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Cyril and Methodius were missionaries who were sent by the government to go to the now Czech and Slovak republics. They formed a writing for the Slavic language from the Greek letters. The events in the Middle East led a big amount of the Jews migrate to East Central borderlands and here, people who could do any agriculture land but gained strength in local commerce, where they practiced their own religions and cultural traditions and a strong emphasis on education made them noticeable to the Eastern Europeans. · During the 6th and 7th centuries, traders from Scandinavia began to work through the Slavic lands going through the great rivers of western Russia, and into the Byzantine Empire. · Trade flourished between Scandinavia and Constantinople and the luxury products from Byzantine and the Arab world traveled north in return of furs, and other crude products. · The Scandinavian traders, militarily superior to the Slavs, gradually set up some governments along their trade route particularly in the city of Kiev. · According to a legend, a monarchy emerged and a Denmark native named Rurik became the first prince of what came to be known as Kievan Rus. · This principality was still loosely organized through alliances with regional, landed aristocrats and flourished until the 12th century. · During this time the name Russia was coined. He decided to convert everyone to Catholicism either by force or consent and asked for priest from the Byzantine Empire to come and help train the Russian priesthood. The Kievan Rus and the Byzantine both shared major institutions such as the bureaucracy and an elaborate educational system. The Keivan Rus also had icon paintings and built their churches the same way that the Byzantine had. They also borrowed the Byzantine law of code. However, the Kievan Rus gave devoted attention to the power of God and his saints and used the Cyrillic language instead of the Greek and used wood to build the domes they used marriages to contact families from one country to another. The decline of the Kievan Rus was due to rival princes setting up governments and the royal family often squabbling over succession to the throne. It also had to do with the invaders from Asia especially the Mongols and the Tatars. Eastern and Western Europe didn’t know where one civilization ended and where another one began. It was made difficult when the political units and some internal cultural differences were involved. During the expansions in Europe some countries would conquer a country that belonged to the opposite side. During the Russian expansion though, a lot of Eastern Europe including Poland were pulled into western Europe. As time also went by, disputes between the two increased and they were about politics and nationalist attachments. The religion between this two was also different. Western Europe was Orthodox whereas Eastern Europe was Catholic. At the end of the post-classical era that is one of the reasons that the Protestant Reformation took place. As for the conquered places that were from either side, trade didn’t really unit them until much later on.
 * 1) Who were Cyril and Methodius? What did they accomplish?
 * 1) How did events in the Middle East affect the demographics of the East Central borderlands?
 * 1) Outline the development of the Kievan Rus
 * 1) What important decision was made by Vladimir I?
 * 1) What were some of the major similarities and differences between Byzantium and the Kievan Rus?
 * 1) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What factors led to the decline of the Kievan Rus?