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The Roman Empire divided into? By who?

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Western and eastern empires by Diocletian

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Capital of Byzantine moved east from Rome, to the Greek city of? Later became?

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Byzantium, later became Constantinople (after emperor Constantine) because he was the one who moved the capital in 330 A.D.

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When did the Western Roman Empire crumble? How?

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5th Century because it was overrun by invading German tribes (the Huns)

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Byzantium (name of the entire eastern empire) and its flourishing capital city, Constantinople, carried on the glory of Rome for how many more years?

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1,000 years

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Who was Justinian?

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High ranking Byzantine nobleman who succeeded his uncle to the throne in 527

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Justinian’s accomplishments?

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  • gained control of almost all the territory that Rome had ever ruled
  • creation of the Justinian Code
  • rebuilt Constantinople
  • built Hagia Sophia
  • head of both church and state
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Justinian’s Code

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After sifting through 400 years of Roman Law, many laws were outdated, so they created a single, uniform code known as the Justinian Code

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Justinian’s Code consisted of which 4 works?

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  • the Code (nearly 5,000 Roman laws are still considered useful)
  • The Digest (quoted and summarized the opinions of Rome’s greatest legal thinkers about the laws)
  • The Institutes (textbook that told law students how to use the laws)
  • The Novellae (New Laws)
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Some areas that Justinian’s Code addressed?

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Marriage, slavery, property, inheritance, women’s rights, and criminal justice

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Justinian’s Code served the Byzantine Empire for how many years?

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900 years

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Who was Theodora?

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An actress, stage dancer, and mistress toa governor

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Theodora converted to monophysitism. What is it?

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branch of orthodox Christianity that says Christ maintains one nature - human to divine

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Who’s mistress, and later wife was Theodora?

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Justinian’s

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Theodora’s political influence

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  • met with foreign diplomats
  • wrote to foreign leaders
  • passed laws
  • built churches
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Nika rebellion

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a mob demanded Justinian be overthrown.

Justinian considered fleeing, but theodora said it is not a good idea to flee

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Theodora and woman’s rights

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  • laws that let a women on stage were abandoned
  • allowed daughters to have equal rights
  • made sure that the children of female slaves were not slaves
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When and how did Theodora die?

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she dies of cancer in 548

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What happened to Justinian’s rule after Theodora’s death?

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Justinian’s rule declined steadily and he passed no major laws for the rest of his reign

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Byzantine art was marked by?

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frescoes and mosiacs

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Justinian had workers who?

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rebuilt Constantinople’s crumbling fortifications

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Justinian’s passion

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church-building

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Hagia Sophia

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“Holy Wisdom” in Greek

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Justinian also built?

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baths, aqueducts, law courts, schools, hospitals, and expanded his palace into a vast complex

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Mese

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middle way (main street)

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Constantinople as a center for trade:

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  • merchant stalls lined streets
  • products sold from Asia, Africa, and Europe
  • food stands sold different types of food
  • acrobats and street musicians performed
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What did the Hippodrome offer?

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chariot races and performance acts

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Hippodrome held how many spectators?

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60,000

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Constantinople as a center for religion

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numerous churches (most famous is the Hagia Sophia)

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In 1204, crusading knights from Europe did what?

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robbed and sacked Constantinople

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What happened to Constantinople in 1453?

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falls to Ottoman Turks (Constantinople was renamed Istanbul)

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In 312, Constantine legalized?

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Christianity (Also moved capital to Byzantium

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Who made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire in 380?

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Theodosius

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Christianity became the dominant religion in?

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The byzantine empire when the western Roman empire fell

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Byzantine Christianity

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Latin Christianity developed in such a way that the Pope became the solidified leader in religious affairs

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Byzantine Christianity differences

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  • enormous religious authority was given to the emperor

- led to eventual problems between the western and eastern churches

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Why did Christianity begin to develop differently in the Western and Eastern empires?

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because of the lack of contact between the 2 regions

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Eastern Orthodox Christianity

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built heritage on the works of early church fathers (even the patriarch bowed to the emperor)

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Emperor Leo III

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Banned the use of icons

39
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Who supported the use of icons?

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western pope

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the pope and patriarch did what to each other?

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threw each other out of the church in a dispute over religious doctrine

41
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Christianity split into east and west. Who was in each?

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East = eastern orthodox church
West = Roman orthodox church
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Orthodox missionaries took their form of Christianity to the?

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Slavs - a group that lived in the forests north of the Black Sea

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The alphabet that missionaries invented for the Slavic languages so they could read the Bible in their native tongue, was called?

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the Cyrillic alphabet

44
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Vikings in Russia

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Small bands of adventurers from the north (called Varangians, or Rus) mixed with the Slavic people living in modern-day Russia - [they were Vikings]

45
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The vikings built forts along which rivers?

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Dnieper, Don, and Volga rivers

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What does legend say about the Viking chief?

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Slavs invited the viking chief Rurik to be their king

47
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Where did the Viking Chief live after becoming king?

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Novgorod (Russia’s first important city)

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Who was Oleg?

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A nobleman from Novgorod who moved south to Kiev (city in Dnieper)

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What did vikings do in Constantinople, and how did they get there?

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From Kiev, vikings could sail by river and sea to Constantinople, and trade for products

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Who married viking nobles?

