Chapter 18: The Rise of Russia Flashcards
How did the early Russian tsars benefit from their expansionist policies into central Asia?
a) The tsars were able to challenge Britain for influence in India.
b) The tsars were able to reward the nobles and attain greater economic advances.
c) The tsars were able to extract revenge on their former Chinese overlords.
d) The tsars claimed personal ownership over the newly conquered lands.
b) The tsars were able to reward the nobles and attain greater economic advances.
Which of the following symbolized Peter the Great’s cultural reforms?
a) the shaving of the nobles’ beards
b) establishment of national awards for successful merchants
c) toleration of religious minorities and laws granting freedom of worship
d) constructing Western-style buildings in Moscow to confirm its role as Russia’s capital
a) the shaving of the nobles’ beards
Although early modern Russia was patriarchal, evidence that Peter the Great’s westernization reforms in Russia reached out to at least noble women includes all of the following EXCEPT
a) the end to the marriage tradition in which a whip was handed from father to bridegroom.
b) decrees westernizing women’s dress and manners and permitting education.
c) the encouragement of women to attend public cultural events.
d) the right of women to sue in court and divorce their husbands.
d) the right of women to sue in court and divorce their husbands.
In order to accomplish her domestic goals, Catherine the Great
a) followed Enlightenment ideas and created a more democratic and representative government.
b) abolished serfdom and slavery.
c) allied with the nobles and gave them absolute control over their peasants.
d) supported peasant demands for social reform and land redistribution.
c) allied with the nobles and gave them absolute control over their peasants.
What were the social consequences of Catherine the Great’s continued expansionist policies?
a) Serfs acquired some basic additional rights.
b) The non-Russian peoples were forced to convert to Orthodox Christianity or pay high taxes to keep their culture.
c) Russian elites considered themselves equal to western European nobility.
d) Landowners were given absolute power over their serfs In exchange for their government services.
d) Landowners were given absolute power over their serfs In exchange for their government services.
Economically, early modern Russia was
a) self-sufficient enough to be uninterested in trade.
b) one of the leaders in the international trade of manufactured goods.
c) poor with few items to export and lacking in valuable raw materials.
d) dependent on foreign merchants for most trade with the West.
d) dependent on foreign merchants for most trade with the West.
The greatest source of social unrest in early modern Russia was due to
a) lack of real reform and grievances of the serfs.
b) rapid growth of towns and factories.
c) the clergy and religious opposition to the non-Christian minorities.
d) The opposition of the nobility to westernization.
a) lack of real reform and grievances of the serfs.
