Silas Mosco
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I. Rise of Moscow and Russia to 1689 A. Mongol Yoke and Rise 1. Mongol army conquered China and Russia under Genghis Khan, reaching all the way to Hungary before turning back. 2. Golden Horde used terror to force conquered peoples into submission. 3. Ruled the eastern slavs for 200 years a. Built capital Saray on lower volga b. Forced princes to pay tribute and give slaves. c. Khan was acknowledged as supreme ruler. 4. Princes became adept at serving the mongols through tax collection and servants, beginning with Alexander Nevsky. d. Princes put down popular uprisings e. Moscow princes were rewarded with …show more content…
Gave half of purged land to lower service nobility, kept other half for himself. 15. Endless wars and purges depopulated much of central russia. p. Cossacks were formed to fight against the service nobility after peasants fled to the east and south. q. Peasant flight was stopped by tying serfs to land and landholders firmly. r. Urban traders were also bound to their towns and jobs so that the tsar could tax them. 16. Ivan assumed he owned Russia's trade and industry; no security for urban workers existed 17. Death of IIV caused a long struggle for power after his death. s. Theodore (son) died without an heir, initiating the "time of troubles" t. Relatives plotted against and murdered each other and welcomed in the invading sweeds and poles u. Cossacks under Ivan Bolotnikov marched north slaughtering officials and calling for the "true tsar" who would restore justice. 18. Social unrest encouraged nobles to put down quarrels and crushed the cossacks at the gates of moscow. They elected Micheal Romonov as the hereditary tsar. v. Restored autocracy for