January 15, Strayer, chapter 13 pg.572
."Russian attention was drawn first to the grasslands south and east of the Russian heartland, an area long inhabited by various nomadic pastoral peoples, who were organized into feuding tribes and clans and adjusting to the recent disappearance of the mongol empire. from the viewpoint of the merging Russian state, the problem was security because these pastoral peoples, like the mongols before them, frequently raided their agriculture;; Russian neighbors and sold many into slavery. To the east, across the vast expanse of Siberia, Russian motives were quite different, for the scattered peoples of its endless forests and tundra posed no threat to Russia. numbering only some 220,000 in the seventeenth century and speaking more than 100 languages, they were mostly hunting and gathering and herding people living in small scale societies and largely without access to gunpowder weapons. What does Russians across Siberia was opportuinity primarily the soft gold of fur bearing animals, whose pelts were in great demand on the world market.
whatever motives drove it, enormous Russian empire took shape in the three centureiws between 1500 and 1800. A growing line of wooden forts offered protection to frontier towns and trading centers as well as to mounting numbers of Russian farmers. empire building was an extended process, involivng the Russian state and its officials as well s a variety of private interests mechnats hunters peasants, churchmen, exiles, criminals, and advenentures. For the russian migrtans to these new eastern lands, the empire offered econmoic and social improvements over what they haad known at home from more and better land to fewere lords and officials. Political leaders and educated russians generally defined the empire in grander terms defending Russian frontiers enchancing the power of the Russian state and brining christianity, civilization, and enlightenment to savages.
but what did that empire mean to those on its receiving end".
This was all typed out from a section of our history book because I feel if I typed out the content I read through the chapter it will help memorize what the chapter was speciffically about. If I recall in this chapter they were talking about Russians came to be and how they survived throughout the years within their society and how they also evolved as a society. This section of the chapter was typed because I think it had a lot of information that would help me or someone who looks at this blog to memorize briefly what the chapter was about.
."Russian attention was drawn first to the grasslands south and east of the Russian heartland, an area long inhabited by various nomadic pastoral peoples, who were organized into feuding tribes and clans and adjusting to the recent disappearance of the mongol empire. from the viewpoint of the merging Russian state, the problem was security because these pastoral peoples, like the mongols before them, frequently raided their agriculture;; Russian neighbors and sold many into slavery. To the east, across the vast expanse of Siberia, Russian motives were quite different, for the scattered peoples of its endless forests and tundra posed no threat to Russia. numbering only some 220,000 in the seventeenth century and speaking more than 100 languages, they were mostly hunting and gathering and herding people living in small scale societies and largely without access to gunpowder weapons. What does Russians across Siberia was opportuinity primarily the soft gold of fur bearing animals, whose pelts were in great demand on the world market.
whatever motives drove it, enormous Russian empire took shape in the three centureiws between 1500 and 1800. A growing line of wooden forts offered protection to frontier towns and trading centers as well as to mounting numbers of Russian farmers. empire building was an extended process, involivng the Russian state and its officials as well s a variety of private interests mechnats hunters peasants, churchmen, exiles, criminals, and advenentures. For the russian migrtans to these new eastern lands, the empire offered econmoic and social improvements over what they haad known at home from more and better land to fewere lords and officials. Political leaders and educated russians generally defined the empire in grander terms defending Russian frontiers enchancing the power of the Russian state and brining christianity, civilization, and enlightenment to savages.
but what did that empire mean to those on its receiving end".
This was all typed out from a section of our history book because I feel if I typed out the content I read through the chapter it will help memorize what the chapter was speciffically about. If I recall in this chapter they were talking about Russians came to be and how they survived throughout the years within their society and how they also evolved as a society. This section of the chapter was typed because I think it had a lot of information that would help me or someone who looks at this blog to memorize briefly what the chapter was about.
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