History Reading Due 2/1 Pages 238-241
What do accounts show Vladimir to be?
A cruel and vicious man who believed that an established church would be helpful in developing an organized state
Who was Saint Stephen?
A king of Hungary who facilitated the acceptance of Christianity by his people
The Bulgars and southern Slavic people formed what?
A largely Slavic Bulgarian kingdom
Why did the southern and eastern Slavic populations take a different religious path?
Because they were close to the Byzantine Empire
What were the Varagians in search for?
Booty and new trade routes
How did the Viking ruling class gradually assimilate into the Slavic population? How is this confirmed?
By marrying Slavic wives, its confirmed by their assumption of Slavic names
Where according to le2gend did Rurilk secure his ruling dynasty?
In the Slavic settlement of Novogorod in 862
Where did the eastern slavs settle?
In the territory of present day Ukraine and European Russia
The Slavs in Poland weren't converted into the reign of who?
King Mieszko
Who are descendants from the eastern Slavic peoples?
Modern Russians, White Russians, and Ukrainians
Who was Vladimir?
One Rus ruler who married the Byzantine emperor's sister and officially accepted Christianity for himself and his people
Who was Oleg?
One of Rurik's followers who took up residence in Kiev and created the Rus state, a union of eastern Slavic territories known as the principality of Kiev
Who were the Bulgars originally and what eventually happened to them?
Originally they were an Asiatic (relating to Asia) people who conquered much of the Balkan peninsula, they were later absorbed by the larger native Southern Slavic population
The growth of the principality of Kiev attracted ________ especially from ___________
Religious missionaries, especially from the Byzantine Empire
What state did the Rus found?
Russia
The acceptance of Eastern Orthodoxy by ______,________, and ________meant what?
Slavic peoples, serbs, bulgarians, it meant that their cultural life was also linked to the Byzantine state.
What became the model for Russian religious life?
The Byzantine Christianity, just like how Byzantine imperial ideals came to influence the outward forms of Russian political life
After establishing trade links with ______________, the Varangians did what?
The Byzantine State: They built trading settlements, became involved in civil wars among the Slavic peoples, and eventually came to dominate the native peoples just as their fellow vikings were doing in parts of western Europe
Who assumed responsibility for the conversion of the Slavic peoples and why? What did it also give them?
The Germans assumed responsibility because German emperors considered it their duty to spread Christianity to the barbarians. It also gave them the opportunity to extend their political authority too
Name the groups of people that all accepted Catholic or western Christianity and became closely tied to the Roman Catholic Church and it's Latin culture
The Poles, Czechs, and Hungarians
What emerged in the region east of the Germanic kingdom?
The Polish and Bohemian kingdoms of the western Slavs
What was the semilegendary Rurik and his fellow vikings called?
The Rus
By the end of the 9th century what did the Bulgarian kingdom accepted religious wise?
The Slavonic church services earlier developed by Cyril and Methodius
What did the Bulgarian kingdom eventually accepted as their religion
The conversion to Christianity by this state was complicated by the rivalry between the Roman Catholic and East orthodox churches, they eventually accepted the East orthodox
What happened with the Southern slavs regarding Christianity?
They accepted it but a split eventually developed between the Croats, who accepted the Roman church, and the Serbs who remained loyal to eastern Christianity
What were some things Cyril and Methodius did?
They created a Slavonic (Cyrllic) alphabet, translated the Bible into Slavonic, and developed Slavonic church services
Where did the Varangians move?
They moved down the extensive network of rivers into the lands of the eastern slavs
What were the southern Slavic peoples converted to and by who?
They were converted to the Eastern Orthodox Christianity of the Byzantine Empire by two Byzantine missionary brothers, Cyril and Methodius
Who did the eastern slavs contend with?
Viking invaders that they called the Varangians
