SAS Webinar
“Ukraine – Its Turbulent History”
by
Paul K. Davis, SAS vice president
Saturday September 9, 2023
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. PT

Paul K. Davis will review the long and difficult history of the modern nation of Ukraine starting at its prehistory and finishing with its current conflict. Ukraine prehistory as a part of the Pontic steppe in Eastern Europe played an important role in Eurasian cultural events, including the spread of the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages, Indo-European migrations and the domestication of the horse. The first written information is about invasion by the Persian Empire. The region supplied grain to ancient Athens, and much of it came to be ruled by the Roman Empire. In the early Middle Ages it was the center of a Jewish kingdom, which was then conquered by Vikings, who in turn were subjugated by the Mongols. In modern times it has sometimes been independent, but mostly fought over by Polish, Turkish, Austrian and Russian Empires. In the 1930s it was victim of the Holodomor, the second greatest genocide after the Nazi Holocaust of Jews. Now it again defends itself from imperial aggression.