Today we will learn about Ivan the Terrible to the Russian Revolution the Russian Empire from the early days of Ivan the Terrible to the Russian Revolution Please take out your HW: independent reading on Russia from yesterday. Please take out your Explorers Packet as well. Clear off other materials.
Ivan Peter and Catherine Alexander Nicholas
Imperial Russia
Russia Divided For hundreds of years Russia’s population was divided into groups of very rich and very poor.
Golden Horde Mongol conquerors that defeated the princes of Muscovy Dominated Russia for 250 years Collected heavy taxes and forced Russians to serve in the Mongol army.
Imperial Crown of Russia Czar Another term for Emperor Imperial Crown of Russia
The first Czar (Tsar), Ivan the Terrible Overthrew the Golden Horde by 1480 Built the famous Kremlin in Moscow which house St. Basil’s Cathedral and serves their government center much like our White House.
Started to bring Western European ideas and culture to Russia Believed that Russia must have good seaports to become a world power Built St. Petersberg, the new capital, as a “window on the west.” Peter the Great
The arts flourished in Russia The arts flourished in Russia. She encouraged science and literature as well. Expanded Russia’s borders Catherine the Great
Westernization A process of becoming more like Western Europe.
Freed the serfs and gave them their own land Freed the serfs and gave them their own land. The serfs had to pays high taxes to the nobles. Towns were given more control over their own affairs Alexander II
Forced to share his power with a Russian congress after the mass killing known as Bloody Sunday where government troops shot protestors The last czar of Russia overthrown by organized revolutionaries in 1917 Nicholas II
Who Am I? 1 2 3 4 https://app.discoveryeducation.com/learn/videos/10942B62-447A-44DE-974C-410EA83650A7
Let’s Learn what Happens Next. The 20th Century! Please take out the organizer from your blue tub.