IVAN THE TERRIBLE -Hated nobles-repressed them

-champion for the poor

First Russian Tsar

-Tsar @16

-Modernized country

-Revised law code

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Oprichniki- secret police -Execution -Confiscation of lands

LEGACY

- Expanded Russia’s borders

-small medieval state-billion acre empire

-Military

ELIZABETH

“greatest monarch of England?”

-English renaissance (increase literacy)

-Acquired land overseas (age of expoloration)

-good and wise ruler

-defeated Spanish Armada

CHARLES I

•imposed taxes on his own (without parliament)•Tried to create uniform religion•Created civil war when he arrested his political opponents•Publicly beheaded

PETER THE GREAT

-created strong navy

-Admired the West (France, England)

-acquired territory (Latvia, Finland, Sweden)

-est. St. Petersburg

-high taxes- led to revolts

-all classes of society- serve the state

-women were not excluded from public life

-started schools, changed alphabet.