1201-1346 CE
From 1201 to 1346 CE, the Livonians watched their world end in fire and holy water — crusaders raising Riga's walls where sacred groves had stood, the Sword Brothers and then the Teutonic Knights dividing their ancestral lands like spoils of war. Those who bent the knee were baptized and bound to labor; those who resisted found only the sword. By the time Denmark sold its Estonian holdings, the old ways survived only in whispered songs.