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Team OneTeam One
Team TwoTeam Two
Team ThreeTeam Three
Team FourTeam Four
Team FiveTeam Five
Team SixTeam Six
Two key factors that make Russia different
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A. Sheer size
B. Spans 2 continents
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3 Key Rivers which served the Rus as highways for expansion
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Dnieper
Don
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The “navy” from which the people who became the Rus came
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The were Vikings (Varangians) from the
area known as
SCANDINAVIA
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1/6
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Fraction of the globe covered by modern Russia, the world’s
largest country
(17.1 million square miles)
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It made two of England, France, and Spain
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Ivan IV’s Muscovite
Empire, which covered 1
million square miles from the
Urals to the Volga
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Russian for “caesar”
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TSAR
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To a southerner, what you French fry or use to make a picnic salad; to the Rus, the pesky eastern Turkic tribes which
kept invading their land
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TATARS
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What the Russians cleverly call the traumatic early 1600s, a period of famine, disease,
chaos, and despair
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The Time of Troubles
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Russian nobles,
(not to be confused with the maker of Spaghetti-o’s)
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BOYARS
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Mussolini had his black shirts, the fascist paramilitary;
Ivan the Terrible had his black-cloaks, the political police
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The OPRICHNIKI
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1st to be officially crowned TSAR of All Russia
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Ivan IV
(“the Terrible”)
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Wife of Ivan IV, her mysterious death in 1560 was really terrible
for Russia because Ivan the Terrible quit being awesome and
became much more terrible!
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ANASTASIA
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A really “GREAT” guy, he cut off tribute payments to the Mongols in
1480 and was ultimately responsible for the assertion of
Russian independence
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IVAN III
(“the Great”)
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When this Grand Prince of Kiev went shopping for a new Russian
religion, he rejected Roman Catholicism because he didn’t want
to answer to the Pope and Islam because Muslims can’t knock back
a few cold ones. But he thought Constantinople was cool, so he made Orthodoxy Russia’s new
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VLADIMIR
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After a suffering a string of real losers like Thodore, Boris
Godunov, Prince Vasily Shuisky, and a Polish pretender (the false Dmitrii) he was crowned the first
tsar of the ROMANOV DYNASTY.
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Michael Romanov
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The source of Russia’s new religion, it fell to Muslim invaders in
1453 and Moscow became the center of Russian Orthodoxy.
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Constantinople
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Built around the ancient fortress of the Kremlin, it became the most important political, economic,
social, and military city in all the Russian lands when its prince, Ivan
I, became the Mongol’s tax man!
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MOSCOW
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For the ancient Rus, it was the greatest …city, that is!
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KIEV
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Talk about a Time of Troubles…
The Tatars invaded! The peasants revolted! And if that wasn’t enough trouble, these
two countries invaded and captured Moscow in 1610.
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Sweden and Poland
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Along with Siberia, they were invaded and taken by Ivan IV, who was intent on
amassing a Russian Empire.
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Kazan and Astrakhan
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It has 19 towers and ramparts 16 feet thick; it’s a fortress which is
comparable to the emperor’s sacred Forbidden City in Beijing
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The Kremlin
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When he came to bat in 1238, he hit a home run for the Mongols. He destroyed Kiev, too, in 1240.
Grandfather Genghis would have been proud!
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Batu Kahn
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Reigned over the Rus for two and one half centuries, during
which time they hoarded a bunch of Russian gold!
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The Golden Horde
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Byzantine symbol of ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY claimed by IVAN III as his own
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The double eagle
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Unusual method by which Ivan IV achieved a coup d’etat, effectively removing all religious and political constraints which had previously bound him
ABDICATION
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During the Time of Troubles, angry Russians killed him, burned him, loaded his ashes in a cannon, pointed it toward Poland, and fired
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The Polish pretender to the throne
(the False Dmitrii)
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