The+Rise+of+Russia



goal: to push mongols out
 * Describe the effects of Mongol occupation on Russian civilization **
 * the dutchy of //Moscow was the center for the liberation effort//
 * local princes created a great autonomy  but were not allow to have it anymore
 * increase on regional rule
 * mongol clothing style and social habit adapted
 * decrease in intellectual life and economy
 * mongols taxes used in Russia
 * forcing Russia to trade with Bristish merchants
 * Trace Russian expansion under the Ivans. **
 * peasants were use to migrate to newly seized land to settle and create life there
 * **Cossack** - Russian pioneer who had agricultural and military skill => settling in new land
 * land spread into Western Siberia and across Ural
 * Russia expansion push Ottoman Empire to the South => pushing away anymore outside nation that has conquered before

Leader Analysis Sheet <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal;">Peter I / Peter the Great || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal;">9 June 1672 - 8 February 1725 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Title: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal;">Tsar of Russia || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal;">Russia || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Years in Power <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal;">7 May 1682–8 February 1725 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/peter_the_great2.htm <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">[] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Russia vs Europe / Change in Continuality
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Name of Leader:
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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Political, Social, & Economic Conditions Prior to Leaders Gaining Power
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Russia was being ruled by the family of the Romanov dynasty where Peter was the son of Alexis Romanov
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Russia was still expanding and developing again after the Mongol control
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Areas of Russia was ruled through local Kings
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">political and social structure and still developing
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">peasants were used to migrate into new lands to benefit expansion => basically endorse the upper class with estates ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Ideology, Motivation, Goals:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">adjust Russia's way to copy the way people in Europe work; aim to change
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">idea of Westernization with his visits in Europe; <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">making Russia completely Western
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">better military and ruling
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">expanding land
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">cultural change (goes back to westernization) to be look through the eyes of the West and not “vulgar”
 * “<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal;">thirst for change”
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal;">landlord reforms
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal;">Making Russia not to look like this vulgar country; top of world ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Significant Actions & events During Term of Power
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">move provincial governors to St. Petersburg
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">changed laws and tax system
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">gave upper class women more freedom; European Idea
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">old traditions were changed to fit more into Europe's ideals
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">economy level was //increase with intro of trade and trading ports//
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">noble titles to beuracratic leaders
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">alter military training
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">traveled to Europe to make changes for Russia
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">St Petersburg as the capital of Russia ; closer to the west
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">made nobles shave their beards, autocracy
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Economy is indepent, government sponsers; geared them on military ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Short-Term effects:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">military organization
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">tsarist control - Autocracy
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Welcoming foriegners
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Laws that has to go through Peter the great
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">reduce Sweden to second
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">cut Russia from tradition
 * || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Long-Term Effects
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Ballet
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">People speak Russian and French
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">large commercial class
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Education with the increase of schools of math and science
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">secret police - spies to prevent beauracracy
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">foriegn policies
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">eliminated old nobles and new set of advisers ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Russia is land based; traveled east into Siberia ; Europe is sea based
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">when russia moved east, had a lower impact compared to Western Europe
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">both military superiorty
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">limted economic dominances
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">russian expandsion was state sponsered vs private sponsers - concisidors
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">both of these regions lead to a concieve labor system
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">both expanded because of the inbitions from their leaders

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Leader Analysis Sheet <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Catherine II / Catherine the great || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">2 May 1729 - 17 November 1796 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Title: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Autocrat and Empress || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Russia || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Years in Power <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">9 July 1762 - 17 November 1796 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Name of Leader:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Lifespan
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Country/region:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Political, Social, & Economic Conditions Prior to Leaders Gaining Power
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">tsardom was weakening from the change to Westernization
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Russian expansion created problems with the Ottoman Empire
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Peter the great create a better economic and military power
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Peter III ruled only for 6 months, was retarded and died
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">weak rulers, church officers were eager to gain power
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">economy relied to much on serfs ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Ideology, Motivation, Goals:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">at first she was trying to dethrone her husband Peter III
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">improving the Russian court to help and dethrone her husband
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Enlightenment ideals
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">reforms for arts and science inspired by the Enlightenment
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">defend central monarchy
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">westernizer - make russia more modern ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Significant Actions & events During Term of Power
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Pugachev rebellion**: a peasant uprising that she put down so she could use it to extend powers of the central government for regional interactions
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">gave power to nobility over their serfs
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">trade between serfs were growing
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">nobles became stronger / central government – beureaucrats and officers
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">the power of nobles over serfs became more harsh and cruel
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">improve architecture in St. Petersburg by inspirations from the West
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">continue to expand land around the Black sea and central Asia
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">parition of Poland gave Russia the ability to win land in Austria and Prussia
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">banned political writings
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">explorers went into north coast ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Short-Term effects:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">encouragement of the arts
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">power of nobility
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">harshness of punishment
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">french revolution closing doors to Europe || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Long-Term Effects
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">strong central state
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">new ideas to culture and economy
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">land expansion
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Russia's independence
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">division of Poland ||

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">Serfdom: The Life of East Europe's Masses <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">MI: When the Russian country was developing once again from the Mongol conquest, the rights of the serfs constantly decreased. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">Trade and Economic Dependence <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">MI: In Russia cities were usually small and most of the popular was rural, with people living in the country side. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">Social Unrest <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">MI: With the growing nation continue, peasants were constantly uprising from the harsh treatments. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">Russia and Eastern Europe <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">MI: Russia had land in Eastern Europe were cultural exchange were taking place with the Polish.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">Serfs were once free farms and given legal positions however many peasants went into debt and was force to be controlled by noble land owners
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">Serfdom gave the government a way to have the economy moving for the nobles
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">By 1800 at least have the Russia's peasants were completely enserfed – with laws and acts pass serfs power and legal rights decrease and was basically born into serfdom
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">serfs became property where peasants could be sold, gambled away, and punished
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">serfs were mainly the people who work on agricultural tabors where it was used as trade
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">process of manufacturing labor was highly encourage yet serfs had to pay taxes
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">law of 1785 gave landlords the ability to punish serfs who participate in rebellion
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">Government growth encourage bureaucrats and professionals along with merchant groups
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">even though the cities were small, it produced enough money for expanding state and empire – traded fur
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">with expansion population grew to 36 million
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">agricultural methods did not advance and always continue with the increase of growth
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">Rebellions consists of destruction of manorial records, seizing and, and killing landlords
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">Pugachev rebellion was led by sack chieftain who claimed himself to be a tsar and promised the people that serfdom, taxation, and military ways would change
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">Catherine the great however put an end to Pugachev rebellion
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">Polish scientist Copernicious was part of Scientist Revolution where he discover that the planets move around the sun
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">Hungary became free from the Ottomans and the area began expanding into Polish land
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">decline of Poland: economic and political setbacks with electing a bad king and any reform efforts were veto

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">Compare labor system that emerged in Russia and the spanish coloines in the americas 1400 - 1800 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">1 thesis <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">1 sim <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">1 diff