quiz 1

Question 1

The Primary Chronicles

Answer 1

compiled by monks in the eleventh century, recounting that since there was no order among slavic tribes in the 800s, they invited a Varangian named Riurik and his two brothers to come rule over them

Question 2

Varangians

Answer 2

term used for swedish viking

Question 3

Riurik

Answer 3

earliest known leader of the Rus

Question 4

Obshchina

Answer 4

a farming commune that usually consisted of several extended families

Question 5

Boyar

Answer 5

fighting men in Kiev, served particular princes

Question 6

Smerdy

Answer 6

peasants

Question 7

Vladimir the Christianizer

Answer 7

rules from 978-1015

Question 8

Sobornost

Answer 8

means “spirit of the congregation”

Question 8

Veche

Answer 8

a town council dominated by merchants

Question 9

Boyar duma

Answer 9

a body of the highest-rankings nobles who in theory advised the prince

Question 9

Saints Cyril and Methodius

Answer 9

developed a written language that was based on greek but transcribed the spoken slavic language quite well

Question 10

Golden Age of Kievan Russia

Answer 10

a period of almost three centuries that began in 988, when the region was Christianized, and ended in 1240

Question 11

Yaroslav (Iaroslav) the Wise

Answer 11

prince of the kiev 1019-1054

Question 12

Tatars (Tartars)

Answer 12

an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name “Tatar” across Eastern Europe and Asia

Question 13

Lord Novgorod the Great

Question 14

Temuchen/Chengiz Khan/Genghis Khan

Answer 14

founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire

Question 15

Golden Horde

Answer 15

rule by charter lasting from 1240-1480

Question 15

Batu Khan-

Answer 15

grandson of ghenghis khan

Question 16

Yarlyk

Answer 16

charter of authority

Question 17

Alexander Nevsky

Answer 17

national hero in Russia because he defeated the german order of Teutonic Knights, was permitted to rule novgorod and assume title of grand prince as long as he acknowledged Mongol overlordship

Question 18

Pantocrat

Answer 18

-a title of Christ represented as the ruler of the universe, especially in Byzantine church decoration

Question 19

Latin heresies

Answer 19

“school of thought or sect,”