AP Euro – Chapter 15 – Peter the Great Video – Flashcards
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how did peter the great become tsar? who was sophia?
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she was peter's "half-sister"; "Great Soverign" regent while peter was a little boy; she wanted to be tsar but russia wasn't ready for a woman to hold that position just yet; peter's older brother died, so he became co-tsar with his other brother who also died later
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as a child, peter learned what things? what games did he play?
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he loved to build; he played war games; core of his army was boys he grew up playing war games with
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in 1689, what happened? what did peter do to sophia?
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some of the Streltsi favored sophia but most of them didn't recognize a woman so they sided with peter; he confronted her and peter banished her from public life and made her become a nun
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what was peter's life long goal? what problems did he face?
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to westernize/modernize russia and make it a seaport; russia was backward (living in middle ages) and it was also land-locked
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while touring western europe what did peter learn? how did he and his entourage act?
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mainly shipbuilding; they were rowdy and messy and constantly partied
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while peter was traveling what did the streltsi do?
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they stirred up revolt
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after his return from western europe, what did peter want to do? how did he go about doing it? what did he do to the streltsi?
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he waned to modernize everything; executed a lot of the streltsi; made people dress differently and cut off beards
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what did peter want on the baltic? what prevented him?
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wanted a russian port; had to defeat sweden
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when peter was defeated by charles XII, it convinced him to do what?
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they needed all their resources to defeat charles (more soldiers were drafter, church bells were melted to make cannons); required more effort
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how long was the term of service you were drafted into the russian army?
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25 years; the night before a wake was held for them
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may 1703, what did peter do?
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began building St. Petersburg, named for St. Peter (his patron saint)
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the russian people would say that St. Petersburg was built on
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bones
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Poltava- what happened?
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defeated swedish
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peter the great declared the city a city that would
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never be surrendered
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St. Petersburg =
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"venice of the north"
