The Origins of Kyiv
Gone Medieval
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Did the Mongols Contribute to the Formation of a Cohesive State?
Ruse states were already squabbling, fighting amongst themselves and everything else. So the northern rus rulers did not free themselves of mongol dominion until the 14 eighties. The church and monasteries that go to the various northern lands of siberia are part of this expansion of the muscovite world to the east. And as these tax collectors, they begin to centralize power. It is from the mongols that they begin to develop acentral administrative system,. A mal system, and the idea of a ruler as an autocrat, a single autocrat. But what this does is creates a very different development in belarus and ucranian lands
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