catergoy 1
The title of an emperor in Russia
what is a czar
what is a Kremlin
A person who belongs to an ethnic group of people that settled in eastern Europe many years ago
who are the slavs
A rule over a country as czar, king or queen
what is reign
A peasant who is not free
what is serf
A steppe
what is a grassland plain
The Vikings came to Russia from
What is Scandinavia
Had to pay tribute to the vikings
Who are the Slavs
Christianity in early Russia came from
What is the Byzantine empire
Russia's first woman ruler
Who is Princess Olga
Insisted that Orthodox christianity became the offical religion of Russia
Who is Prince Vladimir
The class of landowning nobles in Russia
Who are the boyars
Forced men to shave their beards
Who is Peter the great
Russia's first warm water port on the Black Sea
What is Odessa
"Window of the West"
What is St. Petersburg
Czar traveled through Europe to study Europen customs
Who is Peter the great
ordered the building of St. Basil's cathedral
Ivan IV/ Ivan the terrible
Ruler of Russia born in Germany
Who is Catherine the great
Ordered the construction of teh Moscow Kremlin
Ivan III/ Ivanthe great
Catherine the great considered but did not do
What is free the serfs
empire
A group of countries or territories under the control of one government ruler.
Three things Catherine the Great accomplished
1. Free education for some Russian boys and girls
2. building a warm water pot
3. building roads and schools
Three things associated with Peter the great's reign
1. westernization
2. travel in Europe
3. conversion to the Gregorian/European calendar
First czar of a unified Russia
Ivan III
tribute
what is payment of money or goods by a person or their ruler to another coountry or ruler in exchange for protection