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of political fragmentation and decentralization. The proliferation of many smaller principalities weakened political unity, and by the mid-12th century, the capital Kiev was in decline. The lack of political unity in part facilitated the Mongol conquest. The traditional view has been that Kiev was in economic decline from the mid-12th century; however, some recent historians have instead adopted the view that there was economic expansion in the late Kievan

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