[greenwolf]

The only thing that sort of stands out about Siberia is that it's too cold for most living things at present but 10,000 or 15,000 years ago it used to be warmer, and you had herds of mammoths and other large mammals wandering around over it. It could have been some sort of a trade center THEN; anything like that 1000 years ago is just real hard to picture.

[RussianConservative]

Siberia actually much different in climates/terrain then most American think...remember N to S it is 2,000 km.