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Eastern Slavs
Ch. 23 Eastern Slavs
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Slash-and-burn | 1) farming method. 2) they cut down trees (burned them for fertilizer), on the land they planted crops. |
| Varangian Route | route from the Varangians to the Greeks. |
| Kiev | stood on a group of hills, and was the southenmost town on the Varangian trading route |
| Vladimir I | 1) strong ruler. 2) good soldier. 3) Prince of Kiev. 4) expanded Kievan Rus territory. 5) chose Christianity as official religion. |
| Yaroslav the Wise | 1) son of Vladimir. 2) grand prince of Kiev in 1019. 3) very interested in learning. |
| khan | Mongol leader |
| kremlin | Russian fortress |
| Czar | Russian ruler |
| Ivan the Great | 1) Prince of Moscow. 2) married Sofia, the niece of the last Byzantine emperor. 3) called himself Czar. 4) died in 1505. |
| izbas | one-room log cabin with a gabled roof and wooden window frames |
| Great Mother | goddess of the land and harvest |
| Perun | god of thunder and lightning |
| boyars | members of the wealthy class in czarist Russia |
| veche | Russian town assembly |
| Mongols | gave the princes of Moscow the power to collect taxes throughout the country |
| Oprichnina | secret police or soldiers of terror |