WI: Prussia accepts Christianity before Poland

What if instead of Mieszko I accepting Christianity, instead a monarch from Prussia accepted Christianity from Scandanavia or Germany before Poland would accept Christianity, what would happen to Poland and Prussia?
 
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What if instead of Mieszko I accepting Christianity, instead a monarch from Prussia accepted Christianity from Scandanavia or Germany before Poland would accept Christianity, what would happen to Poland and Prussia?

I don't think any single Prussian tribe was as numerous as the Polans. Smaller tribes+Christianisation attempts = look at what happened to the Polabians.
 
I don't think any single Prussian tribe was as numerous as the Polans. Smaller tribes+Christianisation attempts = look at what happened to the Polabians.
Perhaps the Bohemians war with Polans and try to get parts of their territory and try to gain an ally with Kievian Rus..
 
Lack of actual Prussian state makes it difficult. Mieszko I accepted Christianity due to political reasons - why would isolated, fragmented Prussian tribes do so?
 
Prutenii, not Prussia

I think you should amend the title with a reference to the Prutenii (the tribe), rather than Prussia (the state).
Prussia (whether you take the 1466 version, or the 1525 version, or the 1701 "real prussian" version) was christian by default (if you doubt it, don't tell that in front of a Teutonic Knight).
sorry for cherrypicking :D
 
Lack of actual Prussian state makes it difficult. Mieszko I accepted Christianity due to political reasons - why would isolated, fragmented Prussian tribes do so?
Yeah, political unity would be required for it to really count. I believe some Danish kings/chiefs did convert to Christianity before the official Christianization, but it's only when a king of all of Denmark converted that it really stuck. Without a supreme authority turning the crown itself Christian, you just have individual chiefs or minor "kings" who turn Christian, but not in a way that will dissuade crusaders and the like from coming in.

In which case you need to ask yourself how this state is formed, and what that means. Political unity alone could create some important differences. Logically, a powerful Christian (Old) Prussian king might go crusading in a similar fashion to what the Danish kings did in OTL, gaining papal support in his conquest of the Baltic tribes to the north. Not sure how that would go. The power base would be weaker, but closer, and the other Baltic tribes would be culturally similar. Prussians (or some other variation on Prutenii) could end up the name for all of the Baltic tribes, based on the rest of Europe getting to know them through a Christian Prussian king. That seems to be a pretty common way for countries to get named.

A conquest into non-Christian Poland seems like it could be troublesome, and maybe the HRE would get annoyed? I frankly don't know enough about Poland to say anything definitive about that part though.

sorry for cherrypicking :D
I believe you mean nitpicking. Cherrypicking is when you select the evidence that favors your position (the cherries) while ignoring the evidence that goes against it.
 
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