RUSSIANS ADAPT BYZANTINE CULTURE (274-278)
People from the forest north of the Black Sea who began trading with Constantinople were known as ____________.
THE LAND OF RUSSIA’S BIRTH
 Russia’s homeland centered around three great rivers: ________________, __________________, ______________
 In the 800s a group of Rus, or ___________________ came down from the north and settled with the Slavs.
SLAVS AND VIKINGS
 Legend says that Viking chief ____________ was invited to be the ___________ of the Slavs.
 In 862, he founded the city of ________________________. Became the early capital of the Russians
 Monks wrote about this event in the _________________________________________.
 In 880 Oleg, a nobleman from Novgorod, moved south to ____________ which allowed the Vikings easier
trading access to the city of _________________________________________.
 The Vikings brought many goods to trade such as: _____________, ____________, ____________, ____________
 They also brought Slavic subjects who they sold as ____________. (that’s where we get the word!)
KIEV BECOMES ORTHODOX
 In 957, Princess Olga visited Constantinople and converted to _____________________________.
 Vladimir, grandson of Olga, comes to the throne in 980 AD and considers converting. He is unsure about which
religion to choose so he: ____________________________________________________________________________
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 Eventually he decides to convert to _______________________________ and makes all his subjects convert to.
 The building that convinced them to convert was more than likely the _________________________________
KIEVAN RUSSIA
 Vladimir expanded the empire from ____________________ to the ______________ sea.
 In 1019, his son __________________________________ came to power and led Kiev to even greater glory
 To forge stronger trading alliances Yaroslav: ____________________________________________________
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 Kiev’s rules that centered mainly around commerce were known as Yaroslav’s __________
 At its height Kiev was said to have ___________ churches as ____________________ prospered
POWER STRUGGLES BRING ON KIEV’S DECLINE
 The decline starts with Yaroslav’s _____________
 The error Yaroslav made was that he: ______________________________________________________________
 His sons reacted by:________________________________________________
+ JUST WHEN THEY THOUGHT THINGS COULDN’T GET ANY WORSE. THEY GOT FAR WORSE!!!
MONGOL INVASIONS FAVOR THE RISE OF MOSCOW
In the mid-1200s a ferocious group of horsemen from central Asia invaded Russia. These nomads were known as the
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 They were led by one of the most feared warriors of ALL TIME: __________________________________
 The reasons for the Mongol invasion centered around two ideas:________________________________________
 Mongols earned a reputation for brutality because of their ____________________ and __________________
 The empire stretched from _____________________________________________________________________
 The events of 1240:
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 They ruled for over ___________ years
 The empire’s official name was the “Khanate of the Golden Horde”
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Khanate meaning: ________________
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Golden because:___________________________________
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Horde meaning:____________________
MONGOL RULE IN RUSSIA
 Even though the Mongols were fierce they did tolerate ___________________________ in their realm
 The church explained the Mongol rule as _______________________ for the people’s __________
 The prince of Novgorod ____________________________________ convinced other nobles to go along with the
Mongols and crush any revolts. At his death he gave his son Daniel the area known as ________________
MONGOL RULE SERVES MOSCOW’S INTERESTS
 In the late 1320s Ivan the first became the most powerful prince by gaining favor with the Mongols after
he:______________________________________________________________________________________________
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 Ivan also became extremely wealthy and received the name ___________________________________
 In order to enhance Moscow’s power Ivan convinced the _________________ to move there. This gave Moscow
an important ally: The________________
 Rulers of Moscow where able to expand their territory through the strategies of:________________________
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AN EMPIRE EMERGES
 As Constantinople falls to the Turks in 1453, a few years later, Ivan III marries a niece of the last Byzantine
emperor. He takes the name ____________, the Russian version of Caesar. With this he openly claims that
Russia is the “THIRD _______________”