The Founding
Kievan Rus
Mongol Rule
Rise of Moscow
Post Soviet Russia
100
A nomadic tribe of horseman who expanded their territorial control considerably northward as they subjected the Slavic peoples to their rule @ 200 B.C.E.
Who are the Scythians?
100
This is the date that Kievan Rus was founded.
What is 882?
100
An appanage was an estate, title, or office granted by royalty under this right of the firstborn to inherit everything. Double points if you can name the Russian term for these perks.
What is primogeniture? Extra: What are udles?
100
This leader was appanaged "The Grand Prince of Moscow" and therefore became the new royal line after the decay of Mongolian rule.
Who is Vasili I?
100
The first democratically elected president of Russia. Served from 1991-1999.
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
200
The death of this leader in 453 c.e. resulted in the Slavic peoples first real chance for self governance.
Who is Attila the Hun?
200
The First Rurikovich prince.
Who was Oleg?
200
The herds-people from East Asia were united and empowered under the rule of this man.
Who is Genghis Khan?
200
This leader prevailed to lead Russia away from the Mongolian Empire by being a direct descendant of Genghis Khan and being an appanaged prince within the Russian state.
Who is Vasili II?
200
These policies were designed to quickly remove state control over the economy and included measures such as radical privatization, currency devaluation, and fiscal restructuring.
What is "shock therapy"?
300
The Northwestern region was split by these two tribes around 200 c.e.
What are Ostrogoths and the Visigoths?
300
These two cities vied for power over Kiev Rus.
What are Novgorod and Kiev?
300
After leveling Ryazan, Kolomna, Moscow, and Vladimir-Suzdal by the end of February 1238 this man led the Golden Horde on a circuitous march through the lands of Kievan Rus, ransacking and pillaging nearly every city in their path before destroying the city of Kiev in 1240.
Who is Baty Khan?
300
This leader took power at twenty-two years of age and was able to use his shrewd political skills to reunify Russia under a single administrative authority.
Who is Ivan the Great?
300
This economist from the United States and the IMF helped to design the ECE state financial policies.
Who is Jeffery Sachs?
400
This Asiatic tribe brutally subjected the Slavs to their control around 560 c.e.
Who are the Avars?
400
Novgorod was absorbed by the burgeoning Moscow state during this period.
What is the Appanage Period?
400
The Golden Horde maintainded direct control over Russia for this many years.
What is 200?
400
Moscow became the religious capital of Russia in this year.
What is 1326?
400
After the 1992 Constitutional crisis, Yeltsin and group of reformers drafted this document which was adopted by popular vote on December 12, 1993.
What is the 1993 Constitution?
500
This twelfth-century document details the early history of Kiev where the fractured and quarreling Slavic people invited a group of Varangians known as the Rus to impose order.
What is 'The Russian Primary Chronicle'?
500
The Primary Chronicle reports that this prince introduced Othodox Christianity to Kiev Rus in 1000 c.e.
Who is prince Vladimir?
500
These four impacts resulted from Mongolian rule over Russia. (500 pts for each)
1. What is centralized control from Kiev? 2. What is the destruction of Kiev paved the way for rule from Moscow? 3. What is the destruction of artisan skills and draining of wealth? 4. What is the exaggeration of/ reinforcement of the division of classes?
500
Moscow became the center of Russian political power for these three reasons. (500 pts per reason)
What is geographical? What is leadership? What is religious?
500
The lower chamber of the Russian Federal Assembly is called the State Duma and is composed of representatives selected in this way.
What is proportional representation?
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