fort built in moscow center of the russian government

FORT BUILT IN MOSCOW

CENTER OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT

KREMLIN

LARGEST CULTURAL GROUP OF WESTERN

EUROPE

THE SLAVS

THE ALPHABET USED BY THE

RUSSIANS

CYRILLIC ALPHABET

THE CENTER OF EARLY

RUSSIA

KIEV

THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION OF

RUSSIA

RUSSIANORTHODOX

CHURCH

THE COUNTRY BETWEEN RUSSIA

AND THE BLACK SEA

UKRAINE

THE SLAVS USED THIS WORD TO DESCRIBE THE

VIKINGS AND THE AREA THAT THEY

RULED

RUS

TITLE FOR THE RULER OF

RUSSIA

CZAR

ASIAN TRIBE WHO INVADED RUSSIA

THEY WOULD CONTROL SOUTH

RUSSIA FOR 200 YEARS

MONGOLS

CAPITAL CITY OF RUSSIA

MOSCOW

MOSCOW WAS CONSIDERED THE

_______ __________

( ROME & CONSTANTINOPLE & MOSCOW)

THIRD ROME

THIS RIVER RUNS FROM CENTRAL

UKRAINE TO THE BLACK SEA - KIEV IS LOCATED HERE

DNEIPER RIVER

THIS RIVER RUNS FROM CASPIAN SEA

TO CENTRAL RUSSIA

VOLGARIVER

THE LARGE PLAIN NORTH OF THE

BLACK SEA

STEPPE

TERRITORIES IN RUSSIA RULED BY

PRINCES

PRINCIPALITIES

POLAND, CZECHS, SLOVAKS ARE CONSIDERED ______________

SLAVS

WESTERN

SERBS, CROATS, SLOVENES AND

BOSINA ARE CONSIDERED

______________ SLAVS

SOUTH

A COLLECTION OF EASTERN SLAVIC

HISTORY AND LEGEND

PRIMARY CHRONICLE

THE ARISTOCRACY (NOBLES AND

WEALTHY MERCHANTS) IN

RUSSIA

BOYARS

NORTHERN CITY IN RUSSIA

NOVGOROD

UKRAINIANS, RUSSIANS

AND BELARUSSIANS

BYZANTINE AND ASIAN INFLUENCE

EASTERN

VIKING LEADER WHO WAS ASKED AND

AGREED TO RULE THE SLAVS AROUND THE AREA OF NOVGOROD

RURIK

HE SUCCEEDED RURIK

HE CONQUERED KIEV

OLEG

HE WAS THE PRINCE OF KIEV

HE CONVERTED HIS PEOPLE TO ORTHODOX

CHRISTIANITY

VLADIMIR

RULER OF KIEV WHEN IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST

ADVANCED CITIES IN EUROPE

HE ENCOURAGED CONTACT WITH OTHER NATIONS

YAROSLAV

PRINCE OF NOVGOROD

ALEXANDERNEVSKY

SON OF ALEXANDER

HE BECAME RULER OF MOSCOW

DANIEL

HE WAS CALLED “THE GREAT” BECAUSE HE

ENDED MONGOL CONTROL OVER RUSSIA

AND EXPANDED MOSCOW’S TERRITORY

IVAN III