How did they manage to stay pagan for so long?

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

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

>Isolation from Germaniggers
Are you retarded?

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

Terrain advantage or hard faithul warrior tribes.

Gilan and Tapuria in modern Iran managed to stay as a independent Zoroastrian region well into the 11th century repelling any arab/muslim attempt of conquest and during the reign of the Ziyarid dynasty they would reconquer Persian lands from the Abbasids while trying to recreate a Zoroastrian empire under a guy called Mardavij.
But luckily a pair of Turks assassinated him while the Empire later got absorbed by my proud Seljuk Turkic ancestors.

Imagine, if not for us Turks then Iran might have been a backwards fireworshipping zoroastrian shithole today instead of a proud muslim nation.

fuck

>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?

t. Ulrich Von Jungingen

Too little stuff to steal.

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

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

They were relevant enough to trouble Poland

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.

True

Who?

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

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

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

wut

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

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

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?

Price of being an irrelevant, illiterate backwater.

>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

It was only a raid.

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

Culture takes a long time to die.

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.

Turks truly do ruin everything

Fucking Roaches ruining dank fire clan.

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