They traded along Russia's many rivers.
Trade with Constantinople lead to influences such as language, architecture, art, religion, and emperor power.
Because they were connected to the sea, settling vikings came.
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Answer: The Pilgrims were comforted by the news. All this while the Indians came skulking about them, and would sometimes show themselves aloof off, but when any approached near them, they would run away; and once they stole away their tools where they had been at work and were gone to dinner.