Stearns Ch 18 Rise Of Russia
- 1.What was the state of the Russian economy immediately after the expulsion of the Mongols in the 15th century?
- A.
Russia was already a dependent region within the global economy dominated by the West.
- B.
Fueled by the establishment of the Tatar trade routes with the East, Russia had developed a significant export trade and merchant class.
- C.
Russia had become a more purely agricultural economy, dependent on peasant labor.
- D.
Russia's economic ties were almost exclusively with the Ottoman Empire and hence with Africa.
- E.
Russia was following the West into an economy dominated by merchants and capitalists.
- 2.What government did Ivan the Great claim to have succeeded as the "third Rome"?
- A.
The Byzantine Empire
- B.
The Abbasid Empire
- C.
The Ottoman Empire
- D.
The Umayyad Empire
- E.
Holy Roman Empire
- 3.Why did the Russian expansion policy focus particularly on central Asia?
- A.
The Russians wished to seize control of the trade routes with China.
- B.
Most of the Russian population remained ethnically Mongol with clear cultural ties to central Asia.
- C.
There were natural barriers to westward expansion.
- D.
The Russians were motivated by a desire to push the former Mongol overlords farther back to prevent revewed invasion.
- E.
Russians wanted to control the lucrative fur trade in Siberia.
- 4.Following the death of Ivan IV, Russian boyars attempted to limit tsarist autocracy and gain governing rights for themselves during the
- A.
Russian civil war.
- B.
Boyar War.
- C.
Time of Troubles.
- D.
Great Schism.
- E.
Era of Division.
- 5.What family was selected in 1613 to establish a new ruling dynasty in Russia?
- A.
Romanov
- B.
Radishev
- C.
Molotov
- D.
Habsburg
- E.
Esterhazy
- 6.What tsar was responsible for the abolition of the assemblies of the nobles and reform of the Orthodox church?
- A.
Ivan III
- B.
Ivan IV
- C.
Michael
- D.
Alexis
- E.
Peter I
- 7.Politically, what aspects of Western culture did Peter the Great emulate in Russia?
- A.
Parliamentary government
- B.
Aristocratic control of the bureaucracy
- C.
Royal control over the bureaucracy and reorganized military
- D.
Republicanism
- E.
Separation of church and state
- 8.In what way did Peter the Great shift the foreign policy interests of Russia?
- A.
Peter the Great initiated the Russian invasion of China.
- B.
Peter abandoned the Russian policies of expansion in favor of consolidation at the center.
- C.
Peter allied himself with the traditional Russian enemy, the Ottoman Empire.
- D.
Peter's wars with the Ottoman Empire and Sweden indicated a westward shift in Russian expansion.
- E.
Peter began Russian expansion into North America and Japan.
- 9.Peter the Great established a new capital for Russia at
- A.
Kiev.
- B.
Moscow.
- C.
Novgorod.
- D.
St. Petersburg.
- E.
Ekaterinburg.
- 10.What was Catherine the Great's attitude toward the program of Westernization?
- A.
Catherine flirted vigorously with the ideas of the French Enlightenment, but failed to take steps to abolish serfdom.
- B.
Catherine rejected the concepts of Westernization in favor of a distinctive Russian culture.
- C.
Catherine was eager to continue the policy of Westernization, but was unable to attract Western philosophers to backward Russia.
- D.
She was more interested in the process of Asianization and reforming the aristocracy.
- 11.What was one of the primary differences between the social organization of the West and Russia in the 17th and 18th centuries?
- A.
Russia's merchant class was more fully developed than that of the West.
- B.
The West had no formal aristocracy by the 18th century, but in Russia the nobility retained their political and social function.
- C.
Russia saw a progressive intensification of sefdom while the West was relaxing this institution in favor of other labor systems.
- D.
The agricultural labor of the West was subject to a more restrictive form of serfdom than that of Russia.
- E.
There was much more forced labor in Western Europe than in Russia due to the needs of the growing industrial base.
- 12.What eastern European nation declined most dramatically after 1500?
- A.
Poland
- B.
Hungary
- C.
Austria
- D.
Prussia
- E.
Lithuania
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