Kievan Rus reunified

@Salvador79, do those quarrels stop Sweden from having any significant activity against the Kievan Rus' other successor states? Those look like powerful enemies, potentially more threatening than the Kievan Rus' successor states.

@lokaloki, correct Yaroslav lives on in this timeline. Those look like two powerful contenders. The fight between Yaroslav's sons sounds like a pretty big blow to Vladimir. Would Vladimir survive long enough to resolve the conflict between Yaroslav's sons or is this likely to just end in Daniel using the chaos to unite the two nations?
 
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In this timeline the Byzantine Empire still exists and controls what is roughly OTL Greece and Anatolia. So how does the rest of Europe develop if Russia never develops and Eastern Europe stayed divided? How would Sweden have developed? Might the Byzantine Empire get involved if Sweden attempted to invade Eastern Europe? I would imagine Sweden might be hesitant to attack Eastern Europe now that the Byzantine Empire can render assistance to the nations there.
I'm not an expert on Kievan Rus but I remember reading that they started to decline when the Byzantine's, the main market for the trade routes they relied upon, was declining economically.
 
@Hawkeye, that makes sense. The Byzantines were quite wealthy so they'd make a good trading partner.

If the Byzantine Empire survives and just sits on its Anatolia and Greek territories how does Bulgaria turn out? If the Ottomans are butterflied away and the Byzantines are an ally could we see Bulgaria significantly expanding into the area of the former Kievan Rus?
 
Byzantium is going to collapse at some point. When that happens the Bulgarians are going to be one of the closest to Constantinople. It may be a mighty city but without a strong civilization to support it, it's conquest becomes a matter of time.
 
If we have the Mongols losing the Battle of Badger Pass and Subutai is killed, would the Mongols be likely to lose the Battle of Kalka or the campaign leading up to it? Would the major Mongol loss more likely occur during the later Mongol invasions (which is what happens during the current version of my timeline)?

Perhaps the alliance of the Rus' princes leading up to Kalka could be the beginning of unification of the Rus'? Even if complete unification doesn't occur maybe a large enough coalition may arise to tip the scales of power in Eastern Europe in their favor?
 
If the total population of Siberia is low enough (reaching roughly 20 million in 1400's for an entire region split into more than 10 countries)
Siberian population reached 20 millions after ww2. Before Russian conquest started, population of Siberia could be measured in hunderts of thousands, not millions.
 
@Jan Olbracht, the 20 million arises a century after they are discovered by non Europeans. In that time potatoes, other crops and livestock are introduced across the region and technology from the outside world flows into the region with trade. Such a productive crop and demand for their resources would be a strong incentive for at least some to settle down in one place.

The Siberian region was contacted from the South when some of their southern neighbors are roughly at 1760's tech (the tech has been boosted quite a bit in this timeline). Europeans start showing up in the region 120 years later with 1740-60's tech but eastern Europe at that time is still divided into bickering nations (nothing close to Russia has formed). Most Siberian nations have guns (the Comanche only took a couple of decades to start buying and fielding guns), assisted in many aspects by China and Korea who want to surround Jin and its allies with their own.

With an agricultural, tech bootstrapped Siberia how high could the population get?
 
Back on the same timeline again.

Just wondering, in a timeline where the Kievan Rus never reunifies or stays disunified for a prolonged period of time, how does this affect the fate of Finland?

Would they have turned out exactly the same, worse or perhaps better? It seems that one of the competitors of Novgorod might try supporting the Finns, supplying them with some horses and tech to flip Novgorod the metaphorical finger and weaken them. On the other hand they may see this as creating another viable threat to their own civilizations.
 
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