Question: Slavic mercenaries settled where?
Answer: Slavic mercenaries fighting for the Byzantines and Arabs settled Asia Minor and even as far as Syria.

Question: West Slavic people consist of which nationalities?
Answer: Poles, Czechs and Slovaks

Question: East Slavic people consist of which nationalities?
Answer: Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians

Question: South Slavic people consist of which nationalities?
Answer: Serbs, Bulgarians, Croats, Bosniaks, Macedonians, Slovenes, and Montenegrins

Question: West and East Slavs are sometimes combined into a single group called what?
Answer: North Slavs

Question: *Slověninъ, plural *Slověne, is the Slavic autonym reconstructed in what?
Answer: Proto-Slavic

Question: Old 9th century documents describing Slavs were written in what language?
Answer: Old Church Slavonic

Question: Who wrote about the Slavs in Byzantine Greek in the 6th century?
Answer: Procopius

Question: Procopius' contemporary Jordanes referred to the Slavs in what language?
Answer: Latin

Question: What slavic word denotes "people who speak the same language?"
Answer: slovo

Question: What slavic word denotes "foreign people?"
Answer: němci

Question: Who considered *Slověninъ do be a derivation from slovo?
Answer: Roman Jakobson

Question: Slovo, slava, and slukh all originate from what Proto-Indo-European root?
Answer: *ḱlew

Question: The Ancient Greek κλῆς (klês - "famous") helped create what famous name?
Answer: Pericles

Question: What three words originated from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱlew- ("be spoken of, fame")?
Answer: he word slovo ("word") and the related slava ("fame") and slukh ("hearing")

Question: The word Slav could be derived from what Middle English word?
Answer: sclave

Question: The origin of what Byzantine term is disputed?
Answer: Sklavinoi

Question: The Byzantine Greek σκλάβος sklábos "slave," which was in turn apparently derived from what?
Answer: misunderstanding of the Slavic autonym

Question: The Byzantine term Sklavinoi was loaned into Arabic as Saqaliba by who?
Answer: medieval Arab historiographers

Question: Who argues that the word *slava once had the meaning of worshipper?
Answer: Lozinski

Question: Who speculates that *slava derives from a reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *(s)lawos?
Answer: S.B. Bernstein

Question: The suffix -enin indicates what?
Answer: a man from a certain place

Question: Who argued that the Old East Slavic Slavuta for the Dnieper River was derived from slova?
Answer: Henrich Bartek

Question: The earliest mentions of Slavic raids are across what river?
Answer: River Danube

Question: The earliest mentions of what may be dated to the first half of the 6th century?
Answer: Slavic raids

Question: No archaeological evidence of a Slavic settlement in the Balkans could be securely dated before when?
Answer: c. 600 AD

Question: There is no evidence of a Slavic settlement where before c. 600 AD?
Answer: the Balkans

Question: The Slavs make their first appearance in Byzantine records when?
Answer: in the early 6th century

Question: The Slavs were under what name in the early 6th century?
Answer: the Antes and the Sclaveni

Question: According to Byzantine historiographers, tribes of Slavs emerged from what areas?
Answer: the Carpathian Mountains, the lower Danube and the Black Sea

Question: Tribes of Slavs were invading what provinces of the Eastern Empire?
Answer: the Danubian provinces

Question: Under whose reign did Byzantine historiographers describe Slavic tribes?
Answer: under Justinian I

Question: Who wrote in 545 that "the Sclaveni and the Antae actually had a single name in the remote past; for they were both called Spori in olden times."?
Answer: Procopius

Question: When did Procopius write that "the Sclaveni and the Antae actually had a single name in the remote past; for they were both called Spori in olden times."?
Answer: 545

Question: Procopius said Sclaveni and Antae were both called what?
Answer: Spori

Question: What does Procopius describe in his writings of the Sclaveni and Antae?
Answer: their social structure and beliefs

Question: Who did Procopius write about in 545?
Answer: the Sclaveni and the Antae

Question: Who tells us that the Sclaveni had swamps and forests for their cities?
Answer: Jordanes

Question: Who had swamps and forests for their cities?
Answer: the Sclaveni

Question: A 6th-century source refers to the Sclaveni as living where?
Answer: among nearly impenetrable forests, rivers, lakes, and marshes

Question: Who mentions a Daurentius (577–579) that slew an Avar envoy of Khagan Bayan I?
Answer: Menander Protector

Question: Who slew an envoy of Khagan Bayan I?
Answer: Daurentius

Question: The Slavs were asked to accept the suzerainty of whom?
Answer: the Avars

Question: Who said, "Others do not conquer our land, we conquer theirs – so it shall always be for us."?
Answer: Daurentius

Question: Whose envoy was slaughtered by Daurentius?
Answer: Khagan Bayan I

Question: An uncertain relationship was held between the Slavs and who?
Answer: the Veneti

Question: The Veneti tribe was located where?
Answer: east of the River Vistula

Question: What name may refer both to Balts and Slavs?
Answer: Veneti

Question: When was the relationship between the Slavs and Veneti uncertain?
Answer: in the Roman period

Question: Slavic-speaking tribes were part of what prior to becoming known to the Roman world?
Answer: multi-ethnic confederacies of Eurasia

Question: What were some of the multi-ethnic confederacies of Eurasia?
Answer: the Sarmatian, Hun and Gothic empires

Question: Who started the great migration of the Slavs?
Answer: Germans

Question: Some Slavs migrated with the movement of the Vandals to where?
Answer: Iberia and north Africa

Question: Who were the Germanic tribes fleeing?
Answer: the Huns and their allies

Question: When did Slavs appear on Byzantine borders?
Answer: Around the 6th century

Question: The Slavs appeared on whose borders around the 6th century?
Answer: Byzantine borders

Question: Where else reported Slavic settlements?
Answer: Peloponnese and Asia Minor

Question: Where had the Slavs settled by the end of the 6th century?
Answer: the Eastern Alps

Question: When had the Slavs settled the Eastern Alps?
Answer: By the end of the 6th century

Question: What appeared among the Slavs when their migratory movements ended?
Answer: the first rudiments of state organizations

Question: When did the first rudiments of state organizations appear among the Slavs?
Answer: When their migratory movements ended

Question: Early state organizations where headed by what?
Answer: a prince with a treasury and a defense force

Question: Noble Slavs pledged allegiance to whom?
Answer: the Frankish/ Holy Roman Emperors or the Byzantine Emperors

Question: When did Samo become the ruler of the first known Slav state?
Answer: the 7th century

Question: What Frankish merchant was the ruler of the first Slav state in Central Europe?
Answer: Samo

Question: What is the oldest Slav state in Central Europe?
Answer: Carantania

Question: When was the first Bulgarian Empire founded?
Answer: 681

Question: Bulgaria was instrumental in the spread of what to the rest of the Slavic world?
Answer: Slavic literacy and Christianity

Question: What three free Slavic states were in the world as of 1878?
Answer: the Russian Empire, Serbia and Montenegro

Question: When were the Russian Empire, Serbia, and Montenegro the only free Slavic states in the world?
Answer: 1878

Question: Whose official independence was declared in 1908?
Answer: Bulgaria

Question: When were independent states as Czechoslovakia, the Second Polish Republic, and the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs established?
Answer: In 1918

Question: Whose plan for the East entailed killing, deporting, or enslaving the Slavs?
Answer: Hitler's