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2000 years ago, the people who later would become the people of Europe wandered the plains of Central Asia. They were rather peaceful tribes who lived on hard work and farming.

Their peacefulness made them easy targets for other, not so peaceful, tribes. By 500 A.D. they were driven westward by hostile Mongolian tribes. They wandered until they came to the plains of Central and Eastern Europe where other unfriendly people imprisoned them and forced them to work as slaves.

Around the year of 620 A.D. the Slavic people got a leader called Samo. Under his leadership they rose and defeated their enemies. Determined to never again be imprisoned they built stone- and wood-fortifications for protection.

Two centuries later, two missionaries named Cyrril and Methodius visited the Slavs and brought Christianity to this pagan people.