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The Rise of Russia
Vocabulary: Ivan the Third |
He was a Tzar of Russia,who under Moscow,led the movement to free Russia from Mongol Control and also won a vast expanse of land for Russia.
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The Rise of Russia
Vocabulary: Third Rome |
Ivan the Third declared Russia the Third Rome.
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The Rise of Russia
Vocabulary: Ivan the Fourth |
Also known as Ivan the Terrible, He continued territory expansion and political centralization, and killed many nobles as he saw them as a threat to his power.
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The Rise of Russia
Vocabulary: Cossacks |
Peasant people who settled newly conquered land and they provided volunteers to press the frontier farther east.
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The Rise of Russia
Vocabulary: The Time of Troubles |
Started when Ivan the Fourth died as there was no set heir to replace him and Boyars attempted to regain their former influence, and ended when the Romanov family became the next dynasty.
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The Rise of Russia
Vocabulary: Romanov Dynasty |
Dynasty that ended the Time of Troubles and resumed order and foreighn expansion, they seized part of Ukraine.
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The Rise of Russia
Vocabulary: Alexis Romanov |
He restored Tsarist autocracy, abolished the assemblies of Boyars, and assumed direct state control over the church.
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The Rise of Russia
Vocabulary: Old Believers |
People who remained attached to the old rituals, the way of the mongols.
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The Rise of Russia
Vocabulary: Peter the First |
Ruled after the Romanov family and concentrated on emulation of the west.
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The Rise of Russia
Vocabulary: Catherine the Great |
Wife of the retarded Peter the Third, she took his position and continued the policy of autocratic centrlization.
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The Rise of Russia
Vocabulary: Pugachev rebellion |
A Peasant uprising that was put down by Catherine the Great and was protesting serfdom.
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The Rise of Russia
Vocabulary: Partition of Poland |
The division of the land in Poland between Russia, Austria, and Prussia and it eliminated Poland as an independent state.
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The Rise of Russia
Vocabulary: Obrok |
Labor obligations of Russian peasants to either their aristocratic landlords or to the state; typical of increased labor burdens placed on Russian peasantry during the 18th century.
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