Chapter 18 Flashcards

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