HIS 1307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Kangxi Emperor, Westernization, Chinese Rites Controversy
16 Feb 2016
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Lecture #8 the rise of russia and qing china. Russia is christianized (from byzantium eastern) 988: even to this day, this eastern faith divides russia, many ways still look to constantinople. Moving into era of crusading: western christians crusading slavs (russians) (under mongol yoke, mongols mostly muslim and other asiatic religions. Not overtly religious, more interested in geographic domination. When they took over russians they didn"t force them to convert, they just had to submit to mongol rule (solely political) Alexander nevsky (1220-1263) (famous), fought germans (political, religious hero (saint): seen as defender of true (eastern) christianity. Ivan iv (the terrible) labeled himself first tsar (czar) (comes from caesar : fought mongols, muslims, claims he"s the political inheritor, moscow third rome eastern capital, eastern christianity. Russian soldiers (setting up forts), fur traders, prisoners: fur traders simultaneous to time of french making deals in north america for beaver. Frontier east: prisoners got people out of moscow, but also expanded empire.
