Chapter 5 Section 4- Absolute Rulers of Russia

Ivan III of Russia accomplished all of the following EXCEPT

• creating a policy of Russian isolation

• centralizing the Russian government

• liberating Russia from the Mongols

• conquering much of the territory around Moscow

Ivan IV took the title of

• Cesar

• Emperor

• King

• Czar

Russia's landowning nobles were known as

• serfs

• nobles

• boyars

• czars

A grandnephew of Ivan the Terrible's wife, Anastasia, started the

• Romanov dynasty

• Hapsburg dynasty

• Russian Revolution

• Westernization of Russia

One of Russia's greatest reformers was

• Ivan III

• Peter the Great

• Ivan the Terrible

• Anastasia

Peter I believed that Russia's prosperity depended on its having

• A strong Army

• Warm Water Port

• strong Czar

• Advanced technology

Peter increased his power as an absolute ruler by all of the following methods EXCEPT

• getting rid of the office of patriarch

• reducing the power of the landowners

• modernizing the army

• banning people from leaving the country

Which city gave Russia the "window on the sea" that Peter wanted?

• Kiev

• Moscow

• St. Petersburg

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