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5: Vikings, Slavers, Lawgivers: The Kyiv State

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The Math of Slavery

Christianity looks like two pagans from the point of view of the 9th and 10th and 11th centuries. So if you're a pagan, everyone can enslave you. And so long as the power balances on your side, that may seem like an acceptable answer. The grandest of Lithuania did much more enslaving than people did enslaving of their people. It worked for them. They stayed pagans for a very long time.

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