Russia and Western Republics Adrian Torres Brayan Munoz per.4 by Adrian Torres https://padlet.com/340283/ef42mxek4cto en-us 2016-04-14 18:41:28 UTC 2016-04-22 05:26:04 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.storage.googleapis.com/portrait/monkey.jpg russia 356398 https://padlet.com/340283/ef42mxek4cto/wish/106383602 Russia's growth had lasting effects on nearly land  and people. The Russian state began in the region between the Baltic and Black sea. In the ninth century, Vikings from Scandinavia came to the region to take advantage of the river trade between the two seas.Expansion was halted in the 13th century with the arrival of invaders from Mongolia, called Tatars.In the 1500s, the Russian leader Ivan the Great put an end to two centuries of foreign rule in his homeland. Russia then entered a period of explosive growth. From its center in Moscow, Russia expanded at a rate of about 55 square miles a day for the next four centuries. Russia had taken control of the territory by the late 18th century but did not sell it to the United States until 1867.]]> 2016-04-18 18:22:11 UTC https://padlet.com/340283/ef42mxek4cto/wish/106383602 Closing  340283 https://padlet.com/340283/ef42mxek4cto/wish/106451066 Since Russia’s intervention in Ukraine and Crimea, much attention has been focused on the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which provided Ukraine with security assurances in return for Kyiv signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty  and giving up the nuclear arsenal it inherited from the collapse of the USSR. Twenty years ago before that memorandum was signed by the Russian Federation, the United States and the United Kingdom Ukraine and Crimea were also plunged into a state of turmoil.]]> 2016-04-19 04:28:26 UTC https://padlet.com/340283/ef42mxek4cto/wish/106451066 Background  340283 https://padlet.com/340283/ef42mxek4cto/wish/106451247 Russia’s territorial growth was rapid, but its progress in other ways was less impressive. Russian science and technology lagged behind that of its European rivals. Peter the Great, who was czar or emperor of Russia from 1682 to 1725, tried to change this. He moved Russia’s capital from Moscow to a city on the Baltic Sea. The new capital, named St. Petersburg, provided direct access by sea to Western Europe. Russians called St. Petersburg their window to the West.]]> 2016-04-19 04:31:24 UTC https://padlet.com/340283/ef42mxek4cto/wish/106451247 Key Events  340283 https://padlet.com/340283/ef42mxek4cto/wish/106451707
Cossacks begin conquering Siberia for Russia.
National Council elects Michael Romanov as tsar, ending a long period of instability and foreign intervention. Romanov dynasty rules Russia until 1917 revolution.
Russia conquers Crimea, Ukraine, Georgia, and what later became Belarus, Moldova, as well as parts of Poland.
 Russia suffers setback in attempt to seize territory from declining Ottoman Empire through its defeat in Crimean War.

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Ivan IV, also known as Ivan the Terrible, is crowned the first czar, or emperor, of Russia.
1689-1725
Czar Peter the Great lays the foundation for the Russian Empire.
1855-1881
During his reign, Czar Alexander II frees the serfs, or peasant farm workers.
1917
During the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin (right) and Leon Trotsky take control of the government. In 1918, Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed.
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