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Russia Flashcards

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Northern Latitude Zone

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Colder than most; Most people lived in the west; Gets little sunlight; Likes the cold so they fight during Winter and uses frozen lake to their advantage

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Great Russian Plain

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Rural; Away from cities; Mainly farm

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Environment

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Less populated cities; More rural; More demanding toughness to survive

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Population Triangle

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Most lived in the population triangle

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Ural Mountains

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Division/In both Asia and Europe

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West Siberian Plain

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Swampy

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Tundra

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Arctic desert; Northern and Eastern Russia; Permafrost; Houses are build on stilts

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Taiga

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Woodlands; Vast resources

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Trans-Siberian Railroad

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A railroad that goes all around Russia; Important because it’s the only way to get to eastern Russia

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Steppe

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Vast grassland; Could’ve been the greatest agriculture zone but there weren’t any water

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Chernozem

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Rich, dark soil

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Russian Culture

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Toughness in people/rulers

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Where did the name Russia come from?

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Rurik/Rus

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What characteristics is required to rule Russia?

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Intimidating but also forgiving - Toughness so that they wouldn’t get replaced

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Who formed Kievan Rus?

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Combination between the Slavics and Vikings because the Slavics had powerful forces/size but the Vikings controlled trade

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Dnieper River

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Place north of the Black Sea where the Rus lived; Crossroad of trade between Byzantines, Islamic world, China, and Europe

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Rus

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Rurik named the land after himself: “Land of Rurik”; Viking name - called during 9th and 10th century

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Novgorod

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Capital when Rurik was Tsar during the 9th century

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Kiev

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Largest trading center; Oleg moved Novgorod to Kiev

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Kievan Rus

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9th - 13th centuries; Founded by Rurik

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3 Groups of Russians

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Belarus: White Russians; Russia: Russians; Ukraine: Little Russians

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Orthodox Christianity

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Introduced by Cyril and Methodius from Byzantines -> Olga becomes the first ruler to be baptized -> New way to see religion and political power; Introduction to Cyrillics (New writing language)

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Rulers of Kievan Rus

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Rurik, Oleg, Igor, Olga, Syvatoslav, Vladimir, Yaroslav

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Oleg

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Rurik’s relative who moved the capital from Novgorod to Kiev; Raided Constantinople -> Gained immense wealth and cultural diffusion and trade to Mediterranean civilizations through Byzantines

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Rurik

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Viking; Slavics people/people of Novgorod requested Rurik to restore order and rule over them -> becomes prince of Novgorod and founded Kievan Rus/Rurik Dynasty

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Igor

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Oleg’s son/grandson expanded the influence of Kievan Rus but was killed on one of the expeditions

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Olga

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Brutal/ferocious after the death of Igor, her husband; Kills everyone in the village that killed Igor - Kill all princes, then forgives them, then burns houses; Baptized in the Eastern Orthodox Church -> Becomes 1st ruler of Kievan Rus to be baptized and then becomes a Saint; Showed legitimacy

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Syvatoslav

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Olga’s son; Didn’t convert into Christian; Spread influence across Caspian Sea

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Vladimir I

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Syvatoslav’s son; Incorporated Orthodox Christianity into the main religion of Kievan Rus -> Christian State; Didn’t choose Islam because of dietary restrictions; Didn’t choose Judaism because no countries practiced it as their official religion; Didn’t choose Catholic Christianity because the Pope was the head of the church but Vladimir wanted to pick the head himself; Wanted caesaropapism - Orthodox Christianity -> close relationship between state and church

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Yaroslav / Yaroslav the Wise

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Golden Age of Kievan Rus; Modeled Kiev after Constantinople; Built the St. Sophia Cathedral after the architecture of Hagia Sofia (Byzantines - Justinian); Organized the 1st library; Russkaya Pravda; Spread Orthodox Christianity by extending geological borders to Poland; Created the system of Precedence

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Russkaya Pravda

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Russia’s first codified law; Limited the number of avengers to the closest relatives of the dead - If no avengers, then killer must pay fine and compensation to relatives; Gives various forms of punishments

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System of Precedence

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Rank principality from least powerful to most; When a Duke dies, each noblemen move up once, avoiding conflicts for power

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Icons

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Byzantine icons become the Great Russian painting tradition - more visual because most Russians at the time couldn’t read

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Religious service

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People thinks words are magical, resulting in people having conflict with the translations of the texts

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Metropolitan

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Head of the Orthodox Church / Leading religious figure in the biggest city - Kind of like a Pope

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Cyrillic Alphabet

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Become popular in late 9th century

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Architecture

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Saint Basil’s Cathedral - Cultural diffusion with Byzantines -> Smaller domes but lots of them

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Ivan the Terrible / Ivan Grozny / Ivan IV

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Built St. Basil’s Cathedral because he wanted to build the greatest thing for Russia; 1st Tsar for Russia

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Alexander Nevsky

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Made a decision that shaped the future of Russia; Defeat 1 or the other between Germans and Mongols; Germans want to conquer so Nevsky joins forces with Mongols –> Pay tribute to Mongols -> Some people left and hid into safety from Mongol influence -> Creation of Moscow

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Tatars

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Russian name for the Mongols

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Mongol Invasions

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Mongols aren’t numerous, doesn’t want to conquer but pay tribute;

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Mongols Tax

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The Russian that’s the tax collector for the mongols are the most important person = Princes of Moscow; However, it’s hard to get Russians to pay taxes - Boyars were the only ones who could

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Boyars

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Russian nobles who owns land and control vast number of serfs; Didn’t like caesaropapism that Ivan the Terrible had so

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Serfs

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People who are forced to work and not allowed to leave

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Ivan III / Ivan the Great

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Tells Mongols that they aren’t going to pay taxes

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Ivan the Terrible on Mongols

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Autocracy / Dictatorship / Extremely powerful leadership; Found Mongols the way they fought others

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Conscription

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Forcing people to fight in the army

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Serfdom

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Abundant land + scarce labor; Russian peasants are bound to the land - their village is their entire world - No social mobility

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Taxes

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Because Ivan III and Ivan IV created their own Russian state, they didn’t have to pay taxes; This caused the peasants to inflict hate upon them and because of this, Ivan IV decided to blame the Boyars (Russian nobles who collects taxes) instead

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Ivan the Terrible on Boyars

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Boyars killed his wife because they couldn’t kill him -> Ivan IV retires -> Boyars fought endlessly to determine the next ruler -> Peasants and boyars plead for Ivan IV to return -> Raise his own army of psychos -> Kills boyars

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Autocracy

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Serfdom + Taxation + Conscription; Tyranny - Rulers have absolute power and abusing it

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Muscovite Court

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Coming out of Moscow - Royal court; Center of political, social, and cultural life; Ruling princes and later Tsars

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Tsar

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Russian Ruler/emperor - Comes from Caesar

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Russian Mir

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World, Peace, Village; Serfdom - Their village is their entire world because they can’t leave; If most Russians were serfs, then there were no social mobility in Russia; Merchant class was small; 80% were serfs before WW1

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Communal Living

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Most people don’t own land property but the village do - Land group property

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Veche

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Village Council; Decide interest of families; Collect tax; Send village idiots to army so smart ones remain safe

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Veche Priority

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Avoid risk - keep their village safe; Knows how to handle independent thinkers

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Raising the Red Rooster

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In Russia society, people are very conserved and takes less risks; Freeze or chased out; Unless someone has a prosperous year, the rest will all have no social mobility -> Slow cultural diffusion - no growth in cities

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Russia / Moscow

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Called 3rd Rome because Russians accepted Orthodox Christianity from the Greek Byzantines

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