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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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