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The First Czar
Establishing St. Petersburg
Russia Contrasts with Europe
Peter Visits the West
Westernizing Russia and Peter Rules Absolutly
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When did Ivan IV come to the throne, and at what age?
What is 3 years old in 1533
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What did Peter begin to build, and at what time?
What is 1703 he began building a new city on Swedish lands occupied by Russian troops
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What were serfs treated like?
What is Property
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What were Peter's hobbies and interests?
What is Was fascinated with modern tools and machines in the foreigners’ shops. Had a passion for ships and the sea
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What did Peter believe was Russia's key to success?
What is believed education was Russia's key to success
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How old was he when he had sole power?
What is 16
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What did Peter want to build, and why?
What is a seaport that would make it easier to travel to the West, he thought it would promote education and growth
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What geographic barriers blocked off Russia?
What is Archangel being the only seaport in Northern Russia was choked with ice.
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What did he believe Russians future depended on?
What is On having a warm water port
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What did Peter do to force change on the state?
What is To force change on the state, he put more power on him as an absolute leader
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When did both his good and bad period happen?
What is good: 1547-1560 bad: 1560- death
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How many people died of terrible working conditions and disease when he was building the new city of Sweden?
What is 25,000 to 100,000
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What travelers had to stay in different parts of the city, in Moscow?
What is The Dutch and German
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Why and what did Peter embark on?
What is He embarked on the “Grand Embassy”, a long visit to western Europe. He wanted to learn about European customs and manufacturing techniques
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By the time he died, what had become of Peter's army?
What is By the time peter died his army had 200,000 men and had huge taxes that came with it
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What caused his bad period and what occurred in it?
What is His wife, Anastasia died. Ivan organized his own police force, where their main priority was to hunt down and kill who ever he thought was a terrorist
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What did he order, once St.Petersburg was finished?
What is he ordered many nobles to leave moscow and settle in his new capital, where it soon became a busy port.
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Why did Western Europe and Russia have a big gap?
What is Religion
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What did he resolve from his trip to the west?
What is he resolved that Russia would compete with Europe on both military and commercial terms
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Like Ivan the terrible, what did Peter reduce?
What is like Ivan the terrible peter reduced the landowners power
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What occurred in his good period?
What is he had won great victories, added lands to Russia, gave Russia code of law, and rule justly
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By the time he died, what did he accomplish?
What is By the time he died in 1725, Russia was a power to be reckoned with in Europe
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What main religions were Western Europe, and how did Russians see them?
What is Western Europeans were mostly Catholics or Protestants, Russians saw them as heretics and avoided them.
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What did Peter want to use western Europe as?
What is He wanted to use western Europe as a model for change, saw it as a way to make Russia stronger
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What are five big things that Peter did to westernize Russia
What is What is -he introduced potatoes, which became a staple of the Russian diet - started Russia’s first newspaper and edited its first issue himself - raised women’s status by having them attend social gatherings - ordered the nobles to give up their traditional clothes for Western fashions - advanced education by opening a school of navigation and introducing schools for the arts and sciences