Kievan Rus Flashcards
SG Q#3:
Trace the development of the following empires: the Kievan Rus, Muscovite Russia, the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, the Delhi Sultanate, Mughal Dynasty, the Ottoman Empire, and the Safavid Empire.
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| 350503870 | How did the Kievan Rus come to be? How did control of Kiev allow the Viking leader Oleg to gain more power? | *Slavs invite Vikings to take over & protect them b/c Slavs are not war-like *Vikings territory center around Kiev *use water trade route beside Kiev to spread leadership to towns = united them under him | 0 | |
| 350503871 | Why did the ruler convert to Eastern Orthodox? What happen to those who did not convert? | After seeing the Hagia Sophia → amazed by grandness = thought Orthodox Christianity to be best religion = decided to use this religion to unite its ppl & kill anyone who does not convert | 1 | |
| 350503872 | How did geography influence Kiev? | *Kiev prosper b/c lay on the Dnieper River trade route *River is what connected it to Viking land → allow for Vikings to come to Kiev *Connected Kiev to Byzantine Empire/Constantinople --> lead to conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy | 2 | |
| 350503873 | How did the conversion to Orthodox Christianity bring Byzantine culture to Kievan Rus? Examples (4)? | *adopt rituals & icons from Byzantine priests & bishops *Schools were established for sons of priests & merchants *Byzantine architects build stone churches w/ onion-shaped domes *Monasteries built in towns | 3 | |
| 350503874 | What happened during the Kiev Golden Age? | *establish 1st library in Kiev → encourage spread of learning *organized Kievan legal sys basing off Justinian's code | 4 |