Today we briefly discussed the impact that geography has had on Russian medieval history, as well as Russian "identity" that still exists today.
Certainly, it wouldn't be fair to describe all members of a nation in the same way, but Russia as a nation still deals with concerns about xenophobia (fear of strangers) that some historians say goes back to the medieval time period.
We discussed that Russia was connected north to south by rivers, but wide open to invasion from the east and west; in the early 1200s, the Mongols invaded Russia, and destroyed Kiev. This allowed Moscow to eventually rise as the #1 city in the region, and it eventually became the center of the Russia culture, a position it still holds today.
For homework, you received your Russian Icon Museum booklets, so please complete them for tomorrow. It might not be a bad idea to take care of this week's CCA, which is also about the museum.
Certainly, it wouldn't be fair to describe all members of a nation in the same way, but Russia as a nation still deals with concerns about xenophobia (fear of strangers) that some historians say goes back to the medieval time period.
We discussed that Russia was connected north to south by rivers, but wide open to invasion from the east and west; in the early 1200s, the Mongols invaded Russia, and destroyed Kiev. This allowed Moscow to eventually rise as the #1 city in the region, and it eventually became the center of the Russia culture, a position it still holds today.
For homework, you received your Russian Icon Museum booklets, so please complete them for tomorrow. It might not be a bad idea to take care of this week's CCA, which is also about the museum.