Deck 25: Russias Eurasian Empire: Convergence of East and West, 1300-1800

Question 1

Mongol rule in Russia was typified by

A) indirect, tolerant rule.
B) strong direct control.
C) harsh oppression.
D) religious toleration, under tight political control.

Answer 1

indirect, tolerant rule.

Question 2

What first separated Russia from Eastern Europe?

A) animosity between Russian and Polish nobles
B) constant warfare in the 1300s
C) conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy in the 900s
D) the Mongol conquest of the 1200s

Answer 2

conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy in the 900s

Question 3

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church was known as the

A) pope.
B) patriarch.
C) caesar.
D) archdeacon.

Answer 3

patriarch.

Question 4

The "Grand Embassy" of Peter the Great to Western Europe was part of which of these?

A) the conversion of Russia to Christianity
B) Russian efforts to gain western support against Mongol armies
C) growing threats from Russia, threatening European powers
D) increasing Russian identification with western Europe

Question 5

Ivan won the support of the boyars by

A) marrying the daughter of the chief boyar.
B) promising them places of importance in the government.
C) promising them land grants and priviliges
D) helping them defeat the Cossacks.

Question 6

Which of these chose the first Romanovs tsar?

A) a coalition of boyars
B) the Zemskii Sobor
C) the Cossacks
D) the Patriarch of Moscow

Question 7

Which of these describe the territorial gains of Ivan IV?

A) He added territory reaching to the Black Sea.
B) He annexed Sweden.
C) He annexed most of Poland.
D) He subjugates the Mongol lands.

Question 8

Which of these tsars' short reign gave rise to the Time of Troubles?

A) Ivan I
B) Ivan IV
C) Boris Godunov
D) Peter I

Question 9

Russia's eastern orientation was reinforced by all of the following EXCEPT

A) conversion to the Orthodox faith.
B) adherence to Byzantine heritage.
C) Mongol conquest.
D) Peter's reign as prince of Moscow.

Question 10

Under what circumstances did Moscow become the dominant city in the Byzantine Orthodox world?

A) The bishop of Constantinople was born and raised in Moscow.
B) The leader of the church was the brother of the new Russian czarina.
C) Constantinople had been overrun by Muslims.
D) Constantinople had been ravaged by a great fire.

Question 11

The fortified area in central Moscow housing churches, palaces, and government headquarters was known as

A) the metropolitan.
B) the Kremlin.
C) Muscovy.
D) the Domostroi.

Question 12

Which Russian city came to new prominence in the period of Mongol rule?

A) Kiev
B) Petersburg
C) Moscow
D) Novgorod

Question 13

What is the name given to the Muscovy assembly, representing different classes of Russians?

A) the Estates General
B) the Zemskii Sobor
C) the Narodnaya
D) the Kremlin

Question 14

Russia was under Mongol rule in about what period

A) tenth and eleventh centuries
B) twelfth and thirteenth centuries
C) thirteenth through fifteenth centuries
D) fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

Question 15

Mongol rule in Russia ended in a confrontation in 1480 between Ivan's armies and the Mongols. What happened during that confrontation?

A) There was some confusion, and both sides withdrew without actually doing battle.
B) Ivan's army defeated the Mongols in the midst of the frozen river.
C) Both sides fought at the ice river banks for thirteen days until the Mongols finally retreated.
D) The Mongols defeated the Russians but decided that occupation of Russia was too costly.

Question 16

Who allied with Ivan the Great in his expansionist policies?

A) Cossacks
B) boyars
C) the merchant class
D) the Orthodox clergy

Question 17

The first Moscow ruler to use the title tsar was

A) Ivan III.
B) Ivan IV.
C) Peter the Great.
D) Catherine the Great.

Question 18

The Time of Troubles officially came to an end with the election of

A) Ivan Ivanovich
B) Boris Gudunov
C) Feodor the Bellringer.
D) Michael Rvomano.

Question 19

Filofei promoted the idea of Moscow as

A) the center of Asian commerce.
B) the commercial hub of Rome.
C) the Third Rome.
D) the greatest European military power.

