Byzantine Empire Saved by Vladimir the Great's Vikings

[00:00:00]There was no way. It was no hope without them. Cuz he couldn't trust his own troops or something, right? He He couldn't He couldn't trust his own troops because he just got betrayed by his closest allies in essence. And then fortunately it was Vladimir the Great decided he'd convert to Christianity just at the moment of which he was about to go and he he sent like I think it was I can't remember how many troops it was.

[00:00:21]Was it maybe 30,000 or 50,000? It was an insane number of troops that he sent and they just kind of then stayed with him and just they were gift almost to be like, "Hey, I'm Christian, too. Here's a gift." And this Vladimir was like the prince of Kiev or something like that?

[00:00:35]Is that what >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Prince of Kiev.

[00:00:38]Kievan prince and he was yeah. And that's how he got the the nickname of Vladimir the Great because of his conversion to Christianity and him saving of the Orthodoxy and Fair enough.

[00:00:46]Yeah, so there you go. So the impact that these Vikings would have like in the be it themselves or their generations later down the line are massive. We talked about the huge impacts on the West and they're actually in some ways you could argue they're I'd say more impactful to towards the East and the Eastern Europe's identity and stuff like that which are in the Middle Ages and stuff. So that's really interesting. But I mentioned Baghdad