Q: In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.
Sentence 1:Her successor Eric of Pomerania was forced by the Swedish noblemen to appoint a constable . Sentence 2:Thus , in 1435 , Karl Knutsson Bonde , a future Swedish king , became the first constable for quite some time .
A:
thus