Early

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Early Russian History
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Former Soviet Region Compared in Latitude Area
with the United States
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Siberia ? Permafrost

• Average temperatures of January vary from 0
  to -50C, and in July from 1 to 25C

• A former gulag Soviet prison camp.

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Themes in Russian History

• Expansion by conquest.
• Need for warm-water ports.
• Autocracy

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Early Russia
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Early Byzantine InfluencesOrthodox Christianity
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Early Byzantine InfluencesCyrillic Alphabet
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Russian Boyars
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The Mongols Invade Russia
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Ivan the Great (r. 1462-1505)
Ivan III Tearing the Great Khans Letter
Requesting More Tribute in 1480.
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Russia in the Late 1500s
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Michael Romanov (r. 1613-1645)
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Romanov Dynasty(1613-1917)
Romanov Family Crest
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Peter the Great (r. 1682-1725)
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Catherine the Great
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Alexander I