ORTHODOX MISSIONARIES
• 864 ORTHODOX MISSIONARIES CYRIL AND
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METHODIUS TO TERRITORY THAT IS NOW CZECH
AND SLOVAK REPUBLICS. THE ROMAN
CATHOLICS WERE MORE POWERFUL SO THEY
MOVED ON THE BALKANS AND SOUTHERN
RUSSIA, WHERE THEIR ABILITY TO SPEAK THE
SLAVIC LANGUAGE HELPED GAIN CONVERTS.
THEY DEVISED A WRITTEN SCRIPT FOR THE
LANGUAGE DERIVED FROM GREEK LETTERSCYRILLIC
LITERATURE AND LITERACY DEVELOPED ALONG
WITH THE SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE
EAST. ALSO, MISSIONARIES WILLING TO USE
LOCAL LANGUAGES IN SERVICES- OPPOSITE OF
LATIN WEST
BOTH SLAVIC AND GREEK
• SLAVS- PEOPLE FROM THE FORESTS NORTH OF
THE BLACK SEA
• DURING THE 9TH CENTURY THEY BEGIN TRADING
WITH PEOPLE ALONG THE BLACK SEA AND
SLOWLY ABSORB THEIR CULTURE
THE LAND OF RUSSIA’S BIRTH
• 3 RIVERS :DNIEPER, DON, VOLGA RUN FROM THE
FOREST TO THE BLACK SEA
• EARLY ON THE FORESTS WERE INHABITED BY
TRIBES OF SLAVIC FARMERS AND TRADERS
• THERE WAS NO UNITY
• VIKINGS (WHICH THE SLAVS CALLED “RUS”)
CAME DOWN AND SETTLED ALONG THE RIVERS
ALONG WITH THE SLAVS
SLAVS AND VIKINGS
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SLAVS INVITED THE VIKING CHIEF RURIK TO BE THEIR KING
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880 KIEV FOUNDED
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KIEV GREW INTO A PRINCIPALITY- A STATE RUN BY A PRINCE
862 HE FOUNDED NOVGOROD
PRIMARY CHRONICLE - A HISTORY OF RUSSIA WRITTEN BY
MONKS IN THE EARLY 11OOS
TRADED ACTIVELY WITH CONSTANTINOPLE FOR TIMBER, FUR,
WAX, HONEY, AND SLAVES
LINE BETWEEN SLAVS AND VIKINGS VANISHED
DIVIDED BWTTEN PEASANTS AND NOBLES OR BOYARS
KIEV BECOMES ORTHODOX
• 957 PRINCESS OLGA CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY
• 980 VLADIMIR (HER GRANDSON) TAKES THRONE
AND CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY (AS TOLD IN THE
PRIMARY CHRONICLE)
• 989 BAPTISM OF ALL CITIZEN OF KIEV
• ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY SPREAD
• VLADIMIR LIKED THAT THE BYZANTINE IDEA OF THE
EMPEROR AS SUPREME RULER OF THE CHURCH
KIEVAN RUSSIA
• DUE TO TIES TO BYZANTIUM, KIEV GREW WEALTHY
AND POWERFUL
• VLADIMIR EXPANDED TERRITORY WEST INTO
POLAND AND NORTH TO THE BALTIC
• 1019- YAROSLAV THE WISE, VLAD’S SON, MADE IT
EVEN MORE POWERFUL
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LEGAL CODE
LIBRARY
ALLIANCES THROUGH MARRIAGE OF DAUGHTERS TO
POWERFUL NOBLE FAMILIES IN EUROPE
POWER STRUGGLES BRING ON KIEV’S
DECLINE
• YAROSLAV HAD DIVIDED HIS LAND AMONG HIS
SONS WHEN HE DIED, CAUSING FIGHTING
BETWEEN THEM OVER THE BEST TERRITORIES
• THIS CONTINUED IN FUTURE GENERATIONS
• CRUSADES DISRUPTED TRADE
• MONGOLS INVADE RUSSIA AND RULE OVER IT
FOR ABOUT 200 YEARS