Word: kievan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Moldavia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizia. The future, sunny a moment earlier, suddenly looked problematic and dangerous. What of the 27,000 nuclear warheads deployed on missiles, bombers, submarines and at ammunition dumps across the old Union? Would the world see a medieval fragmentation, reversion to the old city-states of Kievan Rus and Muscovy, and feudal warlords with nukes? What of the 25 million ethnic Russians now intermixed with the newly nationalistic peoples of Ukraine or Kazakhstan? What would happen if the grain harvest proved as poor as predicted, the distribution system remained as feckless as ever, and winter...
...supposedly nailed his shield to the imperial gates of Constantinople. From this foray, the Russians brought home to their capital in Kiev an advantageous trade treaty and an even more advantageous contact with the Christian religion and sophisticated culture of Constantinople. Thus emerged the first Russian state, known as Kievan Russia...
...Kievan Russia prospered for about three centuries, dominating the main trade route from Scandinavia to Constantinople. Then there suddenly sounded new hoofbeats from the East...