What was common in the development of the Czech Republic and Poland?
The Polish and Czech states arose on the territory of Eastern Europe at about the same time (late 9-10 centuries). Poland and the Czech Republic were inhabited mainly by West Slavic peoples (glade, Slanzans, Czechs, etc.). This determines the similarity of the languages and cultures of these countries.
The Holy Roman Empire had a great influence on the history of the Czech Republic and Poland. I will consider the most important examples of this interaction:
numerous campaigns of the Empire against the Bohemian and Polish Kingdoms (the campaigns of Henry III in 1040 and 1041 against the Czech Republic; military actions between Poland and the Holy Roman Empire due to the increase of the Polish Kingdom in the 1010s);
some Polish and Czech lands belonged to the Empire; it should be noted that the Czech Republic, after the defeat in the war with Henry III in 1041, became part of the Holy Roman Empire;
the writing of the Western Slavs was based on the Latin alphabet – the state language of the Holy Roman Empire;
missionary work of Catholic bishops, thanks to which the Czech Republic (at the end of the 9th century) and Poland (in 966) adopted Catholic Christianity.
Further development of the countries will be marked by feudal fragmentation (early 12th century) and reformation (16-17th centuries). I’ll cover these topics in more detail:
feudal fragmentation in Bohemia led to the formation of “kraen”, feuds, which were led by large landowners, in Poland a similar process took place;
The 16th century marked the era of the Reformation; the reformation is a religious movement aimed at changing the Catholic Church; The reformation in Poland ended in failure; mainly Protestantism was professed by the German aristocracy, and the peculiarity was that now the German landowners demanded church tithes for themselves, instead of giving it to the Catholic Church; in Bohemia, due to the rule of the Habsburg dynasty, the country was Protestant; by the beginning of the reign of Rudolf II (1576), almost the entire population professed Protestantism; in the country this belief received a purely political organization.
