Which statement is true about the city of Constantinople
What lasting impact did the Magyars have on the kingdom of Hungary?
The adopted Roman Catholicism and ruled the kingdom
Why did the state of Poland-Lithuania weaken in the late 1600s?
The central government was weak due to the "free veto"
Russia's first civilization began in
The farming region of Ukraine
Medieval Russian traders most often reached the Byzantine world
through rivers running from north to south
What issue was the cause of a bitter battle between eastern and western Christianity?
A Byzantine emperor banned religious icons
Islam was introduced to some areas of the Balkans in the 1300s by the invading
Ottomans
Under the rule of Justinian, the Byzantine empire
built the strongest military force in the world
In 1380 the Russian princes of Moscow took control from the mongols by
defeating the Golden Horde at the battle of Kulikovo
Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible
issued laws that tied Russian serfs to the land
Justinian's most important achievement was probably
His body of civil law
The Magyars who raided Europe from the Asian steppes eventually settled in
Hungary
In the 900s, West Slavs of Poland were influenced by missionaries spreading
Roman Catholicism
Which of these statements is true about the mongol rule of medieval Russia
Russian rulers continued the Mongols' use of absolute power
What was an effect of mongol rule over medieval Russia
They cut Russia off from contacts with Western Europe
The city of Constantinople was in a key location on the strait that links the Mediterranean Sea with the
Black Sea
After the Great Schism, the Byzantine church became known as the
Eastern Orthodox Church
Which statement is true about the city of Constantinople
It commanded key trade routes linking Europe and Asia
What effect did the free veto have on the government of Poland-Lithuania
It made it difficult for the government to take decisive action
The rule of the Byzantine emperor Justinian differed from the rule of monarchs in Western Europe in that
Justinian had both political and spiritual power
The development of Kiev and its culture was the result of the blended cultures of what two peoples?
Slavs and Vikings
What helped cause the decline of the Byzantine Empire?
Venetian merchants gained control of Byzantine trade
In medieval Europe goods and cultural influences traveled along the
Volga and urals
Ivan the great
sought to limit the power of landowning nobles