Western Civilization II / Unit 3 WC2 0218 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Catherine the Great: Banks, Settlers, Crimea, Poland, a First Look
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The idea
Catherine, a German princess who seized the throne from her husband in seventeen sixty-two, founded state banks and settled Germans on the Volga. She corresponded with philosophes and expanded without pause: Crimea, Central Asia, and Poland partitioned away by seventeen ninety-five.
In practice
Russia stronger at her death in seventeen ninety-six than ever.
Where people slip
Her enlightened side and the partitions belong to unit 06.
Your place on the trail
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