Question: Who ruled in Prince Oleg's place following his death?
Answer: his wife Olga

Question: Where did Sviatoslav move the capital to?
Answer: Pereyaslavets

Question: What year did Sviatoslav pass away?
Answer: 972

Question: How long did the region of Kiev dominate the State of the Rus?
Answer: two centuries

Question: What years did Vladimir the Great reign as leader?
Answer: 980–1015

Question: What territory was Vladimar Prince of before his father died?
Answer: Novgorod

Question: In 976, where did Vladimir have to flee to?
Answer: Scandinavia

Question: When did the Christianization of Kievan begin?
Answer: 988

Question: Who did Vladimir marry that was the sister of the Byzantine emperor?
Answer: Princess Anna

Question: What was considered too be Kiev's most important route for trade?
Answer: Dnieper River

Question: What language did the church write  the liturgy in?
Answer: Cyrillic

Question: What did this literature help with that was written in Cyrillic?
Answer: facilitated the conversion to Christianity

Question: What was Yaroslav also known as?
Answer: the Wise

Question: Who was Yaroslav's father?
Answer: Vladimir the Great

Question: In what year did Yaroslav become the prince of Kiev?
Answer: 1019

Question: What did the rota system do?
Answer: power was transferred to the eldest member

Question: What was the name of the UN-conventional system that was implemented?
Answer: rota system

Question: What was often deployed when trying to gain power?
Answer: Familicide

Question: What country did the fleeing Grand Prince run off to?
Answer: Poland

Question: What immediately occurred after Yarsolav the Wise past away?
Answer: conflict

Question: Who was fighting for Tmutarakan following Yarsolav's death?
Answer: Rostislav Vladimirovich

Question: Where did the first federal council of Rus take place in 1097?
Answer: city of Liubech

Question: What played a major role in the decline of the Rus?
Answer: decline of Constantinople

Question: Which terrirory was the main power in this trade relatinship?
Answer: Kiev

Question: What terriroty did the trade from the Varangians to the Greeks route mainly go through?
Answer: Byzantine

Question: Who was the last ruller to keep the region united?
Answer: Mstislav the Great

Question: When did Mstislav die?
Answer: 1169

Question: When did the Kievan state break up into twelve seperate principalities?
Answer: 12th century,

Question: What helped speed up the decline of the Kievan Rus?
Answer: The Crusades

Question: In what year did the Crusade sack Constantinople?
Answer: 1204

Question: What group was attacking the the Baltic Region in 1204?
Answer: Teutonic Knights

Question: What happened to Novgorod when Kievan Rus began to decline?
Answer: became more independent

Question: Why was the Republic of Novgorod doing so well while the Kievan Rus declined?
Answer: it controlled trade routes

Question: In what year did Novgorod aquire its own archbishop?
Answer: 1169

Question: The Slavs from Kievan would eventually settle in the North East of the region, What would this region later become?
Answer: Grand Duchy of Moscow

Question: What was the name of the oldest city in the north east?
Answer: Rostov

Question: In what year did the mongol invasion begin?
Answer: In 1299

Question: Who united the two previously separated principalities?
Answer: Prince Roman Mstislavich

Question: Which neighbors did Halych develop trade relations with?
Answer: Polish, Hungarian and Lithuanian

Question: In what year did Mstislavich defeat the Kiev?
Answer: 1202

Question: Who became metropolitan in 1370?
Answer: Cyprian

Question: How did the leader of Kiev gain political control?
Answer: Due to the expansion of trade

Question: From what did this new princedom emerge from?
Answer: from a coalition of traditional patriarchic family communes

Question: What type of government came from the coalition of traditional patriachic family?
Answer: first notable form of self-government

Question: Which two groups dominated the society of Kievan Rus?
Answer: mixture of Slavic and Scandinavian elites

Question: What was severely lacking in Kievan in the 12th century?
Answer: class institutions and autonomous towns

Question: What was the group called that owed labour duty to the princes?
Answer: tribute-paying peasants

Question: What eventually led to the creation of the peasant/smerdy class?
Answer: change in political structure

Question: When did wages on the manors develop?
Answer: 1031

Question: What were the smerdy initially given in the Kievian law code?
Answer: given equality

Question: Despite being much smaller than wester europe, what they known for being?
Answer: the largest contemporary European state

Question: What could you find in Novgorod that you couldn't in most other cities?
Answer: sewage system and wood paving

Question: What were some of the rights women had during this time period?
Answer: property and inheritance rights

Question: To which dynasty did Yarolav's step mother belong to?
Answer: Macedonian dynasty

Question: Which three countried did Yaroslav's daughters become queens of?
Answer: Hungary, France and Norway

Question: Who did Yaroslav's sons marry?
Answer: daughters of a Polish king and a Byzantine emperor

Question: How early did the relationship begin between the Pecheneg and the Rus?
Answer: 9th century

Question: What did the Pecheneg frequesntly do over the span of two centuries?
Answer: sporadic raids into the lands of Rus

Question: What year did the Pechenges attack the city of Kiev?
Answer: 968

Question: Whichgroup was known to support the Pecheneges in their military efforts?
Answer: Byzantine Empire

Question: Although uncertian, who is considered to be the first head of Kiev?
Answer: Michael I

Question: Who was considered to be the first bishop of the Church of the Titches?
Answer: Leontiy

Question: When was the SNES released in the US?
Answer: 1991

Question: Where was the SNES first released?
Answer: Japan and South Korea

Question: What was the SNES called in Japan?
Answer: Super Famicom

Question: What was the SNES called in South Korea?
Answer: Super Comboy

Question: When was the SNES released in Australia?
Answer: 1992

Question: What was NEC's competitor to the NES called in Japan?
Answer: PC Engine

Question: What was Sega's competitor to the NES called in Japan?
Answer: Mega Drive

Question: What was NEC's competitor to the NES called in the US?
Answer: TurboGrafx-16

Question: What was Sega's competitor to the NES called in the US?
Answer: Genesis

Question: What were the Genesis's advantages over the NES?
Answer: built on 16-bit architectures and offered improved graphics and sound

Question: Who designed both the NES and SNES?
Answer: Masayuki Uemura

Question: How much in yen did the Super Famicom cost in Japan?
Answer: ¥25,000

Question: How much in dollars did the Super Famicom cost in Japan?
Answer: US$210

Question: How many Super Famicoms were produced in the first run?
Answer: 300,000

Question: What criminal group plotted to steal Super Famicoms?
Answer: the Yakuza

Question: How much did the SNES cost in the US?
Answer: US$199

Question: How much did the SNES cost in the UK?
Answer: GB£150

Question: When was the SNES released in the UK?
Answer: April 1992

Question: When was the SNES released in Brazil?
Answer: 1993

Question: Which company distributed the SNES in Brazil?
Answer: Playtronic

Question: What market did the Genesis target?
Answer: older gamers

Question: How much sooner than the Genesis did the Street Fighter II game come out for SNES?
Answer: over a year

Question: How much of the US 16-bit console market did the Genesis have in summer 1992?
Answer: 60%

Question: What game was key to the SNES's success?
Answer: Donkey Kong Country

Question: How many SNES units were sold in the US overall?
Answer: more than 20 million

Question: What was Nintendo's limit on games per developer per year on the NES?
Answer: five