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(red represents Kievan Rus as Blue Represents Byzantine Empire)

203-209 -In 864, the Byzantine empire sent those two missionaries to the territory now called Czech and Methodis. Continued their efforts to the Balkens and southern Russia where they both spoke fluent slavic language for aided their efforts. Created a written script for their language derived from Greek letters which are now Cyrllic thus which is the Slavic alphabet. consisted of spreading their language thourhg parts of Europe and churches. -Since Cyril And Methodis not only created the latin alphabet in Czech it also spread throughout Hungary and Poland. And sicne it was a conversion of Christianity, the Balkans organzied a very powerful group of Monarchies and aristocrats that passed mostly all western territory of Europe. But on the eastern side, the Jews resented the conversion of Christianity and maintaining there own cultural decisions that pretty much split between the two regions Slavic people began expanding Traders from Scadvian began working with the Slavic lands -Vladimir I made an important decision by converting to Christianity since the influence of Kiervan Rus trading center was Christian. He than organzied mass conversion subjects under extreme military forcement. He imported church leaders too help train Russian literature and soon on a __//Russian Orthodox//__ church soon developed -Similarities -Differences
 * __Who were Cyril and Methodius? What did they accomplish?__**
 * __How did events in the Middle East affect the demographics of the East Central borderlands?__**
 * __Outline the development of the Kievan Rus__**
 * -into Russia, Asia and eastern Europe
 * -even spreaded to Invaders like Bulgarians
 * -Ukrain and western Europe
 * -moving to the rivers of Western Russia and far enough to reach the Byzantine Empire
 * -Traded between Scadnvaid and Constanople
 * -Set up governments throughout their trade route espicially in the city of __//Kiev//__
 * -As the Kiev began to develop an monarchy of the name //Rurik// became the first prince from Denmark and called himself __//Kiervan Rus//__
 * -Greek meant __//red//__ for the color of the Norse traders
 * __What important decision was made by Vladimir I?__**
 * __What were some of the major similarities and differences between Byzantium and the Kievan Rus?__**
 * Both heavily Christian
 * Both replied on trading and expanding
 * Created the Slav Alphabet
 * Both used Iconic paintings in their architecture
 * The great cathedral of Kiev and the Byzantine example was the basis of Russia's first law code
 * Kievan borrowed much of the Byzantines, such as Bureacracy and educational institutions
 * Had a prince
 * Used a Domad structure
 * Street performances and thetre
 * Boyar (Russian arisitocrats) has less political power than counterparts
 * __What factors led to the decline of the Kievan Rus?__**
 * Invaders of Asia and the fight for the throne
 * Russia's decline of the Byzantine efftect it because it heavily relied on trade
 * The Mongals started to invade and wanted to collect all of Russia with ease
 * '//__'Tatars__// - were despised and feared
 * Tatars pretty much owned Russia but did not destory Russian Christianity
 * When Constanople fell to the Turks, Russia was pretty much down for

Civilizations will split if they cannot agree on something with political differences and internal culture differences are involved. Having both similar agreements but differences as well. As close and neighboring as they were, they cannot agree on a term, they will run if their own seperate way. With Mostly every neighboring country differing from one another on religon as being Jewish, Christian or Catholic. An Orthodox religon will come about where everyone believes in one thing or another but can never agree on one religon.
 * __Read and summarize the main points of "Eastern and Western Europe: The Problem of Boundaries" p.208__**

Kiervan Rus began to develop as borderlines between europe began to come up as polictical and religous differnces began to occur, but soon after their empire declined, as Invaders and the fall of constanople happend.