Tag the questions with any skills you have. Your dashboard will track each student's mastery of each skill.
Give this quiz to my class
Q 1/58
Score 0
What was the name of the group of independent Russian peasants who lived in Southern Russia (the Caucasus region) and helped Ivan the IV take Siberia?
30
Cossacks
Q 2/58
Score 0
What is the name of the main ethnic group of Russia and most of Eastern Europe who were some of the first settlers to Russia?
30
Slavs
58 questions
Q.
What was the name of the group of independent Russian peasants who lived in Southern Russia (the Caucasus region) and helped Ivan the IV take Siberia?
1
30 sec
Q.
What is the name of the main ethnic group of Russia and most of Eastern Europe who were some of the first settlers to Russia?
2
30 sec
Q.
Who was Russia's first autocrat who centralized power and ruled absolutely?
3
30 sec
Q.
What does the name "Appanage" mean in Russian?
4
30 sec
Q.
What is the major trading center of Russia during the Appanage Russian Time Period?
5
30 sec
Q.
Besides more troop recruits for their armies, what was the other main thing that the Mongols wanted from Russia?
6
30 sec
Q.
What is the Great Schism?
7
30 sec
Q.
Which leader of Russia made Christianity (Eastern Orthodox) the official state religion?
8
30 sec
Q.
Which of the following was the first major trading city of Russia & Central Asia?
9
30 sec
Q.
Muslim holy warriors fight to preserve their religion
10
30 sec
Q.
People who settled in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and eastern Central & Southern Europe
11
30 sec
Q.
Scandinavian traders who were some of Kiev's early leaders' also the word we get Russia from
12
30 sec
Q.
A communist group that overthrew the government during the Russian Revolution in 1917
13
30 sec
Q.
Russian terrorist organization that assassinated Alexander II
14
30 sec
Q.
Early it was a group of council leaders, later it refers to part of the Russian government (parliament)
15
30 sec
Q.
All economy, society, and government controlled by a dictator. Few individual Freedoms. Very concerned with expanding territory and spreading communism - internationalists.
16
30 sec
Q.
Economy and ownership in hands of the community as a whole.
17
30 sec
Q.
USSR's version of communism, workers and oppressed people's unite and overthrow capitalism and materialism
18
30 sec
Q.
Based on Agriculture for survival
19
30 sec
Q.
Noble or Wealthy Landowning Russian Families
20
30 sec
Q.
Policy of government openness and moving toward a democracy
21
30 sec
Q.
Restructuring of USSR government & economy, gave its' power away (Laissez-Faire)
22
30 sec
Q.
When something is rushed or cheaply done, then fails and creates many more problems
23
30 sec
Q.
Based on Agriculture for survival
24
30 sec
Q.
Title of the emperor of Russia
25
30 sec
Q.
To Resign
26
30 sec
Q.
Local governing bodies or states in the USSR
27
30 sec
Q.
Network of prison labor camps in the USSR
28
30 sec
Q.
What climate around the Ukraine and the Ural Mountains, that has great farming and water resources, provoked the early Russian settlers to inhabit this area?
29
30 sec
Q.
What was the split of the Catholic & Eastern Orthodox churches called?
30
30 sec
Q.
What is one of the main reasons why Kievan Rus collapsed in 1240?
31
30 sec
Q.
What mountain range splits Europe and Asia?
32
30 sec
Q.
What was a push factor for people to settle into Kievian Russia?
33
30 sec
Q.
Besides internal divisions, what else did Appange Russia suffer from?
34
30 sec
Q.
What was the capital and main trading center of Muscovite Russia?
35
30 sec
Q.
What turned Ivan IV "Terrible?"
36
30 sec
Q.
Which Romanov Czar was a ruthless tyrant that reversed many of Catherine II's policies and was later assassinated?
37
30 sec
Q.
Which Romanov Czar was a son of Alexis' 2nd wife and was known for acquiring the Baltic States, wanting to westernize Russia like Europe, and vastly improved the navy and foreign trade?
38
30 sec
Q.
Which Romanov Czar brought Russia out of the "Time of Troubles"?
39
30 sec
Q.
Who was the last czar of Russia?
40
30 sec
Q.
Which czar enacted "Temporary Regulations" which took away all of the Russian people's freedoms after the assassination of his father?
41
30 sec
Q.
What was the name of the Russian Serf Terrorist Group that assassinated Alexander II?
42
30 sec
Q.
Which of the following czars sold Alaska to the US?
43
30 sec
Q.
Which of the following czars helped to finally defeat Napoleon?
44
30 sec
Q.
Russia, in 2008, went to war in the province of South Ossetia with what former USSR country?
45
30 sec
Q.
Who was the leader of Russia during the Chechnya War in the mid-90s when Islamic Chechnya tied to break away from Russia, but instead received autonomy?
46
30 sec
Q.
Who is the current prime minister of Russia?
47
30 sec
Q.
Which former leader of Russia was a KGB agent, increased Russia's economic power, and has given Russia her dignity back as a world power?
48
30 sec
Q.
Who is the current president of Russia?
49
30 sec
Q.
Who was the first president of the Russian Federation?
50
30 sec
Q.
What was the Soviet Union spending most of its money on during the Cold War?
51
30 sec
Q.
Which leader created the Warsaw Pact, crushed a revolution in Hungary, and commissioned the building of the Berlin Wall?
52
30 sec
Q.
Which leader is characterized by being a brutal leader and was the leader of the USSR during WWII?
53
30 sec
Q.
What started the Crisis in Ukraine?
54
30 sec
Q.
Why is it significant that the word Ukraine literally means "Borderland"?
55
30 sec
Q.
What happened as a result of President Yanukovich fleeing and being ousted of the Ukrainian government in early 2014?
56
30 sec
Q.
Which of the following happened as a result of the February Revolution in Russia?
57
30 sec
Q.
What was the main mistake the the Provisional Government made in 1917?
