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Could the Danube River have become the main artery of trade and travel for a new empire after the fall of the western Roman Empire?
How does the navigability of the Danube compare to the Dnieper River that allowed the Kievan Rus to raid the Black Sea?
What could create a river-based empire in the region? Perhaps there could be a sort of frontier company founded by the Eastern Roman Empire, which sails along the Danube and establishes outposts against Avar and Slavic raids. Maybe the frontier company survives, but the eastern Roman Empire itself doesn't, after Sassanid Persia or the Umayyads take down Constantinople.
How does the navigability of the Danube compare to the Dnieper River that allowed the Kievan Rus to raid the Black Sea?
What could create a river-based empire in the region? Perhaps there could be a sort of frontier company founded by the Eastern Roman Empire, which sails along the Danube and establishes outposts against Avar and Slavic raids. Maybe the frontier company survives, but the eastern Roman Empire itself doesn't, after Sassanid Persia or the Umayyads take down Constantinople.
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