After the Prussians were militarily defeated in the second half of the 13th century, they were gradually subjected to Christianization and cultural assimilation during the following centuries as part of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights.
Nakon što su Prusi bili vojno poraženi u drugoj polovici 13. stoljeća, postupno su bili podvrgnuti pokrštavanju i kulturnoj asimilacije tijekom narednih stoljeća kao dio Redovničke države Teutonskih vitezova.