Volga Vikings (OCR GCSE History B (Schools History Project)): Flashcards

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The changing nature of Viking (Rus) trade and settlement in Russia from c.750
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When Vikings ventured for trade routes

8th century

Two Viking trade routes in Russia

Dnieper→Black Sea; Volga→Caspian Sea

Three trade centres Vikings established

Novgorod, Kiev, Bulgar

What Slavs called Vikings in Russia

Rus

What Byzantines called the Rus

Rhos

Year Rus began taxing Slavs & Finns

859

Tribute Vikings collected from Slavs

Furs and slaves

How long Byzantines provisioned traders

Six months

Provisions Byzantines gave traders

Wine, meat, bread, fish, fruits, baths

Trader requirements in Byzantine city

Register name, avoid violence, enter unarmed

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