Did the Piast dynasty fund early Poland through the slave trade?

A historian argues that one of the key sources of income for the early Piast rulers — enabling the construction of strongholds and the formation of the Polish state — may have been the slave trade. Human trafficking was widespread in early medieval Europe. The hypothesis is grounded in archaeological and historical sources from the era of Mieszko I and his predecessors.

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