Why did the recorded history of Poland start after the reign of Miezsko I?
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The Polish state was rather new in the time of Miezsko I - maybe a few decades - as the original Polish tribe expanded and united various neighboring Slavic tribes. I believe the first written mention of the Polish state was in 963. Miezsko married the daughter of the Duke of Bohemia in 965 and converted to Christianity in 966. After about that time there was enough contact with literate European societies for some Polish historical events to be recorded by foreign writers and more and more literate priests in Poland to write about events in Polish history. So both foreign and Polish sources for Polish history begin with Miezsko I.
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Mieszko's baptism in AD 966 brought catholic monks who, for quite a while were the only literate men in the new state. Before Christianity arrived to Poland there was no one to write it's history. There are only a handful of external sources like Ibrahim ibn Yaqub or Thietmar of Merseburg from around that time.
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