Grievances between Russia and Ukraine (I)
The origins are intricate and complex, and the reason for this is nothing more than that a large number of nomadic tribes were once raised in the vast plains west of the Ural Mountains. These tribes migrate from water to water, sometimes merging and sometimes becoming independent,
There is constant conquest and integration between each other. Coupled with the fact that there is no specific written heritage, the historical context is quite complex, and it is impossible to pick it clearly and cleanly in terms of customs, language, clothing, etc. It can be said that
From here to the west to the Danube, this vast expanse of land was once a vacuum in the history of human civilization. The real history of letters is from the unknown ancient Roman archives, and thanks to the Mongols who came from the east...
In general, there were several large ethnic groups in the steppes and forests of Europe at that time, and in the records of the Roman Empire, the Germans north of the Alps, the Celts of northwestern France and the British Isles, and the Slavs of the Balkans and east,
Collectively known as the Three Barbarians. You can also see that there are still many omissions and omissions in this record, but the peoples of Europe are basically unclear to you, and the bearded eyebrows can be grasped and listened to.
It is said that the reason why the Slavs are called "Slavic" is the same as the slave "slave". It is because when the Romans crossed the Adriatic Sea in the Balkans to catch these people and sell them to the country to do hard work for people, as gladiators and other lowly jobs,
Therefore, I despise this ethnic group very much, and I directly call them slaves. The Slavs were divided into Yugoslavs, yes, the present-day Balkans of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the West Slavs, which is now Slovakia, Poland
And so on, East Slavs van called Ukraine and Russia.
The early Slavs were all nomadic tribes, and they also worked as middlemen to run errands, selling fur whale meat and other local specialties from the Baltic Sea to byzantium (Eastern Rome) to the south, and then selling byzantine spices and silks to bitter cold
In northern Europe, a large transit station was slowly formed on one of the trade routes, the edge of the Dnieper River--- Kiev. The Normans from Northern Europe, who had earlier controlled the trade route, gradually stopped doing errands
This hard work was given to the Slavs. The Slavs, who had money, established the Kyovan Rus' Principality in kievan rus' in this part of Kiev in the middle of the 9th century AD, and converted to the Eastern Roman Church in Byzantium
With the support of the Archbishop of Constantinople, a written language (i.e., the Cyrillic alphabet) derived from the Greek alphabet was created, and written records began to be made. Well, it can be said. The Principality of Kievan Rus was established with the Slavs as the main body
The first kingdom, during its existence the cognition of the Slavic peoples was established and universally recognized, and had its own writing, beliefs, customs, and really had a history of faith.
Therefore, the city or geographical term Kiev has a strong national appeal and centripetal force for all Slavs, and it is the true origin of Slavic national culture.
