Lesson 1 Russia Emerges

He adopted Eastern Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantines.

• Romanov

• Valdimir

_______ was the first country to adopt Christianity as its official religion, in 301.

• Belarus

• Armenia

• Caucasus

The __________ set up trading settlements along that sea and profited from trade with people in the dense forests to the north.

• Greeks

• Vikings

He/She further expanded the kingdom to the east, south, and west.

• Romanov

• Peter the Great

• Catherine the Great

He/She conquered lands along the Baltic Sea.

• Romanov

• Peter the Great

• Catherine the Great

He/She brought the ideas and technology of western Europe to Russia.

• Romanov

• Peter the Great

• Catherine the Great

In 1613, ______________ became tsar, or ruler of Russia.

• Romanov

• Peter the Great

• Catherine the Great

The Romanov dynasty ruled Russia for the next _____ years.

• 200

• 300

• 400

Starting around 1000, the _______ adopted Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

• Rus

• Mongol

• Vikings

group of families with a common ancestor.

• serf

• clan

• Tsar