Viking Expansion - The Lands of the Rus - #4
Added 2018-11-16 15:00:01 +0000 UTCVikings ventured further inland beyond the coasts of Europe, at first attacking Constantinople as they had everywhere else--but eventually settling into trade agreements and settling among Slavs and steppe nomads, their descendants forming a new kingdom.
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But thanks for reminding us how bad that is.
Bill Lemmond
2018-11-22 15:58:42 +0000 UTCSihg... more forced "conversions." I'm glad we now have the 12 step groups to tell us that "Attraction is better than promotion."
Bill Lemmond
2018-11-22 15:58:27 +0000 UTCInteresting... How did they transition from Viking ancestry to the Romanov Slavic?
Joo-Hwan Jun
2018-11-21 20:08:23 +0000 UTCOnly pre-Romanov nobility had Viking ancestry, common people were local Slavs (or other nations, later assimilated by Slavs).
Dagnir
2018-11-21 20:05:00 +0000 UTCThat ending was top notch: a land called russia. You guys always know how to make history epic. Keep it up!
AFrozen10-0
2018-11-17 18:23:06 +0000 UTCjust a note, you kinda screwed up portraying the varangian guard here. the varangians used great dane axes as their primary weapon as a rule, not the norse/carolingian style swords you portray them with here. hell, the greek name for them - pelekyphoros phroura - literarly means, the Axe Bearing Guard. alongside their greater average height than the native greek, it was one of the defining features they were known for
Winters King
2018-11-16 17:02:32 +0000 UTCAnyone else have a sudden Urge to Play Crusader Kings II?
Martin Verran
2018-11-16 16:05:03 +0000 UTCHuh.... I always wondered where the scary tough Russian stereotype came from.... Them having Viking ancestry does shed some light to it!
Joo-Hwan Jun
2018-11-16 15:14:16 +0000 UTC