Question 20

Ivan IV's reformation of the Muscovite military included all of the following EXCEPT the

A) creation of Moscow's first standing army.
B) reliance on the boyars to raise troops.
C) use of gunpowder weapons such as cannons and muskets.
D) creation of an elite royal guard.

Question 21

What first brought Russia into conflict with China?

A) the Russian ruler's assumption of the title "tsar"
B) Russia's overthrow of its Mongol rulers
C) Cossack expansion into Manchuria
D) exploitation of Siberian resources

Question 22

What was most important in Peter's decision to move his capital?

A) commercial connections to Central Asia
B) proximity to Europe
C) historical associations with the Russian nobility
D) ties to the Mongol past

Question 23

Which of these was most weakened under Peter the Great?

A) the peasants
B) the Orthodox Church
C) the boyars
D) the Cossacks

Question 24

The Manchus and Chinese were offended by Russian envoys because the Russian envoys

A) wouldn't speak Chinese.
B) wouldn't participate in Buddhist rituals.
C) destroyed Confucian texts.
D) wouldn't kowtow.

Question 25

Peter the Great's service state effectively made the boyars

A) nobles.
B) extremely powerful.
C) civil servants.
D) his successors.

Question 26

Russians generally referred to all Europeans as

A) French.
B) infidels.
C) Germans.
D) papists.

Question 27

Who brokered the agreement between Russia and China?

A) French Jesuits
B) Italian merchants
C) Buddhist monks
D) the pope

Question 28

Who began the reorientation of Russia towards Europe?

A) Alexis I
B) Peter I
C) Boris Godunov
D) Michael I

Question 29

The practice of "forbidden years" was part of trend to

A) strengthen the Russian monarchy.
B) move peasants towards serfdom.
C) challenge the power of the patriarch of Moscow.
D) westernization in Russia.

Question 30

Who were the Russian settlers who moved into the steppes south and west of Muscovy?

A) boyars
B) the Zemskii Sobor
C) Cossacks
D) shakhmaty

Question 31

What was the goal of the Table of Ranks?

A) support for the Cossacks
B) promotion by heredity
C) promotion by merit
D) support for the Old Believers

Question 32

Which of these is the name given to religious recluses who were seen by some to be prophets?

A) holy fools
B) shakhmaty
C) patriarchs
D) metropolitans

Question 33

The "rule of the kmut" referred to

A) serfdom.
B) Catholicism.
C) orthodoxy.
D) collective liability.

Question 34

What drew Cossacks to Siberia?

A) mining
B) fur trapping
C) available farm land
D) oil reserves

Question 35

Siberia's name originated from the Mongol term meaning

A) frozen land.
B) sleeping land.
C) devil's land.
D) dark land.

Question 36

Which of the following best represents the ideology espoused in the Domostroi?

A) Women and men are equal partners in the home.
B) Men are to dominate the family.
C) Homes should be child-centered.
D) Women and children should be treated gently.

Question 37

How did Russian society develop differently from Western societies?

A) It focused more on military pursuits and less on education.
B) It focused more on spirituality and less on the military.
C) It focused more on collective society than individual liberties.
D) It focused more on individual liberties than collective society.

Question 38

Russian rule of Siberia can be described as

A) unrelentingly harsh.
B) harsh in some ways and lenient in others.
C) indifferent.
D) reducing all its people to serfdom and slavery.

Question 39

Who financed the first conquests of Siberian lands?

A) the Romanovs
B) the Stroganov family
C) the Orthodox Church
D) the princes of Moscow

Question 40

The Russian Orthodox Church schism was triggered by changes in policy instituted by

A) Feodor the Bellringer.
B) Patriarch Nikon.
C) Tsar Filaret.
D) Filofei.

Question 41

Who was Peter's eventual successor to the Russian throne?

A) Dmitri
B) Catherine
C) Elizabeth I
D) Alexis I

Question 42

Catherine I's expansion was primarily to the

A) west.
B) east.
C) south.
D) north.

Question 43

The goal of the "Greek Project" was to

A) restore the Byzantine Empire.
B) restore Catholicism to Greece.
C) conquer the Greek islands.
D) gain an outlet to the Black Sea.

