Lec 5: The Birth of Autocracy

Question 1

Who was the first grand prince of Moscow to name himself tsar, and what does this mean?

Answer 1

Ivan III, autocrat, only ruler

tsar = ceasar = gatherer of lands

Question 2

What system came about as Moscow incorporated more territories, and what were the effects of this system?

Answer 2

The pomeste system. It was a new system for distributing land an resources to the nobility. Service and loyalty to the tsar, and not ancestral claims, determine landholding.

Question 3

What is the duma

Answer 3

Small group of boyars that advise the tsar on political issues

Question 4

Who is Ivan IV’s father

Answer 4

Vasili III

Question 5

What are the colonial features of the conquest of Kazan? When did this take place?

Answer 5

5) Russians are encouraged to move there, Muslim population was encouraged to convert to orthodoxy. 1552

Question 6

Who do the livonians turn to for help? How does the Livonian war turn out?

Answer 6

6) They turn to the Polish-Lithuanian king, the kingdom of Sweden also gets involved. It ends in defeat for Ivan IV

Question 7

7) What is the tsar’s personal group of loyal men called?

Answer 7

7) The oprichnina

Question 8

8) What caused the end of the Rurikid dynasty

Answer 8

8) All of Ivan IV’s sons die. Since succession was vertical, this put an end to his line.