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The largest land empire in history, at its zenith, it

stretched from the border of Poland and Hungary to

the Pacific, from the Arctic Circle to Turkey,

the Persian Gulf, northern India, and the So. China

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The Mongol Empire

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By the end of the 14th century, the other Russian city states had been “cowed” by this one, which secured its position of prominence as the center of Russian

power under Vasili I

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Moscow

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Considered the cradle of Russian civilization precisely because Rurik’s

mom rocker his cradle here

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NOVGOROD

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For 100 years, the Golden Horde maintained direct control and

forced Rurikov princes to travel to this city near the Caspian Sea

to pledge allegiance to the Mongol khan.

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SARI

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Ryazan, Kolomna, Moscow, Vladimir Suzdal

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The Golden Horde laid seige to this series of smaller villages and

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Nomadic warriors and herdspeople from East Asia with

a loosely organized clan structure who, united and

empowered by Genghis Khan, launched a series of invasions

which proved to be a real pain in the pocketbook for the Rus!

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Mongols

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The pair of Orthodox apostles whose “serial method” worked well in

converting the slavs

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Cyril and Methodius

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Rurik, Sineus, and Truvor

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The brothers Rus, assigned to govern the

slavs (depitcted by Viktor Vasnetsov in The

Invasion of the Varangians)

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Late 15th century Orthodox monk who led a movement to get the Church to remove EXTRA CRISPY HERETIC from its menu

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Nils Sorsky

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Kievan prince who resolved the civil war which erupted after the death

of Prince Vladimir

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Jaroslav the Wise

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The Golden Horde’s domination of Russia ended with a big bang in 1452 when they attempted to

invade Moscow and kick Vasili II out but failed.

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SPURIOUS…It’s the nominal start, but

independence from the Mongols is a PROCESS (not

an EVENT) that takes about 30 years!

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The Orthodox Church actually grew in wealth under the

Mongols.

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It’s CURIOUS… but they exempted it from

tribute!

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Aristocratic landowners sided with the NON-POSSESSORS against the

Orthodox Church

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CURIOUS…It’s because they opposed the arbitrary seizure and resdistribution

of land to the Church by the Crown.

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Ivan IV’s concerns regarding widespread conspiracies and

disloyalty were put to rest when the boyars agreed to swear allegiance

to his son Dmitrii in 1553.

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SPURIOUS… Their refusal supported his

suspicions.

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The decline of the Golden Horde was furthered when Vasili II offered KASIMOV, a direct

descendant of Genghis Khan, a princedom within the Russian state, and KASIMOV said, “I

think I ‘KHAN’!”

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CURIOUS

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The 12th century document which details the early history of Kiev; it

describes the events which are considered to be the founding of

Russian civilization

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The Russian Primary Chronicle

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Having nearly tripled the size of the Russian state and ended 250 years

of foreign occupation, Ivan III assumed this title in 1493

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Sovereign of All Russia

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The concentrated campaign of indiscriminate violence and terror which Ivan IV launched against his own people in 1560, following the

mysterious death of his wife, Anastasia

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OPRICHNINA

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Then it celebrated the 1st victory over non-slavic peoples (the Kazans); now it symbolizes

Russian cultural identity

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St. Vasili’s Cathedral in Moscow

(St. Basil’s for St. Basil the Blessed)

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It contains a hundred chapters, but it’s not a book. Ivan IV

established it in 1551 in order to regulate the Orthodox Church and to make sure the Church

was subordinate to the crown.

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The Council of Hundred Chapters

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Baltic and Black

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Two seas which offer Russia access to the

Atlantic Ocean

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1. Retarded Russian political, social, and economic growth

2. Cut off trade with foreign markets

3. Cut off contact with the West, so Russians missed the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment

4. Fomented conditions conducive to authoritarian political culture

5. Devalued womenShow Answer

Negative effects of Mongol domination

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1. Justified divine right of kings

2. Prohibited blood feuds

3. Accepted alcohol consumption

4. Constatinople offered strategic and geopolitical advantages as well as cultural affinity Show Answer

Advantages of Orthodox Christianity (as opposed to Roman Catholicism or Islam)

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Why the Kievan Rus fractured at a generationally multiplicative rate

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APPANAGE: doling out Udels means continual

subdividing of subdivisions

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system of royal succession…

1.in which siblings were eligible for succession prior to children

2.Institutionalized by Jaroslav and ended by Vasili II

The rota system

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Russian Church council which endorsed smoking

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(of HERETICS, of course!)

Synod of 1490

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