Was Poland the greatest country in the world during the 1540 - 1640 period?

Was Poland the greatest country in the world during the 1540 - 1640 period?

Nah, that were the Ottomans

Sandniggers or not, they went wild on eastern europe around that time

That would be Spain

Poland was always irrelevant

>What is the rest of Europe

Literally everyone in Europe has achieved more.

spain did pretty well.
didn't blacks invent the pyramids in 1530

Im buying up a whole load of diet coke to send a polish man into space to end polish jokes once for all.

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WUZ

OIL EXPORTERS

>always
>once one of the largest and most powerful countries in the world
>irrelevant

maybe now, but definitely not then

RELVANTZ

Is this bait

The greatest? I don't know. But it was surely great back then. Good times.

This is now Polish nostalgia thread.

>sejm
>liberum veto

No

Liberum veto wasn't used before 1669.

Gratz on ruling bunch of shitholes, you must be very proud of it

>calling your own country a shithole

why the hate Estonia?

I really wonder which country in Europe had largest Ashkenazi population by that time.
The Netherlands were a more Sephardi thing, as I recall.

>which country in Europe had largest Ashkenazi population by that time
We did. Poland was a safe heaven for every persecuted religion as long as they could act civilized about it.

Because thats what EE is, but at the same time its a good thing because no 1 million refugee. Also you only had south estonia, nothing useful there

>Gratz on ruling bunch of shitholes
Becoming a culturally sovereign country that managed to assimilate different nations, spreading influence as far as to Smolensk, creating own and original state institutions. All done by a kingdom that started with 1 million people in between HRE and Ruthenia. I'd say it's gone pretty impressively. And now Poland will become the strongest european state (I count Russia out), because the West is clearly going into abbyss

Ah yesss, poor persecuted nosy minorities.
The tolerance ended so well for you, didn't it?

Assuming we all wont just die before that happens, you know, 1.3 replacement rate

We learned not to do that after they ate us from the inside.
The west still needs to receive that hard lesson from life.

Can you forgive us for Deluge?

>assimilate different nations
Who did you even assimilate, just curious, not to be mean
Also, gratz from getting all that land from lithuania

The country was dying anyway (Russia, Cossacs, ottomans and Liberum veto shit.) almost like Sweden today only without wars.

You just threw your flavour into the mix so that it could an hero faster.

pepsodent, you must not forget the pepsodent

Well... Were you conquering HALF THE FUGGIN' WORLD like we did? If no, then no

>be incompetent in terms of economy
>conquer half of the world
>bring all of the riches to europe
>die from inflation

wew

Germans, Lithuanians, Ruthenians, some Germans from Latvia like Manteuffel. Mostly Germans in general I think

500+ = fixed

>implying that that "Poland" existed after 1569
Nice meme.