HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Russian Orthodox Church, Habsburg Monarchy, Expansionism
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Idea of alliances was to keep one party from getting too strong: competing for influence in africa and asia. Russia"s westward turn: peter the great looking to the european style, speaking of french, cutting beards, moving capital continued by catherine the great. Territorial expansion: expanded south against ottoman empire, took ukraine (large agricultural plain, bread-basket ) and crimean (central asia, multi-ethnic empire (muslims, jews, continued to expand west against poland (and bordering on hapsburg empire) 50% of population was ethnic russia: general policy was to allow and respect cultural differences (keep status quo, some level of independent governing, tolerate other religions (jewish, buddhist, islamic, muslim) Colonial expansion in asia: many border conflicts with china, nomads of central asia, adopt european view on asia (thinking as they were backwards, primitive and uncivilized) Enlightened despotism : congress of vienna 1815, concert of europe , shift from aristocracy and more borgroieise, russia resisted shift (remained absolute monarchy)
