"World Civilizations" textbook chapter 23, "The Rise of Russia."
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| 333319390 | Ivan III | "Ivan the Great;" claimed succession from the Rurik dynasty and the old Kievan days. | 0 | |
| 333319391 | Ivan the IV | "Ivan the Terrible;" he increased Russian expansion and ran a strict tsarist autocracy. He was infamous for killing nobles, or boyars, who he suspected of conspiracy. | 1 | |
| 333319392 | Cossacks | peasant adventures who are Russian pioneers, combining agriculture with daring military feats on horseback. | 2 | |
| 333319393 | Time of Troubles | era when boyars fought over control, because Ivan IV had died without providing an heir. | 3 | |
| 333319394 | Romanov Dynasty | ruled Russia until the great revolution in 1917. | 4 | |
| 333319395 | Alexiz Romanov | he abolished the assemblies of nobles and gained new powers over the Russian church. | 5 | |
| 333319396 | Old believers | dissident religious conservatives who were exiled to Siberia or to southern Russia. | 6 | |
| 333319397 | Peter I | a tsar who was the son of Alexis and known as "Peter the Great" because of the expansion of Russian territory and building of tsarist control in 1689 and 1725. He imitated Western reforms. | 7 | |
| 333319398 | Catherine the Great | ruled as Catherine II, after her unfortunately retarded husband, Peter III died. She was like Peter the Great in the way that she emphasized central monarchy and smothered peasant uprisings. | 8 | |
| 333319399 | Pugachev Rebellion | ruled as Catherine II, after her unfortunately retarded husband, Peter III died. She was like Peter the Great in the way that she emphasized central monarchy and smothered peasant uprisings. | 9 | |
| 333319400 | Partition of Poland | three partitions in 1772, 1793, and 1795 eliminated Poland as an independent state. Russia benefitted from this greatly. | 10 |
