Asked by DEDE

Who were the first people to settle in what is now Russia and Ukraine?

Rus
Slavs
Greeks
Vikings

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Greeks.

They founded colonies on the Black Sea coast (e.g. Olbia, Chersonesus) from the 7th–6th century BCE — earlier than the Slavs (who emerge in the early medieval period, c. 6th century CE) and the Vikings/Varangian Rus (9th century CE). Note that long before any of these groups, Paleolithic and Bronze‑Age peoples (Scythians, Sarmatians, etc.) lived in the region.