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100
He defeated the Tartars.
Who was Ivan III (The Great)?
100
This city was called the "Window on the west".
What is St. Petersburg?
100
In early Russia, this religion came from Greek Orthodox Missionaries.
What is Christianity?
100
This was a class of wealthy landowners in Russia.
What are Boyars?
100
This group had to pay "tribute" to the Vikings.
Who were the Slavs?
200
He was the Czar known as "The Terrible".
Who was Ivan IV?
200
This place is a beautiful, ornate cathedral located inside the Moscow Kremlin.
What is St. Basil's Cathedral?
200
Ivan III (the Great) ordered the construction of what Moscow fortress?
What is the Kremlin?
200
This term is most closely associated with Peter the Great's reign of "new ideas".
What is Westernization?
200
He was the first Czar of a unified Russia.
Who was Ivan III (the Great)?
300
This Czar traveled through Europe to study European customs during The Renaissance.
Who was Peter the Great?
300
Catherine the Great was born here.
What is Germany?
300
To demonstrate that they were adopting European culture, Peter the Great made Russian men do what?
What is shave their beards?
300
This group spread religion rapidly throughout Russia.
What are "traveling merchants"?
300
Catherine the Great was influenced by ideas from what country?
What is France?
400
I was Russia's first woman ruler.
Who was Sophia?
400
This city was Russia's first warm-water port on the Black Sea.
What is Odessa?
400
Peter the Great protected the lands around St. Petersburg signing a treaty with what country?
What is Sweden?
400
Someone who rules temporarily in place of a monarch.
What is a regent?
400
Catherine the Great considered freeing this group but ultimately didn't.
Who were the Serfs?
500
I signed a peace treaty with the Turks and came to power when my husband died under mysterious circumstances.
Who was Catherine the Great?
500
The Vikings came to Russia from this place.
What is Scandinavia?
500
Serfs were Russian peasants that must do what?
What is "work the land"?
500
This is a flat grassland in eastern Europe.
What is a steppe?
500
The Tartars were a blend of these two tribes, ruling Russia after the Mongols left.
What are the Mongol and Turkic tribes?
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