Core Knowledge Imperial Russia

The Vikings came to Russia from

• a) Poland.
• b) Scandinavia
• c) China
• d) the Byzantine Empire.

Who had to pay tribute to the Vikings?

• a) Slavs
• b) Scandinavia
• c) China
• d) Mongols

Christianity in early Russia came from

• a) the Byzantine Empire.
• b) China.
• c) Western Europe.
• d) Lithuania.

Who was Russia’s first woman ruler?

• a) Sophia
• b) Anastasia Romanovna
• c) Catherine the Great
• 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

What was the class of landowning nobles in Russia called?

• a) principalities
• b) boyars
• c) serfs
• d) czars

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

Russian peasants who were forced to work the land are called

• a) boyars.
• b) Slavs.
• c) serfs.
• d) slaves.

Who ordered the construction of the Moscow Kremlin?

• a) Mikhail
• b) Prince Vladimir
• c) Ivan III/Ivan the Great
• d) Boris Godunov

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