Geography of Eastern Europe
This mountain range divides Europe and Asia
What is the Ural Mountians?
This was the capital city of the Eastern Roman Empire.
What is Constantinople?
The modern Russian language uses this alphabet which was developed by Byzantine missionaries.
What is Cyrillic?
The Balts were eventually assimilated into this group of people.
Who are the Slavs?
Hagia Sophia was built by this famous Byzantine Emperor.
Who was Justinian?
This sea has warm sunny beaches and borders Italy.
What is the Adriatic Sea?
While people of the Western Roman Empire spoke Latin, the people of the Eastern Roman Empire mostly spoke this language.
What is Greek?
Because it was a better location for trade, the Rus moved their capital from Novgorod to this city.
What is Kiev?
These early people were descendants of Viking settlers.
Who are the Rus?
After ending Mongol rule, he became the first Czar.
Who is Ivan III?
This type of plant is common in the Tundra region of Russia.
What is mosses
Constantinople was built on the site of an old Greek trading city called this.
What is Byzantium?
Modern Russia developed from this language.
What is Slavonic?
Some people in this country still refer to themselves as Magyars.
Where is Hungary?
This Rus Viking became King of the Slavs because they could not agree on a King from their own people.
Who is Rurik?
This is the largest inland sea in the world.
What is the Caspian Sea?
For this reason Byzantine Emperors were more powerful then Western European Emperors.
What is they were head of both church and state.
Early Russians traded these 3 products with it trading partners in Europe.
What are fur, honey, and wax?
The Slavs settled in these 4 present day countries.
What are Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic?
This early Keivian ruler introduced a legal system and created military alliances with western European nations.
Who was Yaroslav the Wise?
This sea is fed by the Danube river.
What is the Black Sea?
He was an old Byzantine historian who recorded how Justinian spent the money he collected in taxes
Who was Procopius?
During this period in Russian history domes on churches became even more elaborate with onion shaped domes that flared out from a narrow base.
What is the Muscovite period?
These 3 groups threatened the Byzantine Empire.
Who are the Huns, the Muslims, and the Persians?
He divided the Roman Empire into two halves(dioceses) in the late 200s because he feared the whole empire had become too large.
Who was Emperor Diocletian?