Sultans and Sultanas
This tsar represented the golden age of the Ottoman Empire. He expanded territory the most and created the most relationships with other ethnic bodies.
Who is Suleiman the Magnificent?
This Tsarina famously started the rebirth of arts and culture in Russia, made the academy of arts, and suppressed many rebellions that spawned after her enlightenment ideals
Who was Catherine I 'the Great'?
This battle ended the Byzantine Empire with the loss of their capital city in 1453.
What was the Siege of Constantinople?
This rebellion under Catherine the Great in 1773-1775 was the largest in Russian history by numbers (3 million). It started by someone pretending to be Catherine’s dead husband and it wanted to free the lower class from oppression.
What was the Pugachev Rebellion?
This trade route generated plenty of the Ottomans’ income. Connecting Europe and Asia, they were able to tax everyone passing through via a key city in the region.
What was the Silk Road?
The sultan attributed with finally taking down Constantinople. He also made the Grand Baazar and unified Kanun law
Who is Mehmed II?
This tsar famously killed his son. He also conquered Kazan and made the Oprachina (an area under direct Tsar control)
Who was Ivan IV 'Terrible'?
This war had a major cost for both sides as the ‘Grand Army’ were forced to flee from Russia in the winter. It resulted in the destruction of Moscow, angry Boyars, and the removal of all French culture in court.
What was the Napoleonic Wars?
This was much more a civil war rather than a rebellion. After the death of Bayezid I, his four sons were forced to fight each other in order to regain control of Anatolia.
What was the Ottoman Interregnum?
This legal policy signed by Catherine the Great officially bounded all Jewish-Russians to a singular region in Russia which often became the target of antisemitism. Its quality of life depended on the feelings of the tsar at the time.
What was the Pale of Settlement?
The founder and first sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Who is Osman I ‘the great’?
This tsar was the first to travel overseas to Europe. He won the Great Northern War. He centralised the legal system, founded St. Petersburg and the Navy, notably he also founded the Academy of Science.
This war was a prime example of Russia’s downfall in failing to take one peninsula from the Ottoman Empire in 1853-1856. It also broke their relationships with the British and French.
What was the the Crimean War?
This time period of 1598-1613 killed over 1/3 of the Russian population. It included plenty of Famines, Social inequality, and 3 pretenders trying to rise up to take the Russian throne after the death of Ivan the Terrible.
What was the Time of Troubles?
This policy officially signed in 1861 by Alexander II freed all of Russia’s lower class and working populations from the land, the serfs.
What was the populations the Emancipation of the Serfs?
A former slave who broke the ‘1 child rule’ and thus became very powerful for being the mother (Valide) of many more sultans. She was also the wife of Suleiman I
Who is Roxelana/Hurrem Sultan?
This tsar freed the Kievan Rus’ out of the control of the Mongols and founded Muscovy which would eventually turn into the Russian Empire.
Who was Ivan III 'The Great'?
his battle was the start of the end for the Ottoman Empire as they lost trying to take this key city in Europe twice from the Hapsburgs. Once in 1529 and again in 1683.
What was the siege/battle of Vienna?
This revolution in the winter of 1825 aimed to get a constitution with the hopes of limiting the power of the Tsar. It failed quickly as it was poorly planned with no support but it did start a culture of revolutions.
What was the Decembrist Revolution?
The legalisation of this method to get rid of competition for the Sultan position was signed by Suleiman. It resulted in many deaths of the royal family and was inspired after the Interregnum.
What was the Legalisation of Fratricide?
The sultan who aimed to reform the Jannisarries but resulted in his death in 1622
Who is Osam II?
This tsar’s “great reforms” came after the loss in Crimea. He famously ended serfdom, started the trans-siberian Railway, and reformed education and military system.
Who was Alexander III?
This war in 1683 to 1699 was the end of the Ottoman Empire. It resulted in the treaty of Karlowitz that made them loose all their European territories, exposed their outdated military, and sparked the Eastern Question.
What was the Great Turkish War?
This rebellion in 1519-1659 came as Sultans became increasingly passive and spoiled. People frustrated at the Janissary corruption rose up for religious acceptance and equality.
What was the Celali Rebellions?
This decree by Ivan III in 1497 unified the legal system, centralised power and clarified crimes. It also tied peasants to land, which contributed to future serfdom.
What was the Sudenbik?