Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Understanding Orthodox Civilization." video.

  1. The ancient Slavs apparently occupied a location near the Vistula River. In the modern sense, they are one of the most numerous speakers of their group of Indo-European languages. The great migration period coeval to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, saw Slavs move into lands in Eastern and Central Europe, previously occupied by Germanic tribes, and Southwards into the Balkans. Slavs, such as the Russians, were late into forming kingdoms and settlements (such had occurred earlier in Western Europe under mainly Germanic kings), but proto-Slavic nations eager for centralized nobility structures and monarchy either took the Western (Latin forms, such as the Poles, Slovenes etc), or the Eastern Orthodox part set by the Greeks. This also set their alphabets between the Latin alphabet and Greek derived Cyrillic. This is not a nuanced version of the Slav peoples but an abridged version. Further Eastward land expansionism by Russians from the 17th century onwards, spread Slavic Christian Orthodox influence and European agriculture to central and East Asia (where desertification was not too severe). Slavs themselves are mainly Christians but sharply divided between Western (I.e, Roman Catholic) and Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
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