Chapter 18 vocab

Ural Mountains

A mountain range in the Western Russian Federation, extending north and south from the Artic Ocean to near the Caspian Sea, forming a natural boundary between Europe and Asia; one of the richest mineral area in the world

Caspian Sea

a salt lake between Southeast Europe and Asia: the largest inland sea in the world.

Black Sea

The Black Sea is a marginal Mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East plain, west of the Caucasus and North of Anatolia

Eastern Orthodoxy

Consisting of Christian churches thatoriginated in the church of the western Roman Empire and do not recognize the authority of the pope

Russian Orthodoxy

Is the body of several churches within the larger communion of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, whose liturgy is or was traditionally conducted in Church Slavonic language

Enlightenment

The state of having knowledge of understanding

St.Petersburg

A city in the Eastern part of russia; 2nd largest Russian city; located at the head of the Gulf of Finland; former capital of Russia

Westernization

The adoption of the practices and culture of Western Europe by societies and countries in other parts of the world, whether through compulsion or influence

Ivan IV (the Terrible)

Commonly known in English as Ivan the Terrible, was the grand Prince of Moscow from 1553 to 1547 and the first Tsar of all Russia from 1547 to 1584

Siberia

A vast region and N Khazakhstan: extends from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific and from the Artic Ocean to the borders with China and Mongolia; colonized after the building of the Tans-Siberian Railway

Divine Right

the right that is supposedly given to a king or queen by God to rule a country

Peter the Great

The Russian tzar of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries who tried to transform Russia from a backward nation into a progressive one by introducing customs and ideas from Western European countries

Pale of Settlement

The Pale of Settlement was a western region of Imperial Russia with varying borders that existed from 1791 to 1917, in which permanent residency by Jews was allowed and beyond which Jewish residency, permanent or temporary, was mostly forbidden.

Slavophilism

Was an intellectual movement originating from the 19th century that wanted the Russian Empire to be developed on the basis of values and institutions derived from Russians early history

Table of Ranks

It provided for the separation of the civil from the military service, and it promised ennoblement to any commoner who attained a sufficiently high level of rank

Volga River

The longest river in Europe, situated in Russia, and it flows through Centeal Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea