Polish History I and II + Polish Language

Boleslaw II (The Bold)

Polish King who killed a bishop

Boleslaw the Brave

Established the Diocese of Gniezno to link catholicism directly to the pope

Jadwiga

Polish King (girl) who married Jagietto, to unite Poland and Lithuania

Kazimierz Wielki

Found Poland in wood and left it in stone

Konrad of Mazovia

Stupidly invited the Teutonic Knights into Poland

Mieszko I

Accepted christianity in 966

Privilege of Kalisz

Edict which let jews govern themselves at the local level

Stanislaw of Szczepanow

Polish Bishop killed by the king

Treaty of Krakow (1525)

The Teutonic Knights became vassals of the Polish King, and ceded the land that was later called “the Polish Corridor”

Union of Lublin (1569)

A constitutional convention that turned Poland-Lithuania into the Commonwealth

What was Poland wealthy for in the 17th century?

Selling grain grown in Ukraine to Western Europe

Poland was mostly culturally tolerant toward

All of above -

Jews, Catholics and Protestants

Who was considered to be Polish in Poland

The nobleman or noblewoman

Anthropologically speaking, what myth proposed the nobility were absolutely separate from the Slavic peoples who lived in the commonwealth

Sarmation myth

The liberium veto

was a principle based in the Golden liberty and could be exercised in the Sejm by any of the Szlachta, but was not used extensively until Poland was gutted in the later 17th century.

Golden liberty

Polish nobles jealous of freedom

The 17th century for Poland

Best and worst century for Poland

Best - stole grain from Ukraine, religiously tolerant, militarily strong, geographically huge

Worst - 1648 - 1699 - war, partitions, ect.

Event that gutted Poland in the second half of the seventeenth century was

war

The countries that partitioned Poland were

Prussia, Austria, and Russia

In Russia, what forced Polish nobles to move from their farms and move to cities

emancipation of the surfs

The main problems for Poles living in Galicja (in Austria) were

violence and famine

The main problem for Poles living in Prussia (or Germany after 1871) were

the kulturkampf

Sejm

parliment

szlahta

nobility/gentry

Rzeczospopolita

republic or commonwealth

prosze

please

dziekuje

thank you

pan

lord or sir

pani

mame or lady

panna

miss or young woman

Ignancy Jan Paderewski

embassador

Jozef Piksudski

Though Poland should be multiethnic (PNA) - Didnt like catholic church, pro jewish

Roman Dmowski

Polish nationalism - Poland is for Polish people (PRCU) - catholic only

Lech Wakesa

Strikes against communist gov. in the 1980s

Toduerz Koseiuszko

West Point - fought against Russia

John Paul II

Polis pope - helped destroy communism in Eastern Europe

Franciszek Hodor

Head of Polish National Catholic Church - own church after disrespected by German and Irish

FDR - Franklin Delanu Roosevelt

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What type of language is the Ukrainian language?

Eastern slavic serillic alphabet

What type of alphabet + language is Polish?

Roman alphabet + West Slavic

What type of language is Luthuania?

A baltic language - not a slavic language - roman alphabet