Chapter 14: Russia

Front

What mountain range separates European Russia from Asian Russia?

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Ural Mountains

Front

Who were the first people to settle Russia?

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Slavs

Front

What was the name of the Viking people that settled Novgorod and the region of modern Ukraine?

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Rus

Front

Who was the grand prince who brought the Christian Faith to Kiev? From what Christian city did missionaries come to Kiev?

Back

Vladimir the Great, Constantinople

Front

What eastern people defeated the Russian princes in 1223 and ruled Russia from the Golden Horde for about 100 years? Who was the prince of Moscow who refused to pay tribute to these invaders and defeated them in battle in 1378?

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Mongols, Dmitri Donskoy

Front

What titles did Ivan the Great take after his marriage to the niece of the last Byzantine emperor?

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Tsar of All Russia

Front

What is the name for Ivan the Great’s fortress-palace in Moscow?

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Kremlin

Front

After Constantinople fell to the Turks, the Russian Church developed the doctrine that Moscow was the ______, because it was the new center of the true Christian Church.

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Third Rome

Front

Who was the tsar who ruled ruthlessly, established the secret police, tortured his enemies, killed his son, and abandoned his Christian faith for witchcraft?

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Ivan the Terrible

Front

Who was the tsar who brought western technology and thought to Russia in the 1700s?

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Peter the Great