Kievan Rus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...economy of the Kievan state was based on agriculture and on extensive trade with Byzantium, Asia, and Scandinavia. Culture, as well as religion, was drawn from Byzantium; Church Slavonic was the literary and liturgical language of the state...