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| 272202348 | cossacks | peasant adventurers. recruited to migrate to newly seized lands in russia, south. | 0 | |
| 272202349 | instruction of 1767 | Catherine the Greats institution. flirted with the ideas of the French Enlightment, importing several French philospohers for visits and patronizing the arts and sciences | 1 | |
| 272202350 | boyars | nobles, russian aristocrats, posessed less political power than did their counterparts in western europe.. Ivan IV got his nickname because he was killing all these people. | 2 | |
| 272202351 | Old Believers | dissident religious conservatives. they were exiled to siberia where they could maintain their religion. they refused to accept the reforms of Alexis | 3 | |
| 272202352 | Romanov dynasty | dynasty elected at the end of the time of troubles. Michael restored internal order. some rulers were weak and tensions with nobles occured | 4 | |
| 272202353 | Time of Troubles | After Ivan IV's death. boyars attempted to use vacuum power to reestablish their authority. Swedish and and Polish attacks on Russian occured. Michael Romanov ended it. | 5 | |
| 272202354 | Pugachev rebellion | crushed. typical of peasant unrest led by emelian pugachev & claimed to be legimate tsar. Catherine used it as an excuse to extend te powers of central government in regional affairs | 6 | |
| 272202355 | partition of Poland | division of polish territory among russia, prussia, and austria. eliminated poland as a state. russia got the better end of the deal. | 7 |