Question 44

What was Catherine's Nakaz?

A) her secret police
B) a treatise on governing that spoke of liberty and equality
C) a treatise on governing that advocated absolutism
D) a harem of men who followed her from place to place

Question 45

Who laid the foundations for Russia's elementary schools?

A) Ivan
B) Peter
C) Feodor
D) Catherine

Question 46

Russia's "holy fools" lived in secluded caves.

Question 47

Peter the Great traveled incognito to western European nations as part of his plan to westernize and modernize Russia.

Question 48

Catherine the Great was the eldest daughter of Peter the Great.

Question 49

Old Russian societies were patriarchal and agrarian.

Question 50

Russia experienced economic growth due to growth of agriculture from its expansion into

A) Siberia.
B) Poland.
C) the Ukraine.
D) Lithuania.

Question 51

What was the inspiration for Catherine's Nakaz?

A) Versailles
B) the Enlightenment
C) war with Poland
D) the Pugachev rebellion

Question 52

Russian serfs established tightly knit societies based on cooperation and a sense of community.

Question 53

Which state did Elizabeth I see as the most serious threat?

A) the Holy Roman Empire.
B) Prussia.
C) Austria.
D) China.

Question 54

Ominously foreshadowing events in the twentieth century, Russia and Prussia twice partitioned the state of

A) Germany.
B) Romania.
C) Bulgaria.
D) Poland.

Question 55

Russia failed to defeat Prussia because

A) Peter III withdrew from the war because he idolized the Prussian leader.
B) Elizabeth married Frederick the Great.
C) all of central Europe joined sides with Prussia.
D) Prussia had gunpowder and cannons.

Question 56

The "Potemkin villages" were located

A) along the border with Poland.
B) in lands taken from the Ottomans.
C) in the marshes of St. Petersburg.
D) in Siberia.

Question 57

Why was Catherine the Great an unlikely candidate for empress of Russia?

A) She was too old.
B) She was a nun.
C) She was German.
D) She was Polish Catholic.

Question 58

The Pale of Jewish Settlement was created by Catherine to

A) keep Jews from moving into traditionally Russian lands.
B) punish Jews from Eastern Europe.
C) force Jews to convert to Orthodoxy.
D) create a new homeland for Europe's Jews.

Question 59

Which of these describes Elizabeth I's attitude towards the work of Peter I?

A) She continued his religious but not his political reforms.
B) She continued and furthered his westernizing reforms.
C) She allowed his plans to lapse.
D) She reversed most of his policies.

Question 60

What was the impact of the Pugachev revolt?

A) It began the Time of Troubles.
B) Catherine turned away from reform toward strengthening her regime.
C) Catherine lost all confidence in the boyars and set out to destroy them.
D) Catherine executed Poniatowski for failing the stop it.

Question 61

What happened in a Russian village if one village family couldn't pay its taxes?

Question 62

Under whose rule did the schism in Russian Orthodoxy appear?

Question 63

Discuss the causes of schism in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Question 64

How did expansion affect Russian ethnicity?

Question 65

How did Peter the Great die?

Question 66

Peter the Great despised western European societies and sought to preserve traditional Russian culture.

Question 67

Discuss the recommendations of the Domostroi regarding the family unit in Russia.

Question 68

What was a Russian metropolitan?

Question 69

Evaluate Asia's influence on Muscovite culture.

Question 70

Catherine's Nakaz was too liberal for French absolutist regimes.

Question 71

Moscow was Peter the Great's "Window on the West.".

Question 72

Siberia was settled by Russian boyars.

Question 73

Who began the attack on the practices of the Old Believers?

Question 74

What was the goal of Peter the Great's Grand Embassy?

Question 75

Evaluate the role of the Orthodox church in Muscovite society.

Question 76

In which battle was Peter the Great humiliated by King Charles XII?

Question 77

What permitted the claim of Ivan the Great to the title of tsar?

Question 78

Discuss the causes and of the Time of Troubles, and how the period came to an end.

Question 79

What was the general direction of expansion under Ivan IV?

Question 80

The Cossacks were sometimes adversaries of Russia's monarchy and at other times they were useful warriors.