Rus'

Question 1

first town

Answer 1

Staraya Ladoga 750s

Question 2

why not raiding

Answer 2

no nearby towns
no monasteries
very little of value to steal
so instead gathering resources to make a trade route

Question 3

What were they trading

Answer 3

furs and slaves and honey

Question 4

archaeological evidence for rus’

Answer 4

Late 8th - early 9th c. few norse finds outside of Ladoga

Question 5

Original trade route

Answer 5

Volga
ladoga to bulgar to Itil, then across the caspian and then by camel to bagdad

Question 6

why Volga route fell out of use

Answer 6

decline of silver from the abbasid caliphate 11th c.

Question 7

Later trade route

Answer 7

Dneiper
Ladoga to Kiev to the Black Sea (through Pecheneg lands) to Constantinople

Question 8

Attack on Constantinople

Answer 8

860

Question 9

Rurik arrives

Answer 9

862
according to the Russian Primary Chronicle

Question 10

First conversion

Answer 10

Olga, 957 with the Byzantine emperor as her godfather.
Suggestion that she was already christian in Byzantine sources

Question 11

Rurik’s son

Answer 11

Igor. Killed in 945. Married to Olga

Question 12

Igor’s wife

Answer 12

Olga
Ruled after Igor’s death in 945 until c. 960

Question 13

Sviatoslav religion

Answer 13

pagan despite his mother being christian. Said he thought his men would laugh at him

Question 14

Sviatoslav name

Answer 14

first slavic name in the royal family. After this all names are slavic

Question 15

Christians relations with Byzentine

Answer 15

Rus-Byzentine treaty 941, some Rus swore on pagan gods but some swore to the christian god

Question 16

Vladimir conversion date

Answer 16

988

Question 17

Vladimir conversion details

Answer 17

Married Anna sister of the Emperor Basil as a condition of his marrying her.
Or:
Was asked for help suppressing a rebellion by Basil, and agreed on the condition that he could marry Anna. Vlad agreed to convert and convert his people for this to happen. Sent 6000 troops to aid Basil

Question 18

Vladimir before the conversion

Answer 18

had 800 concubines and many pagan statues to gods from different cultures

Question 19

The religion trial

Answer 19

Vladimir asked to be convinced 987
Islam, Latin Christianity, Byzantine Christianity, Judaism

Question 20

Title given to Rus leaders

Answer 20

Khagan (10th to 11th c.) First used 839

Question 21

Early treaty with byzantium

Answer 21

907, no weapons, only enter at one city gate, accompanied by guards and had to have fewer than 50 people