Peter the Great Leaders do what is necessary in order to create a stable and secure country‚ shaping the country however they please. Tsar Peter the Great was a secular reforming czar that sought to rid xenophobia‚ and westernize Russia in order to be more modern. To begin with‚ Peter the Great went through times of mental suffering in order to have such mindset of Russian reform. He broke away from his half-sister Sophia because she forced Peter to watch one of his family members to suffer and
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Peter the Great made many reforms in the interest of Russia such as the reorganization of the Government‚ in the military‚ the economy and also in the appearance of his social structure to reflect western ideals. After a visit West did he decide that Russia was not suitable for the modern advancements of their neighboring European nations. Not only did Peter adopt the standard of living of the western European world; his efforts sped up Russia’s development greatly. In the westernization of Russia
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Jack Zhou 1/5/2014 Jason Fisher AP European History Frederick and Peter 18th centuries in Europe is marked by the rise of two new power‚ Russia and Prussia. These two countries came into power within a few generation because of two powerful and wise leaders. These two leaders reformed and expanded their empire. Peter the Great reformed the Old Russian social system and reformed the country‚ while Fredrick the Great of Prussia fought and won the impossible war with Austria
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Peter had returned from his journey through Europe‚ but Something troubled the tsar. The country he had left now seemed to the tsar not fitting to his persona and to the day and age. He felt that the people‚ ideas‚ religion‚ education‚ and government where all centered around ancients teaching. No place or person wanted to modernize or become better ‚ to become like the people he had meet in his travels. Peters Russia sadly was to old and stuck in her ways‚ she was not even close enough to the
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Flemish baroque period in art took place during the 15th and 16th centuries in the North of Europe. One of the most popular and renowned artists of the time was Peter Paul Rubens‚ a Flemish artist‚ who spent many years in Italy studying the stylings of antiquity as well as more contemporary artists such as Caravaggio and Michelangelo. Peter Paul Rubens would go on to adopt the method of figura serpentinata from Michelangelo and the Northern European style of showing the clear appearance and texture
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The 16th and 17th centuries‚ times of great change‚ were lived through by some of the most influential leaders known today. Two of which were Louis XIV and Peter the Great. These monarchs‚ different as the separate continents they lived on‚ shared only minor similarities such as absolutism and territorial expansion. Louis XIV was for the flair‚ fun‚ and fancy‚ focusing on the fact that he was the ‘sun’ of France. A patron of the arts‚ Louis’ policies mainly focused on improving his own social
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was five years old. On the other hand‚ Peter the Great was a leader who ruled the Russian Empire and steered the Tsardom into becoming a huge empire which became a major European power. The efforts of Louis XIV and Peter the Great to gain absolute control over their respective countries were strikingly similar‚ yet had few differences as they each used forms of political‚ religious‚ and societal advantages towards national domination. Louis XIV and Peter were similar in the way they used political
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Westernizing the East: Peter the Great AP European History 27.11.2012 The lands of Tsarist Russia once stretched from Scandinavia to the Pacific. The largest landlocked Empire in the world‚ stretching thousandths of miles across woods‚ plains‚ mountains‚ deserts‚ and the endless Siberian Taiga. 1The Russian people consist one of the most diverse ethnic groups in the world. In the west‚ descendants of Europeans known as the Kievan Rus founded Kyiv and the
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Social reforms of Peter the Great. From January 1‚ 1700‚ Peter the Great introduced a new chronology‚ making the Russian calendar conform to European usage with regard to the year‚ which in Russia had hitherto been numbered “from the Creation of the World” and had begun on September 1 (he adhered however to the Julian Old Style as opposed to the Gregorian New Style for the days of the month). In 1710 the Old Church Slavonic alphabet was modernized into a secular script. Peter was the first ruler
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John Peter Zenger (1687-1746) emigrated from Palatinate‚ Germany in 1710 with his parents and two siblings. They came to America along with 3‚000 other refuges to establish naval stores in New York‚ but unfortunately it was not easy for the Zenger’s to arrive safely since many of the other passengers died during the disastrous voyage. Merely a year after arriving Zenger was apprenticed for eight years to William Bradford‚ a pioneer of American printing. He later opened his own printing company in
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