Rise of Slavic Eastern Europe

The Vikings that migrated into Eastern Europe predominantly came from:

• England

• Sweden

• Norway

• Denmark

Similar to the story of Western Europe, in Eastern Europe these Vikings and native groups (Avars, Bulgars, Huns, Venedae) would intermarry and grow in the early medieval age to create the largest ethnic group in Europe:

• Vikings
• Slavs
• Franks
• Goths

Northeastern Slavs migrated down the Dnieper River and built this city, which today ranks the second most populated in europe:

• Kiev

• London

• Constantinople

• Moscow

In the 800's AD, this slavic queen was amongst the first of the Slavic nobility to convert to Eastern Christianity:

• Ivana the Terrible
• Catherine the Great
• Olga of Kiev
• Maria Theresa

After the careful study and learning about Western and Eastern Christianity, and Islam, this slavic prince of Kiev chose Eastern Christianity as the mandated religion because of the wealth of Constantinople, the arrogance of Rome, and the strict rules of Islam. His name was:

• Vladimir the Great
• Oleg of Cassini

• Vladimir the Terrible
• Rurik of Novgorod

As Slavs began more trading and communication with Constantinople, the Eastern Christian church saw an opportunity to gain more followers by converting the Slavs. This Orthodox missionary traveled North to Slavic lands, spread orthodox teachings, and created an alphabet for the slavic language.

• Clovis

• Scholastica

• Cyril

• Benedict

Slavic lands north of Constantinople during the early middle ages, would come to be known as The:

• Muscovite Empire
• Byzantine Empire
• Ottoman Empire
• Kievan Rus

Kiev today is the capital of what country:

• Poland

• Slovakia

• Ukraine
• Russia

In 1054 CE, Kiev started to decline in power for a number of reasons. It was during this time, that a group of Slavs LEFT Kiev and began building another great city northwest of Kiev, which sat at the beginning of three great rivers. This city is:

• Moscow
• St. Petersburg
• Novgorod
• Minsk

Technically, based on this reading, what we know as "Russia" today, was born where?

• St. Petersburg
• Kiev
• Siberia
• Moscow