Western Civilization I / Unit 9 WC1 0811 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Vladimir, Kiev, and the Rus
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The idea
The Rus were Vikings ruling Slavic towns. Vladimir the Great of Kiev converted to Orthodoxy about nine eighty-eight, the witness's date, and banned the Norse gods, taking legitimacy from Rome's prestige as Byzantium embodied it.
In practice
Russia's church descends from this choice.
Where people slip
The anchor says about nine eighty. The witness's nine eighty-eight is the conventional date.
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