Scythian+and+Novgorod

Scythians are a group of people that lived in Russia, around the 600 B.C. They taken over some land to the South (Turkey today.) There wasn't any civilization going on until 862 A.D. The Novgorod was then formed and they had Democracy as their system of government. They have many different technologies and stuff like horseback riding, the poppy seeds, and the Slavic language that were brought by Spanish missionaries.
 * Scythian And Novgorod**

Evidence showed that the horses was not the first animal that was ridden. It was the ox that was first being ridden by the people near Mesopotamia. The Scythian also used the horses to travel, pull chorits, and trading. But these were use for some short range distance travel. Although they were used for short distance, they still got to some other place slowly and they expanded their land. From a guess of mine, I can tell that the horses help spread the poppy seed and this lead to the enrichment of their economy. Also this made them able to do many other thing instead of just farming stuff. Then the horse breeding started to increase and spread all around the world.
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Farming of poppy seeds and the success of agriculture in Russia, Novgorod was able to expand for the reason that it was able to trade with foreign countries, such as Greece, Rome, with crops that were very rare to the world, poppies. As the population grew higher, more and more merchants came to the city to trade goods due to this “rare” plants that could only be found in this city, and the fact that this city was filled with rare goods that had been exchanged by the merchants of Novgorod that were rarely found (the merchants were experts at trading), which therefore raising its economy at a relatively fast rate. However, due to so much trade happening, many new ideas had flown in to the country that had inspired people to change. One of them was democracy. Merchants that had visited Greece or Rome were really fascinated by their governing system, where people can have a voice, and can elect their own leader, while back in their country, they don’t have a voice. They was also a Parliament, which is as powerful as the leader, can make decisions with the leader so he will not be the only one making them. Also, the thing that they can elect representatives, and can elect their leaders also astonished them a lot. Ideas were free to flow within the country. For example, Philosophy. Philosophy greatly prospered in Greece due to the freedom of ideas within the country. Harry, while one trip to Greece, had met and talked to Aristotle himself while at a city market, when he was spreading his concept about philosophy one day. Harry was greatly shocked that Aristotle mentioned a lot to him about the concept of Democracy, and the risk of it if people abuse it when he talked to him about their government system compare to theirs. This system is good because people, compared to other system like Aristocracy ( ruled by the few), have a voice within the government, therefore preventing the leader making decisions that are unfavorable towards the people. Also by introducing power towards the people, we can set up things like branches in the government to balance out the power between the leader and the people. One of them was the Parliament. The purpose of setting this up was to, as I said before, to balance out the power. Therefore, if the leader won’t get too powerful, nor the parliament will take over the country because their shared equal amount of power.”
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Agricultural tools of the time included sickles, scythes, metal sheathed wooden shovels, rakes, and gardening tools.(1) There is good evidence the Rus' raised vegetables, as well as grains. Flax and hemp were grown for linen, rope, oil, and perhaps recreation.(2) Animals, including cattle, sheep, oxen, pigs, goats, doves, chickens, ducks and swans, were raised for food. Forest products were a mainstay of Russian economic life. All p
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