Early Russia - Core Knowledge

Who insisted that Orthodox Christianity become the official religion of Russia?

• Princess Olga

• Peter I/Peter the Great

• Prince Vladimir

• Mikhail Romanov

What was the class of landowning nobles in Russia called?

• principalities

• boyars

• serfs

• czars

Who had to pay tribute to the Vikings?

• Slavs

• Scandinavia

• China

  
  

• Mongols

Who ordered the construction of the Moscow Kremlin?

• Mikhail

• Prince Vladimir

• Ivan III/Ivan the Great

• Boris Godunov

Christianity in early Russia came from

• the Byzantine Empire.

• China.

• Western Europe.

• Lithuania.

The Vikings came to Russia from

• Poland.

• Scandinavia.

• China.

• the Byzantine Empire.

Who was the first czar of a unified Russia?

• Prince Vladimir

• Peter I/Peter the Great

• Mikhail

• Ivan III/Ivan the Great

Which city was called “Window on the West”?

• Odessa

• Kiev

• St. Petersburg

• Moscow

Russian peasants who were forced to work the land are called

• boyers.

• Slavs.

• serfs.

• slaves.

Who ordered the building of St. Basil’s Cathedral?

• Mikhail

• Ivan III/Ivan the Great

• Anastasia

• Ivan IV/Ivan the Terrible