in the future. From 65438 to 0056, the Latin Church and the Greek Orthodox Church formally split, and the development of Russia and Western Europe in different ways became a foregone conclusion.

Is this just a list of isolated incidents? If a meteorite later falls from outer space in this part of Europe and breaks its history, it has nothing to do with our Millennium historical system. As this did not happen, Western Europe and Russia became the leading forces in the world at the end of the Millennium, and their trickle was particularly important in the formation period of 1000, which later merged into a tsunami wave.

From: A.D. 1000 [He Xun Blog]

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