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https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/webcontent/the-origins-of-russia---summary-on-a-map/vi-0hjpxwsjiIsrbA?vid=qUgzqkCW6A4&provider=yt&ocid=msedgntp&cvid=7363a09c93af40b5ae424c3e97b01407&ei=16
Flagging this to watch later!
Watched this, it was enjoyable although it does end before the year 1800 or 1900 or so. Anyway... for better or worse, it puts the war in Ukraine in context as just another territorial dispute.
So many names. So many dates. So many moving boundaries.
I was struck with how central Kiyv (spelling?) was from the "start".
Also how the Mongols could've easily pushed through russia and into most of europe had their leader not died during the campaign.
It controlled the trade route to the Black Sea. Terribly important.
