Terms to Outline
- Mongol Yoke -- effect on future leadership in Russia
- Ivan I ("Moneybags")
- Ivan III
- service nobility
- Ivan IV ("the Terrible")
- "Time of Troubles"
- Romanov dynasty
- Peter the Great
- westernization
- St. Petersburg
Questions to Consider
- How might the Mongol Yoke have influenced future leaders (like Ivan III) in ruling Russia? What allowed Ivan to stop acknowledging the authority of the khan?
- In what ways does Ivan IV ("the Terrible") make the continued push towards absolutism in Russia?
- Consider the role of the service nobility and the cossacks.
- How is Russian society transformed at the beginning of the Romanov dynasty?
- How did Peter the Great's military rule affect the strength of Russia and Peter's prestige?
- What is westernization and why might it have elevated Russia's status?
- Why was the relocation of Russia's capital to St. Petersburg significant?
Terms to Outline:
- serfdom (e.g. new laws to restrict movement of serfs)
- hereditary subjugation
- Bohemian Estates -- what happens to them in the Thirty Years' War
- robot
- Ferdinand III
- Suleiman the Magnificent
- Jannisaries
- Pragmatic Sanction
- Brandenburg
- Frederick William, the "Great Elector"
- Junkers
- Frederick William I
Questions to Consider:
- Why did serfdom decline in Western Europe and not in Eastern Europe? What did the monarchy have to do with this?
- What was the status of Austria and Prussia after the Thirty Years' War?
- How do the Habsburgs move towards a more absolutist state after the Thirty Years' War?
- How did the Ottoman Turks and the Hungarians pose a threat to the Habsburgs and absolutism?
- What was the state of Brandenburg after the Thirty Years' War? How does Frederick William, the "Great Elector" make the move towards absolutism in Prussia?
- How does Frederick William I later solidify absolutism in Prussia?
