From the AP Edition of World Civilizations: The Global Experience (Fifth Edition) is Chapter 18 Vocabulary. It is for my AP World History class at East Career & Technical Academy.
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| 46877280 | Ivan III | "Ivan the Great"; ruled as great prince and first ruler of the independent state called Russia | 0 | |
| 46877281 | Third Rome | this was in response to the fall of the Byzantine Empire and Ivan Great's desire to make Moscow the new center of the Orthodox Church | 1 | |
| 46927941 | Ivan IV | set up secret police, the most powerful of the early czars. Learned, religious, and cruel. Saw treason everywhere and arrested, exiled, or excecuted many advisors, reduced boyars power, increased Russia's trade with western Europe and worked to expand borders, conquered Mongul lands to the east and south of Moscow | 2 | |
| 46927942 | Boyars | Russian landholding aristocrats; possessed less political power than their western European counterparts | 3 | |
| 46927943 | Cossacks | peasants recruited to migrate to newly seized lands in Russia, particularly in south; combined agriculture with military conquests; spurred additional frontier conquests and settlements. | 4 | |
| 46927944 | Time of Troubles | Period of disorder in Russia when there were disputes over succession, peasant uprisings, and foreign invasions. | 5 | |
| 46927945 | Romanov Dynasty | this dynasty favored the nobles, reduced military obligations, expanded the Russian empire further east, and fought several unsuccessful wars, yet they lasted from 1613 to 1917. | 6 | |
| 46927946 | Alexis Romanov | Second Romanov tsar; abolished assemblies of nobles; gained new powers over Russian Orthodox church. | 7 | |
| 46927947 | Old Believers | Russians who refused to accept the ecclesiastical reforms of Alexis Romanov (17th century); many exiled to Siberia or southern Russia, where they became part of Russian colonization. | 8 | |
| 46927948 | Peter I | Also known as Peter the Great; son of Alexis Romanov; ruled from 1689 to 1725; continued growth of absolutism and conquest; included more definite interest in changing selected aspects of economy and culture through imitation of western European models. | 9 | |
| 46927949 | St Petersburg | Capitol city created by Peter the Great to resemble a French city. It was built on land taken from Sweeden | 10 | |
| 46927950 | Catherine the Great | This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia, created a new law code, and greatly expanded Russia | 11 | |
| 46927951 | Partition of Poland | division of Polish territory among Russia, Prussia, and Austria in 1772, 1793, and 1795; eliminated Poland as independent state; part of expansion of Russian influence in eastern Europe. | 12 | |
| 46927952 | Obrok | quitrent, dues paid in money or kind | 13 | |
| 46927953 | Pugachev Rebellion | Unsuccessful peasant rising led by Cossack Pugachev during the 1770s; typical of peasant unrest during the 18th century and after | 14 |
