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Viking Expansion - The Lands of the Rus - #4
🕑 Added 2018-11-16 15:00:01 +0000 UTC Vikings 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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Bill Lemmond
But thanks for reminding us how bad that is.
Bill Lemmond
Sihg... more forced "conversions." I'm glad we now have the 12 step groups to tell us that "Attraction is better than promotion."
Joo-Hwan Jun
Interesting... How did they transition from Viking ancestry to the Romanov Slavic?
Dagnir
Only pre-Romanov nobility had Viking ancestry, common people were local Slavs (or other nations, later assimilated by Slavs).
AFrozen10-0
That ending was top notch: a land called russia. You guys always know how to make history epic. Keep it up!
Winters King
just 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
Martin Verran
Anyone else have a sudden Urge to Play Crusader Kings II?
Joo-Hwan Jun
Huh.... I always wondered where the scary tough Russian stereotype came from.... Them having Viking ancestry does shed some light to it!
