Kievan Rus was a loose federation of East Slavic and Finnic peoples in Europe from the late ... He extended his control from Novgorod south along the Dnieper river valley to protect trade from Khazar incursions ... In the south, in the area around Kiev, were the Poliane, a group of Slavicized tribes with Iranian origins
The Earth rumbles and a hiss of steam issues from the top of Mt Ruapehu. Are these two events related? Is the earthquake caused by the volcano? Or is the steam caused by the earthquake?
Tectonic plates
When Alfred Wegener first proposed the idea of continental drift (the precursor idea to plate tectonic theory), it didn’t quite explain the full story. While he correctly showed that Africa and South America fitted together, his model wasn’t able to explain the violent forces that occur around the Earth’scrust.
The sun and the planets formed together 4,6 billion years ago from clouds of gas and dust called the solar nebula
The Murray river is the longest river in Australia
Countries were separated by continental drift
