Listen to the second part of the lecture and fill in the gaps 10-17 in the text below with the words you will hear. You will hear the recording only once. When you are writing think about the meaning and spelling.

The Tatar yoke was finally thrown off in the \(10\) ... of Ivan III, Dmitry Donskoy's grandson. He was known as Ivan the Great. He \(11\) ... Sophia Palaiologina, the niece of the last Emperor of Byzantium. She \(12\) ... the country with its coat of arms - a double-headed eagle.Ivan III used it as a \(13\) ... of his claim to rule the Eastern and Western Roman Empires. So, Ivan's marriage provoked the idea of Russia being the one and only successor of Constantinople and the only true\(14\) ... of the Orthodox Church.
Having gained power over Yaroslavl, Rostov, Tver and Pskov before his marriage, Ivan III continued the \(15\) ...
of Muscovy. By the end of his reign even independent Novgorod had submitted, giving Moscow \(16\) ...
of a huge area that stretched as far north as the White Sea. Thus, he acquired the\(17\) ...
of the "Gatherer of the Russian Lands" and "Autocrat of all the Russians".