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5: Vikings, Slavers, Lawgivers: The Kyiv State

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The Vikings, the Byzantines, and the Franks

The Franks and the Byzantines are striving to control territories in Eastern Europe. The Vikings, who have been in contact with both of them, make their way through this region. What we also need are the other Slavic states. Every state is going to tell a story about how it emerged from nothing,. It emerged from nothing. Our people came from a mysterious place over the sea. You know, there was a city on a hill, whatever. Like our people came from nothing.

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