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Prehistoric Ukraine as part of the Pontic steppe has been an important factor in Eurasian cultural contact including the spread of the Chalcolithic the Bronze Age Indo-European expansion and the domestication of the horse.Part of Scythia in antiquity and settled by Goths in the migration period Ukraine is also the site of early Slavic expansion and enters history proper with the establishment of the medieval state of Kyivan Rus which emerged as a powerful nation in the Middle Ages but disintegrated in the 12th century.
