Early Russia

Which was not an accomplishment of Catherine the Great?

• establishing the Orthodox Church as Russia’s official religion

• free education for some Russian boys and girls

• building a warm-water port

• building roads and schools

For hundreds of years, most Russia workers were peasants and worked the land for wealthy landowners.

• True

• False

Early Russian industries included shipbuilding and metalworking.

• True

• False

Which ruler of Russia was born in Germany?

• Peter the Great

• Anastasia Romanova

• Ivan III/Ivan the Great

• Catherine the Great

Which city was Russia’s first warm-water port on the Black Sea?

• St. Petersburg

• Moscow

• Odessa

• Kiev

The Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg was a home of Russian monarchs from 1764 until 1917. Russian Communists famously attacked the building in _____ when they seized power.

• 1800

• 1764

• 1917

• 1910

Modern Russians are descended from East Slavs who migrated from Poland and _______ into western Russia in the a.d. 400s and 500s. They encountered invading Goths from Germany, along with Huns, Avars, Magyars, and Khazars from Asia.

By the 800s, Scandinavian raiders and merchants, called _______, dominated Novgorod, Kiev, and other trading centers. They soon merged with the Slavic population.

• Slavs

• Vikings

• Russians

• Tzars

It was the Rus who gave their name to the first known East Slavic state: the _______ Rus.

• Viking

• Russian

• Slavic

• Kievan

Located in present-day Ukraine, _____ became the region’s economic and cultural center.