Geography
What is the western region?
Over 90% of Russia's population in the 15th to 18th centuries were this social class on the feudal pyramid.
What were serfs?
The Russian king took the title Tsar (sometimes spelled Czar) borrowing it from this term that indicated a Roman Emperor.
What is Caesar?
This was the motivation for the claims to connections of the Byzantine Empire's bloodline established by Ivan the Great.
What is to establish legitimacy?
Who were the Mongols and the Ottoman Turks?
This mountain range separates the Eastern and Western regions.
What are the Ural Mountains?
Russia is considered a European country, but not this.
What is western?
This dynasty would rule the Russian Empire until it ended in 1917.
What is the Romanov Dynasty?
This is the main reason Russia holds the territory adjacent to the Baltic Sea, but not the rest of Russia.
What is to have a warm water port?
Ivan the Terrible wanted to demonstrate his piety and celebrate his achievements through the construction of this cathedral, which was very much a "thing" leaders would do so their legacies were never forgotten.
What is St. Basil's Cathedral?
This peninsula on the Black Sea has been territory taken by the Ukraine, Russian Empire, USSR and presently was reinvaded by Russia. They're still there.
What is the Crimean Peninsula?
This cultural group in Russia and neighboring areas were diverse, semi-nomadic, professional warriors, more egalitarian and essential to the Russian army.
Who were the Cossacks?
Ivan the Great (1) married the last surviving heir to this empire.
What was the Byzantine Empire?
Sino, Franco, Anglo, Russo
What are Chinese, French, English, Russian?
Creating a new capital to legitimize rule was also a thing rulers did to centralize their power. Location was very important. This became the Russian Empire's capital until Peter the Great moved it. It was restored as the capital after the Russian Revolution.
What is Moscow?
Russia presently claims a principality that borders this sea, with Poland to the south and Lithuania to the north of this land.
What is the Baltic Sea?
This would become the official religion of the Russian Empire and dynasty beginning with Ivan the Great.
What is the Eastern aka Russian Orthodox Church?
Ivan the Terrible was paranoid and distrustful of these Russian elites.
Who were the Boyars?
This technology is growing in its use in warfare in the 16th and 17th century, which will make all of the difference in who wins wars.
What is gunpowder?
Mistrust and family issues over succession were an issue in the Russian Empire (at times), and having an heir was of utmost importance. This is what happened to Ivan the Terrible's oldest son.
What is his father accidentally murdered him in a fit of rage.
This is the massive empire existed to Russia's southwest, that they would repeatedly fight with over control of the Black Sea, trade, the people and resources that existed there.
What was the Ottoman Empire
This city located along the Hanseatic Trade Network was a center of trade and cosmopolitan culture in Russia.
What is Novgorod?
He would bring westernization and modernization to Russia through his Grand Embassy.
Who was Peter the Great?
State policy instituted by Ivan the Terrible to take power away from Boyars he didn’t trust (like the Tsar’s medieval secret police) to seize Boyars land, execute many
Who were the Oprichnina?
This refers to a group of people who speak Slavic languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family, and primarily inhabit Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and parts of Central Asia
What is Slavic?