Question $1$

$10pts$

Before the sixteenth century, the Slavicspeaking Russian people had been deeply influenced by Greek$-$speaking Byzantium. Medieval Russian princes and merchants cultivated relations with Constantinople, and the monastic tradition of Orthodox Christianity took deep root. Thus, Russian rulers took the title "Tsar" $("$Caesar$"),$ asserting continuity with the Byzantine emperors who, until they lost Constantinople to the Ottomans, had been the standardbearers of the Orthodox Christian faith.

True

False