Early Russia p. 243-247 (Chapter 7 section 8)

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Across
  1. 3. Mongol rule cut off Russian contacts with this region of Europe
  2. 4. the Russian king that adopted and spread Christianity
  3. 7. Asian nomadic warriors that conquered Russia in the 1200s (13th century)
  4. 9. town that became the center of the first Russian state
  5. 11. tribal peoples that migrated into Russia during Roman times
  6. 13. missionary brothers that took Christianity to the Slavs
  7. 14. the Byzantine Empire and early Russia were linked most closely through _____ ($)
  8. 15. the alphabet created for the Slavs to translate the Bible into their language
  9. 16. term for an "open, treeless grasslands"
Down
  1. 1. another term for the Vikings, given to them by the Slavs and Byzantines
  2. 2. the Russian term for Caesar / king
  3. 5. Russian leader that made Moscow a great city...took on the title of tsar
  4. 6. the city of northern Russia that gained in power as the Mongols were defeated
  5. 8. like the Byzantines, the Russians developed an _______ form of Christianity
  6. 10. Russian tsar, murdered his opposition, believed in extreme and absolute power
  7. 12. Scandinavians that attacked Russia via the river systems