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| Located near the Baltic sea, above Poland |
Russia |
| Muscovites |
Great Russians, lived near Moscow |
| Tartar Khans |
lived north of Black Sea |
| Cossacks |
lived above the steppes "cowboys of Russia" |
| Bylorussians |
White Russian- lived west of Moscow |
| Little Russians/ Ruthenians/ Ukrainians |
lived southwest of Moscow |
| Russian Religion |
Greek Orthodox Church, very superstitious |
| Serfdom |
serfs worked on farms |
| Boyars |
landlords |
| Raskolniki |
people who did not like the new ideas from the west |
| Customs |
women were secluded and wore veils; men had beards and skirted garments, drank a lot, superstition rules in state and church |
| Duma |
national assembly, led by nobles |
| Stephen Rezin |
led a revolt and killed many nobles |
| Holy Synod |
a Holy Council in Russia |
| Ivan III |
"The Great" First Czar/Tzar/Tsar of Russia |
| Ivan IV |
"The Terrible" Killed many people in order to raise his own power. Opened Archangel, a port, and the Caspian |
| Semski Sober |
Consisted of the Duma, church, and the townspeople. Their main objective was peace by choosing a new ruler after Ivan IV left no heirs |
| Michael Romanov |
Elected by Semski Sober to be Czar of Russia. He was young and easily of controlled. He was the grandnephews of Ivan IV |
| Peter I |
"The Great" Traveled west in order to gain knowledge about western civilization. his main goal was to modernize Russia |
| Streltsi Rebellion |
elite Russian guards revolts in Moscow, Peter personally kills the rebels |
| Changes in Economics |
taxes on everything, adopted mercantilism |
| Changes in Government |
Duma is dissolved, Russia is divided into 10 territoies or Gubernii in order to centralize power, procurator to Holy Synod formed, Peter indirectly controls the church |
| The Great Northern War |
war started when Russia invaded Sweden |
| Charles VII of Sweden |
leader of the most modern and greatest army in Europe |
| Battle of Narva |
Sweden has 8000, Russia has 40000, Russia lost |
| Battle of Poltava |
Swedes invade Russia during winter, defeated by the winter |
| Treaty of Nystad |
Finland returns to Sweden, Lariva and Estonia given to Russia |
| "Windows on the West" |
St. Petersburg |
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