Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Kievan Rus
- Who?
- vikings
- from Russia
to Byzantine
Empire
- Where?
- Eastern Europe
- Nougorod
- Kiev
- Significance
- trade routes
- Baltic
- Constantinople
- Baghdad
- Connected to
- eventual
- foundation of Russian identity (cult)
- Origins
- Rurik + 2 brothers
- Novgorod
- Oleg the Prophet
- to...
- Kiev
- ***trade agreements with the Byzantine
- Stucture
- Principalities (confederacy)
- Vladimir "the Great"
- *unify through
Orthodox
Church
- Byzantine Empire
- Problem
- Thus
- perception of weakness
- Worsened by
- Byzantine Decline
- Lack of
centralized
authority
- Examples: Swahili,
Merchant Sultanate,
Ashikaga, Hanseatic
League
- Vulnerablity
- Principalities (internal strife)
- No cent. auth.
- Polovtsy
- displaced
neighbors
- Asking
for
help
- Poor choice
- kill Mongol emissaries
- Impact
- Golden Horde
- Annilate Rus
- Political
- absorbed
into
Golden
economy
- Unity
- cultural (Orthodox Church)
- military and tax exemptions
- strengthens Orthodox Church
- Moves center to Moscow
- Metropolitans
- leaders
- "missions"
- rural
- Collaboration
- Appoint
local rulers
to collect
taxes