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  1. Baltic empires

    1) there was no muscovy, estonia, latvia, lithuania at the time. If we want to be historical, there will be Novgorod and russian khan dependencies+Rus if we go back enough, Couronians and semigallia and lettigalia instead of latvians, ingrians and liiv instead of estonians, samogitians and...
  2. Baltic empires

    We also need to keep in note that Rus also attempted invasion of baltics ca. 11th century but failed due to natural obstacles and defensive adaptibility for balts. Crusaders succeded because they seized the trade in first decade or so, so balts lost a great deal of wealth and opportunities to...
  3. Baltic empires

    If they get there, of course. They stopped at blobbed out lithuania.
  4. Baltic empires

    No and i knew that someone might ask this. Yes i know that middle east was another hub for trade between east and west but... baltic tribes got control over the northern part of it. You see, up here in the baltics there are MANY rivers that are wide, sailable and go deep inland. Ca. 11th...
  5. Baltic empires

    What if the baltic tribes unified and formed a stronger political entity before the crusaders appeared? Would we see a new superpower on the world stage today or would nothing have changed? Keep in mind that baltics were the epicentre of trade between east and west and the one that controled...
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