The Steppes and Siberia: The Making of a Russian Empire

Question 1

yasak

Answer 1

Russia’s form of tribute paid in cash or in kind; enormous quantities of furs

Question 2

What helped Russia conquest Steppes and Siberia?

Answer 2

modern weaponry and the organizational capacity of a state

Question 3

Catherine the Great

Answer 3

established religious tolerance for Muslims

Question 4

Pressure put on pastoralist to…

Answer 4

convert to Christianity and tax breaks, exemptions from paying tribute, and promise of land or cash motivated them for this conversion

Question 5

The Russia empire transformed the conquered ppl but also fundamentally changed Russia itself. How?

Answer 5

They became a multiethnic empire, Russian declined as a proportion of the overall population but still remained politically dominant

Question 6

Peter the Great

Answer 6

made massive efforts: vast administrative changes, enlargement, and modernization of Russian military forces, new educational systems for the sons of noblemen, and dozens of manufacturing enterprises

Question 7

What kind of Empire?

Answer 7

conquest, settlement, exploitation, religious conversion, and feelings of superiority

Question 8

Russification

Answer 8

race mixing, language, religion, culture