Origin of Russia

Vikings and Slavs are the ethnic groups that start this nation...

• USSR

• Russia

• Mongolia

What Ukrainian city is the first "Russian" city?

• Moscow

• Kiev

• Stalingrad

• Leningrad

Which of these is influences that led to Russia being largely Orthodox Christian?

• Princess Olga visited Constantinople and became an Orthodox Christian

• Olga convinced her grandson Vladimir to be Orthodox

• Vladimir required all of Kiev to be baptized

The Mongols invaded in the early 1200's and ruled Russia for

• 10 years

• 100 years

• 200 years

The Mongols dominate Russia and call it the "Golden Horde." What was the main effect of their rule?

• advances in silk production

• military power

• Russia was backward, behind the rest of Europe.

Ivan I moved the capital from Kiev to its present site of ____

• Moscow

• Stalingrad

• St. Petersburg

Ivan III took this title which Russian for Caesar ____

• Baron

• Czar

• Premier

In 1480, Ivan III, the Terrible, led an army to fight the Mongols to a draw which resulted in ___

• freedom for Russia

• Russia became communist