Vocabulary
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What is a sole ruler with complete power?
autocrat
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What word means important?
vital
100
What city was an important center of trade?
Constantinople
100
What is the style of leadership that emerged in Russia?
autocratic
100
What is a word that describes eastern Europe?
diverse
200
What is a holy image?
icon
200
What word means to exceed?
surpass
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What continents did Constantinople link?
Europe and Asia
200
What city became Russia's political center or 3rd Rome?
Moscow
200
What is the name of the group forced to flee persecution in western Europe?
Jews
300
What is a group who share the same language & cultural heritage?
ethnic group
300
What word means victory?
triumph
300
Who is the Byzantine emperor who developed a law code based on the ancient Roman law?
Justinian
300
What is the Russian word for caesar?
czar
300
Jews fled western Europe to a "safe place" or _____ in eastern Europe.
refuge
400
What is great landowning noble?
boyer
400
What word means detailed?
elaborate
400
To beautify Constantinople, Justinian built this church with an arching dome.
Hagia Sophia
400
Which of the following would describe Ivan the Terrible? cooperative ruler, democratic ruler, absolute ruler
absolute ruler
400
What is the country where many Jews fled to?
Poland
500
What is open, treeless grassland?
steppe
500
What word means to steal?
plunder
500
1453 Ottoman Turks defeated Constantinople and know it's ...
Istanbul
500
Name 1 Russian river that provided transportation & trade.
Dnieper or Volga Rivers
500
What are the names of the early eastern European kingdoms?
Poland, Hungary, Serbia
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