Which statement is true about the city of Constantinople

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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


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