Thread 520158413

During the Polish Golden Age, Poland was the place to be, as opposed to e.g. the HRE where they still believed that the sun revolves around the earth and were having witch hunts, massacres of peasants & religious wars involving schwedentrunk.
Instead of for Roman-tier republican enlightenment like in Poland, printing was used for aggressive civil-warmongering propaganda instead.

And guess what. This time is returning. The Second Polish Golden Age is beginning now.

>>520158413 (OP)
Poland has a golden age?

You glowies cycling back to 2018 Germany vs. Poland slidethreads for some particular reason?
There's enough shit happening in the world without you needing shit up the board with this garbage just to get some conversation going.

>>520158578
no

>>520158578
Very briefly, and it required the rest of Europe to fall into decades of barbarity and apocalyptic destruction so that Poland looked good in comparison.

>>520158413 (OP)
which cavalry charged into the Turkish camp outside Vienna in 1683?
oh thats right.......it was the POLISH cavalry.

>>520158942
>Very briefly,
roughly 200 years, from 1466 to 1648
>>520159219
yup
>>520158578
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Golden_Age
if you ever decide to stop being an ignorant, primitive french yokel and decide to learn more about Europe and European history, you might also want to check out the peak eras of other European nations, for example the Dutch Golden Age

a fun fact is that the author of pic related inspired Shakespeare's character Polonius, famous for the quote
>Brevity is the soul of wit
the treatise was an international hit, translated into many languages very quickly, in England subtitled as "consecrated to the honour of the Polonian Empyre"

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>>520160983
>Shakespeare's character Polonius
yeah
he made him an idiot

>>520163266
Polonius is a character in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. He is the chief counsellor of Claudius, and the father of Laertes and Ophelia.[1] Polonius is described by William Hazlitt as a "good, but tedious, father" who is "garrulous, officious, and impertinent." In Act II, Hamlet refers to Polonius as a "tedious old fool" and taunts him as a latter day "Jephtha."
Polonius connives with Claudius to spy on Hamlet. Hamlet unknowingly kills Polonius, provoking Ophelia's descent into madness, ultimately resulting in her (probable) suicide and the climax of the play: a duel between Laertes and Hamlet.

Shakespeare gave Polonius real intelligence and shrewdness. He’s trusted by the king, skillful at intrigue, and perceptive enough to suspect Hamlet’s “madness” might have a cause. His advice to Laertes (“Give thy thoughts no tongue,” “To thine own self be true”) is famous precisely because it’s worldly-wise, even if conventional.

Hamlet is the indecisive idiot of the play... His moody madness is the source of tragedy

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>>520164643
>Shakespeare used his depiction of an incompetent senator as a model for Polonius

>>520165427
and the source for that is, aha
>Cole, Daniel (1999). "From Renaissance Poland to Poland's Renaissance. The Struggle for Constitutionalism in Poland by Mark Brzezinski". Michigan Law Review.
it's just that dude's opinion

by the way
>It was a political and social classic, widely read and long popular in England after its 1598 translation;[6] read by Elizabeth I of England, it was also known by Shakespeare
apparently the treatise had a comparison between a competent and an incompetent senator of State

basically Polonius is comic relief, the overbearing daddy of two main characters, & many of his quotes and maxims even though they're supposed to be paternalizing trivial advice to his children etc. became classics like
>Brevity is the soul of wit
>Give thy thoughts no tongue//Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice

>>520158413 (OP)
>Poland was the place to be, as opposed to e.g. the HRE where they still believed that the sun revolves around the earth and were having witch hunts
Copernicus was born in Prussia and spoke German.

>>520166817
he was born in Poland and spoke Polish alongside German. look it up

>>520167727
he never wrote anything in polish
keep lying

>>520158413 (OP)
was the place to be for Jews you mean. Most of the Jews in the world lived there. My condolences to the peasantry who had to endure them.

>>520166817
Kopernik doesn't sound german

>>520168227
thats pretty irrelevant
he was still german

>>520158413 (OP)
>Second Polish Golden Age is beginning now
Good, don't let it end by some stupid war
Poland is 98% white, while the rest of Europe is 90, 85, 78 and decreasing (optimistic readings)
Keep being white, christian and avoid wars

>>520168315
theyre importing tens of thousands of shitskisns because their population is imploding

>>520167773
Uhh, we wuz scientists n shiet.

>>520167773
Polish wasn't used frequently in literature at all until after his death, he spoke Polish tho
>>520168310
nah, he even fought against you germs for the Polish King lel

>>520168514
non-EU citizen =/= shitskin in Poland's case
Ukies are non-EU citizens, retard

>>520168227
>was the place to be for Jews you mean.
for everyone, including jews. that's the definition of "the place to be" since everyone flocked to it, jews weren't the only ones
>My condolences to the peasantry who had to endure them.
how many peasant rebellions were there in danish/scandinavian history? cuz in the history of Polish statehood, pretty much none at all. idk about Ukrainian peasantry (they were the ones who faced Jews as instruments of Polish royalty the most) but Polish peasantry had it good, one of the best living conditions in Europe until the 19th century (when they worsened with the combined invasions and disappearance of the Polish state)
i'm aware that all that i'm saying runs counter to entrenched anti-Polish Marxist/Russian imperial propaganda but it's the current historical consensus

>The devastating nature of these disasters is demonstrated by several examples. Between 1692 and 1694, approximately 2 million people died in France, or about 10% of the country's population. Between 1696 and 1697, in Finland, then part of Sweden, approximately 30% of the population died. In East Prussia, between 1708 and 1711, 250,000 people died, or 21% of the population. In Ireland, approximately 400,000 people died in 1740, or about 38% of the population. And in Poland?

>An Oasis of Prosperity

>Poland fared remarkably well in comparison to Western Europe. The country's very large area, combined with a lower population density and relatively good soil (in some provinces, it was the best in Europe!), even with our lower level of agricultural development compared to the leading countries of Western Europe, meant that until the end of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, we produced more food than was needed to meet our own needs. In good years, it was exported. In years of poor harvests, there was still enough to meet society's basic needs. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth practically never experienced a nationwide crop failure.

Is it just one idiot who spams these dumbass threads or is there really a whole country of morons? I mean looking at their retarded politics it might even be a majority of the country. Un-fucking-believable.

>>520158413 (OP)
>schwedentrunk
Water under the bridge right?