HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Absolute Monarchy, Despotism, Civilizing Mission
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What is russia: 1700- 1970 (the communist revolution, did the russian empire belong to europe or to asia, not quite one or the other. Germanic peoples: could not have one single rule that applied to all the peoples, had a large jewish population from the acquiring of poland, originally tried to accommodate the jews. Qing empire: as it expanded eastward it came into conflict with the, traditionally had lots of contact with the central asian, as russia expanded, it began to adopt the more nomads. Began to see themselves as europeans ruling over asia. Saw themselves as having a civilizing mission. Began to see colonized peoples as people to be ruled over. In the 1700 europeans saw russia as part of the european state system: they saw the tsar as enlightened despotism , the fact that the tsar was an absolute monarch fit in with the other ruling monarchs in europe. In 1815 (the european coalition defeats napoleon) the.
