Context: The decline of Constantinople – a main trading partner of Kievan Rus' – played a significant role in the decline of the Kievan Rus'. The trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks, along which the goods were moving from the Black Sea (mainly Byzantine) through eastern Europe to the Baltic, was a cornerstone of Kiev wealth and prosperity. Kiev was the main power and initiator in this relationship, once the Byzantine Empire fell into turmoil and the supplies became erratic, profits dried out, and Kiev lost its appeal.[citation needed]

Question: What played a major role in the decline of the Rus?
Answer: decline of Constantinople

Question: What terriroty did the trade from the Varangians to the Greeks route mainly go through?
Answer: Byzantine

Question: Which terrirory was the main power in this trade relatinship?
Answer: Kiev

Question: What played a minor rule in the decline of the Rus?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who was not a major trading partner of Kievan Rus?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What territory did the trade fro Varagians to the Greeks mainly avoid?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What was not a major cornerstone of Kiev wealth and prosperity?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who was a minor power and minor initiator?
Answer: Unanswerable