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Chapter 9, Section 2
Section 2
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Steppe | open, treeless grass-land |
| Kiev | the capital of present-day Ukraine |
| Cyrillic | type of alphabet which is still used in Russia |
| Golden Horde | what Mongols that advanced into Russia were known as; they burned Kiev and ruled Russia for the next 240 years |
| Ivan the Great | between 1462 and 1505, he brought much of northern Russia under his rule; tried to limit the power of the nobles and sometimes called himself tsar |
| Tsar | the Russian word for Caesar |
| Ivan the Terrible | Grandson if Ivan the Great, who became the first Russian ruler officially crowned tsar; he became unstable and violent |