Western Civilization II / Unit 3 WC2 0217 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Russia After Peter: Six Times Larger, a European Power
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The idea
Peter died in seventeen twenty-five leaving an empire six times Ivan IV's, the anchor's multiple, dominant in the Baltic with Livonia and Estonia taken, and at peace with the Turks after a failed war in seventeen eleven. Weak rulers followed.
In practice
Too large and too absolute, the anchor says, to lose great-power rank.
Where people slip
The witness gives the Baltic gains and the Pruth treaty.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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