The Cossacks Were

question 36

Multiple Choice

The Cossacks were

• A) missionaries.
• B) a Byzantine trading society.
• C) an independent tribal society of warriors.
• D) an elite military force of the tsar.
• E) nomadic reindeer herders of the eastern steppe.

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