>>192669It's very strange how history especially in these
our lands, on the eastern side of the Baltic sea and in Polska is so quiet around the years 1000–1200. Especially here in lithuania. It's hard to believe that during all that time we were just some kind of semi-wild primitives. Of course, there are no surviving written sources from that period, but isn't it a kind of revisionism to claim that we were exactly those primitive, semi-wild people, and then suddenly started creating sophisticated societies?
To equip armies with armor and swords, you needed advanced metallurgy. To maintain those armies, you needed massive stables, food supplies, and fodder. Buildings, campaigns, logistics, and so on—it’s hard to believe everything was that primitive and then suddenly there was some rapid leap forward instantly.
Even your coinses in picrel 100yrs later indicate economic principles and so on.