HIST 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ural Mountains, Peter The Great, Bosphorus
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Sept 5 introduction: history 106 europe from 1750 to 2000. An artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or other source of info that was created at time under study (newspaper today would not be primary source) Included canada and us but excluded eastern europe (russia) Europe religious divides (cid:862)wester(cid:374) christia(cid:374)ity(cid:863: catholic and protestant (cid:862)easter(cid:374) christia(cid:374)ity(cid:863, orthodox, great schism of 1054 ad. Peter (cid:862)the great(cid:863) aka peter i (cid:862)russia is a(cid:374) e(cid:373)pire (cid:449)ith a europea(cid:374) (cid:373)etropole a(cid:374)d a(cid:374) asia(cid:374) colo(cid:374)y(cid:863) 1721 proclaimed russia an empire and himself an emperor (being tsar russian for caesar not longer sufficient for him) Ural mountains became accepted as continental boundary (political decision had nothing to do with geography) Some people in istanbul live in europe and work in asia (cid:862)europe is(cid:374)"t as (cid:373)uch as a co(cid:374)ti(cid:374)e(cid:374)t as a(cid:374) idea.