Russia

Pre history –

In 2006, a discovery of 1.5 million-year-old old wan tools was found in extreme south-west Russia demonstrating the presence of early humans in north Asia.

Arctic Russia was reached 40 thousand years ago. That Russia was also home to some of the surviving Neanderthals.

Early history –

The later part of the history of the 8th century BCE, Greek merchants brought classical civilization to the trade in the city of Tanais and Phanagoria ( largest Ancient Greek city on the Taman peninsula )

Until the 3rd and the 4th century, another kingdom was born in southern Russia until it was overrun by Huns. Between the 3rd and 6th century the Greek colonies were also overwhelmed by successive waves of nomadic invasions.

Early East Slavs –

Some the ancestors of the modern Russians were Slavic tribes whose original home is thought by some scholars to have been the wooded areas of the Pripet Marshes. The early East Slavs gradually settled Western Russia

Mongol Invasion-

In 1237 – 1238 the Mongol burnt down the city of Vladimir and other major cities of northeast Russia. By then they had conquered most of the Russian principalities. The impact of the Mongol invasion on the territories of Kievan Rus’ was uneven. The advanced city culture was almost completely destroyed. As older centers such as Kiev and Vladimir never recovered from the devastation of the initial attack.

Shaurya Mehta

Section A