What was the result of the marriage between Basil II's sister Anna and Vladimir I of Kiev?
The Christianization of the Kievan Rus
The fall of the Byzantine Empire
The conversion of Vladimir I to Islam
The start of the Crusades
Answer
The marriage of Anna and Vladimir led to the Christianization of the Kievan Rus and the incorporation of later successor states of Kievan Rus' within the Byzantine cultural and religious tradition.
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