Lechitic/Polonized Bohemia

Since the Kingdom of Bohemia once controlled Lesser Poland and Silesia before Mieszko I invaded them is there a way for the Lechites to assimilate the Czechs in the Kingdom of Bohemia? What would be the consequences of it?
 

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If Poland can get Bohemia early, or if the Bohemians for some reason get control of Poland in the High Middle Ages there's a chance the Czechs would be assimilated. The result would be Mega Poland with scenario A, and Mega Bohemia that Speak Polish with scenario B.
 
In Mieszko I's times? Very doubtful. Bohemia was a Christian state, after all, somewhat more civilized that freshly baptized Poland. Mieszko I had empress Teofano's support (or rather he supported her) which was enough to conquer Lesser Poland and Silesia (which probably were poorly defended), but to conquer Bohemia Poles would have had to cross mountains with easy to defend passes. I'm also not sure if Teofano would have agreed that any of her vassal would become so powerful.
 
The only chance I see if Boleslaw the Brave conquers Bohemia and then agrees to pay tribute from it to Konrad III. This could allow him to retain the whole west slavic realm till the moment he get the crown to himself. And as main powerbase of his realms was north of mountains, Bohemia would eventually be assimilated into Polish realm not the other way around. In this time the dialects of western Slavs weren't much differentiated so the west slavic language would be probably called Polish.

In high middle ages I can't see how wealthy and highly cultured kingdom of Bohemia would become dominated by Polish culture so much that the local language would be supplanted by Polish. AFAIK in high middle ages Czech language influenced Polish, not the other way around.
 
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