Objectives 2/24

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Objectives 2/24

• Students will analyze the impact of absolute
  monarchy on Russian society.
• Students will begin their presentations

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Early Russian History
Jim Dzialo Jacobs HS
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Russia Today
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Former Soviet Region Compared in Latitude Area
with the United States
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Russias Time Zones
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Topography of Russia
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Rich Soil of the Steppes
Chernozen Soil
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Siberia ? Permafrost

• Average temperatures of January vary from 0
  to -50C, and in July from 1 to 25C
• 150,000,000 population.

• A former gulag Soviet prison camp.

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Themes in Russian History

• Expansion by conquest.
• Need for warm-water ports.
• The necessity of a strong, central government.
• Under constant attack

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Early Russia
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Early Byzantine InfluencesOrthodox Christianity
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Early Byzantine InfluencesOrthodox Christianity
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Early Byzantine InfluencesCyrillic Alphabet
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Novgorod
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Russian Expansion
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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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The Pendulum of Russian History
Pro-WestFor Progress ChangeEncourage New
Ideas,Technologies, etc.
Anti-WestIsolationistXenophobicUltra-Conservati
ve

• Most Tsars
• Russian Orthodox Church
• Military
• Boyars
• peasants

• A few Tsars
• Intellectual elites
• Merchants/businessmen
• Young members of the middle class.

REFORM-MINDEDLEADER
DEMAGOGUE
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Peter the Great (r. 1682-1725) Modernized Russia
with autocracy.
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Peters legacy

• Modernized the country.
• Made Russia massive in size
• Gained Baltic seaports
• Created a massive empire
• Ended Russian isolation

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Russia Sweden After the Great Northern War