Throughout the history of what is now Russia, policies, cultures, and power has been changing over time. Norsemen, also known as Vikings, would come to power and continue their ways of trade and piracy in the new land that they have founded. They appointed Rurik as their leader and before you knew it, they had gone south from where they stayed and would be told to rule Keiv; Where his son’s Igor and Sviatoslav destroyed the Khazars. Jonathan Shepard would state in his article,” … Our land is vast and abundant, but there is no order in it. Come and reign as princes and have authority over us!” There, in the 9th century, the city of Rus’ emerged and a couple of states who had all wanted to continue trade had conquered the Dnieper River …show more content…
Although, the Mongols did leave a small negative impact on Russian because they would decrease the population slowly by the amount of military attacks against other nearby cities that the Mongols wanted. Janet Martin states in his article, “Mongol military campaigns, seizures of captives, and demands for labour and tribute were not the only factors that aversively affected the demographic and economic condition of north-eastern Russia ”. Although the Mongols di that they also gave the Russians new trading routes through a new set of road networks and the Mongols also provided better and more effective military tactics for the Russians, especially after the Mongols have agreed on working with Alexandre Nevsky in assisting him with unwelcomed invaders. Nevsky’s son, Daniil, would become the new founder of Moscow and was given power by the Mongols. The Grand Princes would be in charge of collecting the payments from the Tatars, which the Mongols would do as an agreement they had with princes who were around the Mongol territory. But the power of the Mongols began to fall and the Grand Princes would want to take advantage of the weaker Mongols and fight them in battle to oppose their demands and become their own independent rulers; but it didn’t fully make them independent as Tatar rule was still surviving throughout Russia. The Grand Princes helped Russia become a unified state but most of the conquest of Moscow came when Ivan III would be in power. Ivan III would be among the people who wanted the city of Moscow to expand their land and possibly expand their empire and have more revenue from the also increasing population. Ivan the Great would be fighting with the Novgorod until he finally defeats them and annexes them out,