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From Kyivan Rus to Independent Ukraine

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  1. In which year, by the traditional date, did Prince Volodymyr the Great baptise Kyivan Rus?
  2. According to the old legend in the Primary Chronicle, who founded the city of Kyiv?
  3. Which Kyivan prince is linked with the law code Ruska Pravda and the building of the cathedral of Saint Sophia?
  4. In which year did the Mongol army capture and destroy Kyiv?
  5. Which ruler of Galicia-Volhynia was crowned king in 1253?
  6. What was the main result of the Union of Lublin of 1569 for Ukrainian lands?
  7. What did the Union of Brest of 1596 create?
  8. Which Orthodox metropolitan of Kyiv is credited with founding the Kyiv-Mohyla Collegium (later Academy) in 1632?
  9. What does the name Zaporozhian Sich refer to?
  10. In which year did the Cossack uprising led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky begin?
  11. What was the Pereiaslav Agreement of 1654?
  12. Why did Hetman Ivan Mazepa's forces fight at Poltava in 1709?
  13. Which 1710 document, drawn up by Pylyp Orlyk in exile, is often called an early European constitution?
  14. What happened to the Zaporozhian Sich in 1775?
  15. In which year was serfdom abolished in the Russian Empire, which then ruled most of the Ukrainian lands?
  16. Which secret society, founded in Kyiv in the 1840s, included Mykola Kostomarov and Panteleimon Kulish and was joined by Taras Shevchenko?
  17. Who headed the Central Rada, formed in Kyiv in March 1917?
  18. What did the Fourth Universal of 22 January 1918 proclaim?
  19. What was the Act of Union (Zluka) of 22 January 1919?
  20. Who led the Hetmanate state in Ukraine from April to December 1918?
  21. What is the Holodomor?
  22. On which date did the accident at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant happen?
  23. What did the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine, adopted on 16 July 1990, proclaim?
  24. When did the Verkhovna Rada adopt the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine?
  25. Who was elected the first president of independent Ukraine in December 1991?
  26. On which date did the Verkhovna Rada adopt the Constitution of Ukraine?
  27. What did Ukraine agree to under the Budapest Memorandum of 1994?
  28. What triggered the Orange Revolution of 2004 in Ukraine?
  29. What event started the protests known as the Revolution of Dignity (Euromaidan) in late 2013?
  30. In June 2022 the European Council granted Ukraine which status in relation to the European Union?
  31. Which Cossack leader signed the Treaty of Hadiach in 1658, which planned a Grand Duchy of Rus as a third part of the Commonwealth?
  32. What is the Trypillia culture?
  33. Who were the Scythians in the history of the northern Black Sea region?
  34. Who was the first ruler of Rus to adopt Christianity, travelling to Constantinople in the mid-10th century?
  35. In 1945 the Ukrainian SSR became a founding member of the United Nations. What made this unusual?
  36. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk of 9 February 1918 was important for Ukraine because it was what?
  37. Which sequence puts the events in the correct chronological order?
  38. After the partitions of Poland-Lithuania at the end of the 18th century, which two empires ruled most Ukrainian lands in the 19th century?
  39. What did the Ems Ukase of 1876 do?
  40. Which scholar wrote the multi-volume History of Ukraine-Rus and later led the Central Rada?

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