People
This was the name given to the wealthy landowners in early Russia.
Who were the boyars?
He was the csar who orderd the building of the multi-colored, onion-domed St. Basil's cathedral in Moscow.
Who was Ivan IV or Ivan the Terrible?
This was the name given to a ruler in early Russia.
What is csar/tzar?
Christiany came to Russia via this group of people based in Constantinople, Turkey.
What was the Byzantine Empire?
This is the name of the csar who ordered the Moscow Kremlin to be built.
Who was Ivan III or Ivan the Great?
He was the first man named csar who was able to unify all of Russia.
Who was Ivan III or Ivan the Great?
It was in the city of Odessa that this long-searched-for trading option finally came to be.
What is a warm water port?
This was the name given to the central fortress in a Russian city.
What is a kremlin?
Peter the Great ordered for Russian men to do this in order to avoid paying a tax.
What is shave their beards?
He was the csar who made it a point to travel to and through Europe to to observe their customs.
Who was Peter the Great?
True or False:
Cathrine the Great is responsible for establishing the Orthodox Church as Russia's official religion.
False
She advanced education, trade, and infrastructure, like roads, but she did not establish an official religion of Russia.
This is where the Vikings came from.
What is Scandinavia?
This is the word that means a grassland plain.
What is steppe?
This ruler of early Russia examined whether or not to free the nation's serfs, but decided against it.
Who was Catherine the Great?
True or False:
Peter the Great made Russia more European, converted the old Gregorian calendar into the new European calendar, and placed limitations on how much power a csar could have?
False
Though he did the first two things, he did not put any limits on the amount of power a csar could hold.
She was the first woman to rule Russia.
Who was Princess Olga?
Germany was actually the birthplace of this Russian ruler.
Who was Catherine the Great?
This is what we call a group of countries or territories under the control of one government or ruler.
What is an empire?
This is the ethnic group who had to pay taxes, or tributes, to the Vikings.
Who were the Slavs?
This was the name given to the peasants who were forced to work the land belonging to the wealthy landowners.
Who were serfs?
This was the name given to a person in early Russia who was not free, who lived on a plot of feudal land, and was required to to word for the lord of the manor.
What is a serf?
The "Window on the West" refers to this Russian city.
What is St. Petersburg?
This is the word that means to rule over a country, or the length of a ruler's rule.
What is reign?
This is the person who insisted that all of Russia abandon its old religions and become Christian.
Who was Prince Vladimir?
This is what we call the payment of money or goods in exchange for freedom or protection.
What is a tribute?