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Class 4 Exam 2
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Until the 1600s Russia has very little interactions with _______________. | western Europe. |
| Historically Russia has struggled with________________ from their rulers: | weak leadership; the Tsars |
| Russia has a very bad history of: | being invaded from outside forces often from the west ex:sweden and Poland |
| Russia is often invaded from the____________ specifically by the mongols - family of _____________. | southeast; ghengis khan |
| Russia also suffers from the lack of access from: | being cut off from a warm water port |
| Because of being blocked off from a warm water port, when the winters set in, the Russian navy and maritime trade was __________. They need access to warm water | frozen still |
| In the northern regions of Russia, it could potentially gain access to a warm water port by fighting military campaigns ______________to gain access to a warm water port on the ___________. | in sweden and poland; baltic sea |
| In the southwest they could fight military campaigns against __________________ for a military port on the black sea | the ottoman empire; black sea |
| Russia in the 1600s was essentially untouched by: | intellectual or spiritual movements in the west. |
| What were some things that hadn't happened in Russia? | Untouched by the renaissance, the scientific revolution, and the reformation |
| In 1682 we have a rise to power by a Tsar named: | Peter I, or Peter the great |
| Peter I recognized that if Russia is going to be powerful... | it must westernize |
| Peter the great will westernize the _______________. He creates a growing state western bureaucracy. | government |
| Peter I sees what France and Prussia are doing so he initiates ______________, westernizes the russian army and establishes a large standing more professionalized government paid for by the state. | russian military reforms |
| Peter I tried to popularize western customs by downplaying ________________. | old russian customs |
| Peter the great forced his aristocracy to: | shave their long beards and abandon traditional Russian long robes. These became examples of the old russia |
| Peter the great wrote a book on : | russian manners - prohibited spitting on the floor, eating with your fingers, using your sleeve as a napkin |
| Peter I started to change _____________________. His one goal was access to ____________. | Russian foreign policy;warm water. |
| He does get involved in many military engagements, but especially in the south, the ottoman empire is extremely ________________________ compared to the Russians. The Russians don’t do so well in the south, cutting them off from the ______________. | militaristic and advanced;black sea. |
| Peter the great is more successful in the ____________. | north |
| He gets Russia involved in the________________ Russia on one sides, polish, swedes, ect on the other | great northern war 1700-172 |
| He is able to defeat the forces to get access to a warm water port on the ___________. | baltic sea |
| Russia now has unfaltering access to the ____________. Russia can trade with the rest of __________________. | west;western europe |
| He is able to move the Russian capital to a city named after himself in 1707_______________. | St. Petersburg. |
| A change in russian leadership lead to the ___________________ which makes it one of the five great powers until the first world war. | rise of russian power |
| Five ___________________ will dominate western history for the next 200 years until the first world war. | great powerhouses |
| The enlightenment 18th century phenomenon began around the 1700s and dominated almost every aspect of __________. | human life. |
| The enlightenment affected: | culture, intellectualism, political terms, and social effects. |
| The peak of the enlightenment will culminate in the... | American and French revolutions. |
| The enlightenment creates great inspiration in things like: | western art, opera, music and literature. Also has political and social ramifications. |
| The enlightenment challenged something called the ________. | old regime |
| The old regime: | a historical term that described the prevailing social, and political structures of Europe. It is this structure of Europe that dominated the affairs of Europe that dates back as far as the middle ages. Can be described as the status quo. |
| The old regime is the basis of this system that declared that people's station is life in based: | solely on birth. Who you're born to. Born a peasant-die a peasant. This idea is starting to change. |
| Socrates went around and asked: | “why?” |
| The culmination of the revolution is : | the enlightenment |
| Society became increasingly | secular |
| We see this shift to secular thinking is due to | the reaction of religious warfare |
| The _________________ is wrapping up as the enlightenment is being born. | scientific revolution |
| Science becomes its _______________________.It begins to challenge these old notions of________________. | own discipline of study; the old war |
| People are starting to view the world as more ______________. | mechanical. |
| The world seems to be explained by ___________. | mathematical terms. |
| During the enlightenment it became fashionable to denounce_________________to ________________. | religion; superstition |
| People either denounced religion it or attempted to explain religion through mathematics. Dubbed the ____________________. | age of reason. |
| Deism | attempted to understand God through a rational lens by using things like, logic, reason, observation, study and and anything that used the scientific method |
| Diest argue that there is a God, however God is an inconceivable intelligence that: | created the world and let the world run according to the laws of nature |
| Prevailing religious opinion of many of our: | founding fathers like Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, ect.\ |
| Idea of constant humanity could increase its happiness and process... | exponentially and it will never stop |
| A calling for greater__________ and ________________. | liberty and freedom |
| Liberty in this case does NOT equal ______________. | democracy |
| Liberty and freedom away from ___________________. | royal absolutism |
| These writers and thinkers are calling for who to have a political voice? | the wealthy not common people |
| The leaders, thinkers, and writers of this time are often called the _______________.They were social ____________. | philosophes;critics |
| Philosophes were calling for a reform for the ___________________. | human experience |
| Philosophes were _______________and ________________. | educated/wealthy |
| Philosophes will _______________the problems that are going on in western Europe for anyone to understand. | popularize |
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