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Around what time did the Khazars unable to no longer command tribute from Volga?
10th century
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Who did the Byzantium ally with against the Khazar's?
Pechenegs
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What did the Pechenges trade with the Rus?
livestock
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In what year did the Rus attack Constantinople?
860
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What had Prince Rastislav requested?
provide teachers
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What did Cyril and Mehodius come up with to help with the issue of the Slaves not having a written language?
devised the Glagolitic alphabet
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In what year did the Rus accept a bishop?
867
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When did the relations between the Rus and Byzantines start to become more complicated?
after Oleg took control over Kiev
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What were the primary concerns the Rus and Byzantines had with oleg?
commercial, cultural, and military concerns
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When did the Rus attack the Constantinole once again?
907
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What known document tells of the death of Oleg?
The Chronicle
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What was prophesised by a sorcerer involving Oleg's death?
certain horse
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What does Oleg do to his horse?
has the horse sequestered
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WHo succeeded Oleg in 913?
Prince Igor
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What year did Igot led a Rus attack on Constantinople?
941
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How large was the fleet that attacked the Bithynian coast along with the Pecheneg allies?
10,000 vessels
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Why did the attack by the Rus go so well on the coast at the start?
Byzantine fleet was occupied with the Arabs
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What did the emperor of Byzatine do to some of the old retired ships to help fight the Rus?
outfitted with Greek fire throwers
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Where did Igor get warriors from after returning to Kiev after being drivin out by the Byzatines?
Slavs and Pecheneg allies
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When did the Rus return to Byzatine seeking revenge?
944
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IN what year was the peace treaty signed between the Rus, Byzantine and the Bulgarians.
945
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When did Prince Igor past away?
945
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Who ruled in Prince Oleg's place following his death?
his wife Olga
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In what year did Sviatoslav take over as leader?
963
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Where did Sviatoslav move the capital to?
Pereyaslavets
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What year did Sviatoslav pass away?
972
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How long did the region of Kiev dominate the State of the Rus?
two centuries
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What years did Vladimir the Great reign as leader?
980–1015
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What territory was Vladimar Prince of before his father died?
Novgorod
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In 976, where did Vladimir have to flee to?
Scandinavia
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When did the Christianization of Kievan begin?
988
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Who did Vladimir marry that was the sister of the Byzantine emperor?
Princess Anna
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What was considered too be Kiev's most important route for trade?
Dnieper River
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What language did the church write the liturgy in?
Cyrillic
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What did this literature help with that was written in Cyrillic?
facilitated the conversion to Christianity
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What was Yaroslav also known as?
the Wise
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Who was Yaroslav's father?
Vladimir the Great
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In what year did Yaroslav become the prince of Kiev?
1019
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What was the name of the UN-conventional system that was implemented?
rota system
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What did the rota system do?
power was transferred to the eldest member
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What was often deployed when trying to gain power?
Familicide
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What immediately occurred after Yarsolav the Wise past away?
conflict
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Who was fighting for Tmutarakan following Yarsolav's death?
Rostislav Vladimirovich
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What country did the fleeing Grand Prince run off to?
Poland
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Where did the first federal council of Rus take place in 1097?
city of Liubech
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What played a major role in the decline of the Rus?
decline of Constantinople
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What terriroty did the trade from the Varangians to the Greeks route mainly go through?
Byzantine
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Which terrirory was the main power in this trade relatinship?
Kiev
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Who was the last ruller to keep the region united?
Mstislav the Great
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When did Mstislav die?
1169
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When did the Kievan state break up into twelve seperate principalities?
12th century,
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What helped speed up the decline of the Kievan Rus?
The Crusades
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In what year did the Crusade sack Constantinople?
1204
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What group was attacking the the Baltic Region in 1204?
Teutonic Knights
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Why was the Republic of Novgorod doing so well while the Kievan Rus declined?
it controlled trade routes
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What happened to Novgorod when Kievan Rus began to decline?
became more independent
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In what year did Novgorod aquire its own archbishop?
1169
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The Slavs from Kievan would eventually settle in the North East of the region, What would this region later become?
Grand Duchy of Moscow
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What was the name of the oldest city in the north east?
Rostov
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In what year did the mongol invasion begin?
In 1299
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Which neighbors did Halych develop trade relations with?
Polish, Hungarian and Lithuanian
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Who united the two previously separated principalities?
Prince Roman Mstislavich
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In what year did Mstislavich defeat the Kiev?
1202
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Who became metropolitan in 1370?
Cyprian
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How did the leader of Kiev gain political control?
Due to the expansion of trade
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From what did this new princedom emerge from?
from a coalition of traditional patriarchic family communes
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What type of government came from the coalition of traditional patriachic family?
first notable form of self-government
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Which two groups dominated the society of Kievan Rus?
mixture of Slavic and Scandinavian elites
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What was severely lacking in Kievan in the 12th century?
class institutions and autonomous towns
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What was the group called that owed labour duty to the princes?
tribute-paying peasants
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What eventually led to the creation of the peasant/smerdy class?
change in political structure
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When did wages on the manors develop?
1031
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What were the smerdy initially given in the Kievian law code?
given equality
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Despite being much smaller than wester europe, what they known for being?
the largest contemporary European state
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What could you find in Novgorod that you couldn't in most other cities?
sewage system and wood paving
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What were some of the rights women had during this time period?
property and inheritance rights
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To which dynasty did Yarolav's step mother belong to?
Macedonian dynasty
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Which three countried did Yaroslav's daughters become queens of?
Hungary, France and Norway
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Who did Yaroslav's sons marry?
daughters of a Polish king and a Byzantine emperor
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How early did the relationship begin between the Pecheneg and the Rus?
9th century
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What did the Pecheneg frequesntly do over the span of two centuries?
sporadic raids into the lands of Rus
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What year did the Pechenges attack the city of Kiev?
968
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Whichgroup was known to support the Pecheneges in their military efforts?
Byzantine Empire
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Although uncertian, who is considered to be the first head of Kiev?
Michael I
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Who was considered to be the first bishop of the Church of the Titches?
Leontiy
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When was the SNES released in the US?
1991
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Where was the SNES first released?
Japan and South Korea
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What was the SNES called in Japan?
Super Famicom
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What was the SNES called in South Korea?
Super Comboy
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When was the SNES released in Australia?
1992
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What was NEC's competitor to the NES called in Japan?
PC Engine
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What was Sega's competitor to the NES called in Japan?
Mega Drive
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What was NEC's competitor to the NES called in the US?
TurboGrafx-16
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What was Sega's competitor to the NES called in the US?
Genesis
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What were the Genesis's advantages over the NES?
built on 16-bit architectures and offered improved graphics and sound
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Who designed both the NES and SNES?
Masayuki Uemura
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How much in yen did the Super Famicom cost in Japan?
¥25,000
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How much in dollars did the Super Famicom cost in Japan?
US$210
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How many Super Famicoms were produced in the first run?
300,000
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What criminal group plotted to steal Super Famicoms?
the Yakuza
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