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Ap World History - Summerville High School

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Ivan III (the Great)   Prince of the Duchy of Moscow; responsible for freeing Russia from the Mongols; took the title of tsar (caesar).  
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Ivan IV (the Terrible)   confirmed power of tsarist autocracy by attacking the authority of the boyars; continued policy of expansion; established contacts with western European commerce and culture.  
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Cossacks   peasant-adventurers with agricultural and military skills, recruited to conquer and settle in newly seized lands in southern Russia and Siberia.  
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Time of Troubles   early 17th-century period of boyar efforts to regain power and foreign invasion following the death of Ivan IV, who died without an heir; ended with the selection of Michael Romanov as tsar in 1613.  
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Romanov dynasty   ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917.  
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Alexis Romanov   Second Romanov ruler; abolished assemblies of nobles; gained new powers over the Orthodox church.  
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Old Believers   conservative Russians who refused to accept the ecclesiastical reforms of Alexis Romanov; many were exiled to southern Russia or Siberia.  
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Peter I (the Great)   tsar from 1689 to 1725; continued growth of absolutism and conquest; sought to change selected aspects of the economy and culture through imitation of western European models.  
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Catherine the Great   German-born Russian tsarina; combined selective receptivity to Enlightenment ideas with strong centralizing policies; converted the nobility to a service aristocracy by granting them new power over the peasantry.  
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Pugachev rebellion   unsuccessful peasant uprising led by cossack Emelyan Pugachev during the 1770s; typical of peasant unrest during the 18th century and thereafter.  
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partition of Poland   three separate divisions of Polish territory between Russia, Prussia, and Austria in 1772, 1793, and 1795; eliminated Poland as an independent state.  
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