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vikings married their Slavic subjects and eventually , the line between Slavs and viking vanished

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How did Kiev become linked to Constantinople?

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  • Princess Olga, a member of the Kievan nobility, visited Constantinople
  • She publicly converted to Christianity
  • Governed until her son was old enough to rule
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What did Vladimir, princess Olga’s grandson, do when he came to the throne?

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He sent teams to observe the major religions of the time

53
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Vladimir converted to?

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Byzantine Christianity (made his subjects convert too)

54
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How did Yaroslav (Vladimir’s son) help Kiev after he came to power?

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  • married his daughters and sisters with kings and princes of western Europe to create trade connections
  • created a legal code
  • built libraries and churches
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Kiev’s decline

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  • Yaroslav’s sons tore the state of Kiev apart fighting against each other for territory
  • Crusades disrupted trade
  • Mongols attacked and demolished Kiev and took over
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Mongol influence in Russia

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Isolated Russia from the west thus developing differently

57
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After Russia was occupied by the mongols for 200 years, Russians?

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finally broke free

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Ivan III

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Openly challenged mongol rule, took the title of “Czar” (Caesar), claimed to make Russia the “3rd Rome”

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Ivan refused to?

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pay tribute to the Mongols

60
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Rise of the mongols led to?

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Problems between steppe nomads and settled communities

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Because of scarcities and hardships of their lifestyle, steppe nomads?

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Raided towns and villages to get pasture lands for their herds and resources for survival

62
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Another name for Genghis Khan?

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Temujin

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Genghis khan accepted what title?

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“Universal ruler”

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Genghis khan defeated?

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His rivals one by one

65
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3 Characteristics of Genghis khan’s success?

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  • brilliant organizer
  • gifted strategist
  • used cruelty as a weapon
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Genghis khan - brilliant organizer

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  • Armies of 10,000
  • 1,000-man brigades
  • 100-man companies
  • 10-man squads
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Genghis khan - gifted strategist

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  • used various tricks to confuse the enemy
  • attack, pretend to gallop away, enemies chase, come back and fight
  • gifted horseback riders (ride backwards, shoot bow and arrows)
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Genghis khan - cruelty

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  • terrified enemies into surrender

- if a city refused to open their gates to him, he might kill the entire population when he finally captured it

69
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The Khanates

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  • Mongols who ruled ruthlessly at first, destroying the land and wiping out populations
70
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The khanates later adopted aspects of the cultures they ruled and imposed?

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Stability, law, and order

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The khanates eventually split up due to?

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Cultural differences

72
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Pax Mongolia

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Mongol peace, a period of peace from mid - 1200s to the mid - 1300s

73
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What did the pax Mongolia affect?

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  • Made travel and trade safer

- promoted the exchange of goods and ideas

74
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End of pax Mongolia led to?

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Disorder

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Kublai khan

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  • Grandson of Genghis khan
  • gained control of China in 1279 and united them for the first time in 300 years
  • called his dynasty the “yuan dynasty”
76
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What is Kublai khan known as?

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The great khan

77
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What did Kublai Khan call his dynasty?

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Yuan dynasty

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What did Kublai khan do?

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  • Built palaces in Shangdu and modern-day Beijing
  • moved his capital from Mongolia to China
  • kept mongol identity, but tolerated Chinese culture, and kept Chinese officials in local gov’t
  • gave most high gov’t positions to foreigners (because they believed they were more trustworthy)
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Marco Polo

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  • Venetian trader
  • traveled to China and visited Kublai Khan’s court
  • served Kublai khan for 17 years
  • when returning to Italy, he was imprisoned during a war with a rival city
80
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Mongol Empire: expanded trade

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  • made caravan routes across Asia
  • established mail routes to link China with India and Persia
  • greatly improved trades
  • invited foreign merchants to visit China
81
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Legacy of Yuan dynasty for China

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  • united china
  • expanded foreign companies contacts
  • made few changes to Chinese culture and system of gov’t
82
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Reasons for the fall of Yuan dynasty

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  • Civil discontent: because of famine, floods, and disease
  • economic: problems and official corruption
  • power: struggles among Yuan family members
  • rebellions: of Chinese
83
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Which Russian city was the first to establish major trade connections with Constantinople?

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Kiev

84
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Superior military skills were primarily responsible for the success of the mongol Empire
True or false

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True

85
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After 200 years of mongol occupation became the first czar of Russia

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Ivan III

86
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When the Mongols took control of Russia, the capital was moved from Kiev to?

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Moscow

87
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Genghis khan, use of the stirrup, and excellent horsemanship skills contributed directly to the?

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Rise of the mongol Empire

88
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Towns refusing to give in to the mongols were brutally killed and the towns burned down

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True

89
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How were religious differences treated under mongol rule?

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They tolerated all religions in their Empire

90
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How did peter the great inherit the throne of Russia?

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Family origin

91
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Economically, early Modern Russia was?

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Largely agricultural and dependent on Western trade

92
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Yaroslav the wise help Kiev rise to power with all of the following except?

  • created a legal code
  • Married off sisters and daughters
  • married a mongol princess
  • built libraries and churches
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Married a mongol princess

93
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Vladimir, olga’s grandson, sent teams to study which 4 foreign religions?

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Islam, Judaism, eastern and western Christianity

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