Across
- 2. centralized power in his own hands, developed a brutal secret group that terrorized members of the hereditary nobility, or boyars
- 5. consolidated power by wining allegiance of Russian princes and preventing further Mongol invasions
- 7. sparse, dry, treeless grassland
- 8. relating to the Slavic alphabet derived from the Greek and traditionally attributed to St. Cyril; in modified form still used in modern Slavic languages
- 9. charter that strictly limited royal power in Hungary
Down
- 1. traingular arm of land that juts from southeastern Europe into the Mediterranean
- 3. assembly or legislature
- 4. capital of medieval Russia and presdent-day Ukraine
- 6. large group of people who share the same language and cultural heritage