Chapter 18

Question 1

On which direction was most of the Russian expansion?

Answer 1

East

Question 2

How did the boyars end the time of troubles?

Answer 2

Elected Michael Romanov to be czar

Question 3

What social classes made up most of Russia between 145 and 1750?

Answer 3

Land owners & peasants

Question 4

What western ideas did Peter the great try to emulate?

Answer 4

Recognize military & royal control of bureaucracy

Question 5

What did Peter the great capture in order to gain a port?

Answer 5

Land on Baltic Sea Fought with Sweden

Question 6

Where did Peter the great move the capital?

Answer 6

From Moscow to St. Petersburg

Question 7

Where did Peter the great concentrate his economic development?

Answer 7

Elite / upper class

Question 8

What did Ivan 4th do?

Answer 8

Attacked nobles, strengthened serfdom, established secret policy

Question 9

How did tsars try to establish control over newly seized territory?

Answer 9

Sent in Cossacks

Question 10

What did Russia eliminate as they moved deeper into Asia?

Answer 10

Nomadic cultures & threat of their attack

Question 11

What ushered in the time of troubles?

Answer 11

Left no heirs to throne

Question 12

While Catherine the great was fascinated by enlightenment ideas, what practice did she continue?

Answer 12

Serfdom

Question 13

What areas did Catherine the great claim?

Answer 13

Alaska, parts of Siberia, parts of pacific coast, participated in division of Poland

Question 14

What indicated Eastern Europe’s status as dependent nations?

Answer 14

Evidence of coercive labor

Question 15

What percentage of Russian people lived on cities or towns?

Answer 15

5%

Question 16

After 1450, what Eastern European nation suffered the greatest decline?

Answer 16

Poland

Question 17

What was the problem with Poland’s central government?

Answer 17

Powerless central government

Question 18

Which principality led the Russian effort to kick out the Mongols?

Answer 18

Moscow

Question 19

Who is given credit for freeing Russia from the Mongols?

Answer 19

Ivan the 3rd

Question 20

What was Russia’s economy like at the time they expelled the Mongols?

Answer 20

Agriculture & heavy dependence on peasant labor

Question 21

What tittle did moscow claim for itself?

Answer 21

3rd Rome

Question 22

List four items which indicate Russia’s dependent economic status

Answer 22

Exportation of raw goods, importation of luxury / manufactured goods, coercive labor system, imitate west

Question 23

What characteristics did Eastern Europe and Russia share?

Answer 23

Dominance of aristocracy, rigid serfdom, lack of commercial & urban class, poverty

Question 24

List four things Russia did during the reign of Ivans

Answer 24

Diplomatic missions to west, western merchants established outpost in Moscow, Italian artists & craftsmen, territorial expansion