HIS-1400 Lecture 8: HIS 1400 #8
Document Summary
Russian empire gains power when the mongol empire beings to crumble. Kicking out the mongols: ivan the great (1462-1505) Stops paying mongols and they eventually go away became they are too weak to fight back. Moves capital to moscow to spread the empire. Cossacks (traveling horseman/warriors) take over territories for ivan in the empire. Launch rebellions against russia as payback for being controlled. Consolidating power: ivan married the niece of the last byzantine emperor. Byzantine = rome (falls in 476: took the title of tsar (russian for caesar, head of church and state. Center of political power shifted to constantinople (falls in 1453), also the byzantine empire. Ivan the terrible (1533-1584: tried to eradicate the boyars (aristocrats) who opposed his rule, he established a new aristocracy, oprichniki, civil war broke out upon his death, the romanov family took over, serfs, slaves in russia. The modernizer (peter the great, 1682-1725: european tour 1697-1698, brings back ideas for government, machines and technology/military.
