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Down: 1) Russian title for prince, king, or dulen Schism-divide 2) teaching against the church4) spread religion, organized mass baptisms, married the sister of a Byzantine emperor 5) French pope at the same time as urban VI 6) Ivan the great, centralized power and took power from boyars, ruled from 1462-1505, built the framework for absolute rule, called himself tsar, united his people, gained allegiance of princes, repelled the mongols7) peninsula Greece is located on9) the papal courts were moved here 10) agents ordered by Ivan IV to kill agents ordered by Ivan IV to kill 11) burned at the stake as a heretic, and tried for heresy (from the Czech Republic) 12) Italian pope captured by Philip IV 14) fought with Bonifacio VIII over control of the church and pressured Pope clement V to moved the papacy to Avignon 17) longest of the three rivers18) moved papacy to Avignon 19) gift of land from kings to princes 21) Russia under mongol rule23) Genoese ships went from this Black Sea port with the black plague, founded by the Genoese 25) Grandson of genesis knan that conquered Russia from 1236-1241 27) capital of medieval Russia and now present day Ukraine 30) the breadbasket of Russia 32) where Vladimir was baptized, Kiev is on it 33) ruled from 1019-1054, issued written law code for Kiev ,translated Greek works to his language 36) near important river trade routes, made capital by the head of the russian, the headwaters of the don, dnieperm, and Volga’s rivers Orthodox Church, power center of Russia after Kiev 38) The grandmother of Vladimir that converted to Byzantine Christianity in 957 40) migrated into Kiev, converted by Christian missionaries sent by Constantinople Across: 3) the only France land the English kept5) Slavic alphabet originally derived from the Greeks 8) the Volga river empties into this sea 13) rich, powerful Russian nobles 15) mongol leader that unified the nomads in the early 1200s16) grandson of Ivan the great, ruled in 1547, introduced laws that tied Russian serfs to land, organize oprichniki to kill people who rebelled(Ivan the terrible)20) dry, treeless grassland 22) the don river empties to this sea 24) lost in the Hundred Years’ War 25) example of Christianity for Russia, sent missionaries to Russia, Byzantine sister of emperor married Vladimir 26) the black plague first arrived here28) the source of black plague killed 35 million people29) believed that the Bible was the source of truth, not the church 31) these mountains divide europe from Asia 34) Was an Italian disliked pope and served at the same time as clement VII 35) English king that called for the Hundred Years’ War 37) conquered Russia, Islamic, tolerant rulers, created the largest land empire 39) Italians that settled the city of caffe in the Black Sea 41) called the rus, explored the Volga and dnieper river, established trade routes in Middle East and Mediterranean, settled between the Baltic and black seas 42) Russian ruler started by Ivan the great43) selected by the council of Constance to end the great schism
 

 

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