HIST-301 Lecture 49: Kievan Rus
9 Oct 2020
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The east was also attractive: the kievan rus. Norse raiders from sweden migrated southeast into what is now russia. Sailing across the baltic sea was quicker and sea than going to the west as other norsemen did. Once across the baltic, other vikings tapped into vast river networks like the don and the volga, leading down toward the black sea. This allowed scandinavian migrants to trade with slavic grops bt also with byzantium and the. This eastward expansion was also more politically consequential than the western ones. There was a lot more going on near the black sea, connected as it was to the major cities of the. Goods could flow along the silk road from eastern asia to eastern europe through major hubs like baghdad and constantinople. In western europe, some scandinavians wanted to settle in the lands that they made their wealth in.
