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12 Cards in this Set
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Varangian
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Sweedish Vikings who sailed across the Baltic and down Russian rivers
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Rus
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Word from which Russia was derived came to refer to Slavic speaking people ruled by the Varangian.
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Kiev
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city of the “Rus” that controlled trade on the Dnieper River
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Vladimir I
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made himself grand prince of Kievan Russia and converted it to Orthodox Christianity
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Why Vladimir I did not select Islam or Judaism as the religion of Kiev
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Islam banned alcohol and Judaism because its god let the ancient Jewish Kingdom be destroyed
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In Kievan Russia, where political power derived from
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trade rather than landholding
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Led to a revival of western Europe and great population growth |
New Technologies and new agricultural methods, rise of self-governing cities that grew into trade and manufacturing centers, return to use of coins and the Crusades |
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New technologies western Europe |
theheavy moldboard plow, the horse collar, and the breast-strap harness, horse teams replace oxen |
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crusades |
were a series of Christian military campaigns against Muslims in the eastern Mediterranean between 1100 and 1200 |
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Eleanor of Aquitaine |
most influential woman of the Crusading era accompanied her husband King Louis VII of France on the second crusade. Because of a lack of male offspring hermarriage to Louis was annulled. She later married Henry II, King of England. Son's Richard the Lion-heartedand John later became kings of England |
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Ghent, Burgess, Ypres |
These cities in Flanders dominated the fishing and wool trade of the North Sea region |
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Western Europeans absorbed the Muslim technological and intellectual achievements |
As a result of the crusades |
