Chapter 18 : Russia Flashcards

110518924	What did Catherine the Great think of Westernization?	She flirted with the ideas of French Enlighenment, but failed to abolish serfdom	0
110518925	What family was chosen in 1613 to establish a new ruling dynasty in Russia?	Romanov	1
110518926	What eastern European nation declined most after 1500?	Poland	2
110518927	What area was NOT colonized or claimed by Russian empire during Catherines reign?	Bengal	3
110518928	What areas did Russia claim during Catherine the Greats reign?	Alaska, Pacific Coast of North America, California, Poland, and parts of Siberia	4
110518929	What aspects of Western politics did Peter the Great copy in Russia?	Streamlined bureaucracy and reorganized the military	5
110518930	Why did Russian expansion focus on central Asia?	Russians wre motivated by a desireto push the former Mongol overlords farther back to prevent new invasion	6
110518931	Russian empire was successor to what empire?	Rome	7
110518932	How were Polish and Russian governments different?	the central government was powerless in Polish	8
110518933	How did Peter the Great change the foreign policy interests?	His wars with the Ottoman empire and sweden indicated a westward shift in RUssian expansion	9
110518934	Who freed Russia from Mongol control?	Ivan III	10
110518935	Where did Peter the Great place the new Russian capital?	St. Petersburg	11
110518936	Main difference between social organization of the West and Russia in the 17th and 18th centuries?	Russia saw a progressive intensification of serfdom while the West was relaxing this institution in favor of other labor system	12
110518937	What sea was critical in Russian development during Peters reign?	Baltic Sea	13
110518938	Status of merchant class in Russia?	failed to develop	14
110518939	State of the Russian economy after expulsion of Mongols?	Purely agricultural and dependent on peasant labor	15
110518940	Main difference between the Western and Russian empires?	Russia's expansion involved only limited commercial exchange.	16
110518941	Impact of Mongol control over Russia?	lowered cultural and educational levels	17
110518942	Who did Ivan III attack?	Boyars	18
110518943	What are cossacks?	peasants recruited to migrate to newly seized lands in the Russian empire.	19
110518944	When was the Time of Troubles?	After Ivan IV died	20
110518945	What did Romanov do that was seriously important?	Reform Orthodox church, exile old believers to Siberia, Continued colonization in central Asia, abolish noble assemblies	21
110518946	What are "Old Believers"	.Russians who refused to accept tsarist reforms of the Orthodox Church.	22
110518947	What did changing Russias capital do?	reflected the growing importance of Russian dominance of the Baltic Sea	23
110518948	What economic aspects did Peter the Great focus on?	mining and mettallurgy (industry)	24
110518949	Who did Peter direct his policy of cultural Westernization to?	Nobles	25
110518950	What was Catherines government like	was strongly centralized, but yielded virtually all local control to the nobility.	26
110518951	Who had part of Poland?	Russia, Austria, and Prussia	27
110518952	What happened in 1649 with serfdom?	It became hereditary	28
110518953	What made Russia more dependent on the West?	coercive labor	29
121053407	What political center served as the focal point for the Russian liberation from the mongols	Duchy of Moscow	30
121053408	What did Ivan the Terrible want most?	to confirm tsarist autocracy by attacking boyar authority	31
121053409	What was the political voice of the Russian nobility?	Politics of Russian nobility under Catherine from any role in the central government or the military regulated them to strictly local authority	32