Column 1
What was the class of landowning nobles in Russia called?
A. principalities
B. boyars
C. serfs
D. czars
B. boyars
Who was the first czar of a unified Russia?
A. Prince Vladimir
B. Peter I/Peter the Great
C. Mikhail
D. Ivan III/Ivan the Great
D. Ivan III/Ivan the Great
Russian peasants who were forced to work the land are called
A. boyars
B. Slavs
C. serfs
D. slaves
C. serfs
Who ordered the construction of the Moscow Kremlin?
A. Mikhail
B. Prince Vladimir
C. Ivan III/Ivan the Great
D. Boris Godunov
C. Ivan III/Ivan the Great
Who ordered the building of St. Basil's Cathedral?
A. Mikhail
B. Ivan III/Ivan the Great
C. Anastasia
D. Ivan IV/Ivan the Terrible
D. Ivan IV/Ivan the Terrible
The Vikings came to Russia from
A. Poland
B. Scandinavia
C. China
D. the Byzantine Empire
B. Scandinavia
Who had to pay tribute to the Vikings?
A. Slavs
B. Scandinavia
C. China
D. Mongols
A. Slavs
Christianity in early Russia came from
A. the Byzantine Empire
B. China
C. Western Europe
D. Lithuania
A. the Byzantine Empire
Who was Russia's first woman ruler?
A. Sophia
B. Anastasia Romanovna
C. Catherine the Great
D. Princess Olga
D. Princess Olga
Who insisted that Orthodox Christianity become the official religion of Russia?
A. Princess Olga
B. Peter I/Peter the Great
C. Prince Vladimir
D. Mikhail Romanov
C. Prince Vladimir
Which czar traveled through Europe to study European customs?
A. Ivan III/Ivan the Great
B. Ivan IV/Ivan the Terrible
C. Catherine the Great
D. Peter the Great
D. Peter the Great
Which city was called "Window on the West"?
A. Odessa
B. Kiev
C. St. Petersburg
D. Moscow
C. St. Petersburg
Which ruler forced many Russian men to shave their beards?
A. Prince Vladimir
B. Ivan III/Ivan the Great
C. Peter the Great
D. Ivan IV/Ivan the Terrible
C. Peter the Great
Which of the following is NOT associated with Peter the Great's reign?
A Westernization
B. travel in Europe
C. conversion to the Gregorian/European calendar
D. limitations on the czar's power
D. limitations on the czar's power
Which ruler of Russia was born in Germany?
A. Peter the Great
B. Anastasia Romanova
C. Ivan III/Ivan the Great
D. Catherine the Great
D. Catherine the Great
Who considered freeing the serfs but did not?
A. Prince Vladimir
B. Peter the Great
C. Catherine the Great
D. Ivan IV/Ivan the Terrible
C. Catherine the Great
Which city was Russia's first warm-water port on the Black Sea?
A. St. Petersburg
B. Moscow
C. Odessa
D. Kiev
C. Odessa
Which was NOT an accomplishment of Catherine the Great?
A. establishing the Orthodox Church as Russia's official religion
B. free education for some Russian boys and girls
C. building a warm-water port
D. building roads and schools
A. establishing the Orthodox Church as Russia's official religion
a group of countries or territories under the control of one government or ruler
A. serf
B. empire
C. steppe
D. kremlin
B. empire
the title of an emperor of Russia
A. serf
B. reign
C. Slav
D. czar
D. czar
a central fortress built to protect a Russian city
A. kremlin
B. empire
C. steppe
D. tribute
A. kremlin
to rule over a country
A. tribute
B. empire
C. reign
D. serf
C. reign
a person who belongs to an ethnic group of people that settled in Eastern Europe many years ago; includes Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, and Czechs
A. serf
B. Slav
C. czar
D. steppe
B. Slav
a peasant who is not free; a person living on a feudal estate who was required to work for the lord of the manor
A. Slav
B. reign
C. czar
D. serf
D. serf
payment of money or goods by a people or their ruler to another country or ruler in exchange for potection
A. tribute
B. steppe
C. kremlin
D. reign
A. tribute