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5: Vikings, Slavers, Lawgivers: The Kyiv State

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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What Do the Vikings Have to Do With It?

The Viking Age begins in 793. The Vikings are probably best understood as a reaction to Star-Laming. They come into contact with Byzantium, which is the big economic and political power down there in the south. This all hooks together. It all connects. If you try to think, what is the one thing which causes this? Things are always connecting, right?

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