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AP World History: Modern Ultimate Guide
Unit 1: The Global Tapestry
Unit 2: Networks of Exchange
Unit 3: Land-Based Empires
Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections
Unit 5: Revolutions
Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization
Unit 7: Global Conflict
Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization
Unit 9: Globalization
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Continuity and Change in Russia
- Mongol Invasions
- 862
- The first major East Slavic state, Kievan Rus, is founded and led by the Viking Oleg of Novgorod
- Kiev becomes the capital 20 years later
- 980-1015
- Prince Vladimir the Great converts to Orthodox Christianity, rules the Rurik Dynasty, and spreads new religion
- His son, Yaroslav the Wise, reigns from 1019-1054 and establishes a written code of law
- Kiev becomes a center of politics and culture in Eastern Europe
- 1237-1240
- Mongols invade Kievan Rus, destroying cities including Kiev and Moscow
- The Khan of the Golden Horde rules Russia until 1480
- 1480-1505
- Ivan III, also known as Ivan the Great, rules, freeing Russia from the Mongols, and consolidating Muscovite rule
- 1547-1584
- Ivan IV, also known as Ivan the Terrible, become the first tsar of Russia
- Expands the Muscovite territory into Siberia, while institution a reign of terror against nobility using military rule
- Romanov Dynasty
- 1613
- Mikhail Romanov is coronated as tsar at age 16, ending a long period of instability
- 1689-1725
- Peter the Great introduces Western European culture and builds a new capital in St. Petersburg, modernizes the military, founds the Russian navy, and reorganizes the government
- 1762
- Catherine the Great takes power in a bloodless coup and her reign marks Russia’s era of enlightenment
- A champion of the arts, her 30-plus-year rule also extends Russia’s border
- 1853-1856
- Stemming from Russian pressure on Turkey and religious tensions, the Ottoman Empire, along with the British and French forces, fights Russia and tsar Nicholas I in the Crimean War. Russia is crippled in its defeat
- 1861
- Tsar Alexander II issues his Emancipation Reform, abolishing serfdom and allowing peasants to purchase land
- 1914
- Russia enters WWI against Austria-Hungary in defense of Serbia
Note
5.0(2)
AP World History: Modern Study Guides
AP World History: Modern Ultimate Guide
Unit 1: The Global Tapestry
Unit 2: Networks of Exchange
Unit 3: Land-Based Empires
Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections
Unit 5: Revolutions
Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization
Unit 7: Global Conflict
Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization
Unit 9: Globalization
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