The mongols invaded russia and the Mongols reached the edges of the Rus settlements, they sent messengers requesting peaceful submission and trade. The Rus themselves were no strangers to such messengers, as they had once sent them to Constantinople demanding tribute. Upon reaching the main city of the Rus, Kiev, the messengers were executed. The message to the Mongols was simple - the Rus would never peacefully submit. Mongols really didn't leave the Rus too much choice in the matter. Within a decade, smoking ruins were all that was left of much of the Rus's cities, from great centers like Kiev and Novgorod to tiny trading posts like Moscow. The Mongols would suffer no insult, and would win, whether peacefully or through other means.
<span>golden age</span>Word OriginSee more synonyms on Thesaurus.com <span>noun <span>the most flourishing period in the history of a nation, literature, etc.<span><span>Classical Mythology. </span>the first and best of the four ages of humankind; an era of peace and innocence that finally yielded to the silver age.</span><span><span><span>(usually initial capital letters)</span> </span>a period in Latin literature, 70 b.c. to a.d. 14, in which Cicero, Catullus, Horace, Vergil, Ovid, and others wrote; the first phase of classical Latin.<span>Compare <span>silver age(def 2)</span>.</span></span></span></span>
Answer: Drowned themselves to avoid slavery
Explanation:
Olaudah Equiano was 10 years old when he was kidnapped from his people and sold into slavery. After being bounced around from slaver to slaver he eventually ended up in Virginia where he earned his freedom and went on to become a missionary.
Mr. Equiano in recounting how his journey mentioned how in crossing the Atlantic to the Caribbean, the slaves on the ship were badly mistreated. In one instance, the traders did some fishing and after eating and filling themselves, they tossed the remaining fish back in the seas rather than feed their captives.
Two of Equiano's “wearied countrymen” who were chained together could no longer stand the situation and with probable knowledge of situations being worse where they were headed to, jumped overboard into the ocean because they preferred death to the slavery that awaited.
