1. Russia becomes the Third Rome

2. Russia and the Vikings
Viking groups settled parts of what is now Russia and ruled over the Slavs
Rurik the Rus
Land of the Rus becomes Russia

3. Russia and Constantinople
Contact through:
River trade (Rus Vikings)
Missionaries (Cyril & Methodius)
Vorangian Guard of Constantinople

4. Kievan Golden Age Yaroslav the Wise 1st library
Organized law based on Justinian’s Code
destroyed by Mongol invaders in 1240

5. The Mongols ( aka the Tartars)
nomadic raiders from Asia
attack Russian towns
Russian must pay tribute to Mongols

6. Other Russian territories
many city-states with princes (principalities)
boyars – wealthy merchants and landowners (like nobility)
Decentralized govt. (power is spread among many boyars – no one strong leader over all - like an emperor)
must pay Mongols tribute

7. Ivan III – Prince of Moscow
1453 – Constantinople falls to Ottoman Turks
Moscow is now most powerful center of eastern Orthodox religion
Ivan III marries into the Byzantine Emperors family
Adopts Byzantine art & architecture

8. Persian / Byzantine Architecture

9. Czar Ivan III 1480 – Ivan III prince of Moscow refuses Mongol tribute
Unites Russian principalities
Defeats and pushes out the Mongols
Takes title Caesar (Czar)
Moscow is now the 3rd Rome