Born Then1580–1700
Life during the Russian conquest of Siberia
Be born in a place it hit, a few years before it began, and see what it did to five ordinary lives.
What it meant for ordinary people
From Yermak's campaign against the Khanate of Sibir in 1580, Cossacks and traders pushed across Siberia to the Pacific within about sixty years. They built forts and forced native peoples to pay a tribute in furs, the yasak, often by taking hostages. New diseases and violence hit many groups hard.
Deaths: unknown; war and smallpox reduced several peoples sharply.
How hard it hits each person in the game (risk of death, of being conscripted, of leaving) comes from our model, estimated from the sources.
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