Identifier: medievalmodernti01robi (find matches)
Title: Medieval and modern times; an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Robinson, James Harvey, 1863-1936
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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In manners and cus-toms the kingdom was Asiatic, and its government was likethat of a Tartar prince. Peter had no objection to the despoticpower which fell to him, but he knew that Russia was verymuch behind the rest of Europe and that his crudely equippedsoldiers could never make head against the well-armed andwell-disciplined troops of the West. He had no seaport andno ships, and without these Russia could never hope to takepart in the worlds affairs. His two great tasks were thereforeto introduce Western habits and to make a window, as heexpressed it, through which Russia might look abroad.2 1 The word Tsar, or Czar, is derived from Caesar (German, Kaiser),but was used in Slavic books for the title of the kings of antiquity as Well asfor the Roman emperors. Peter the Great called himself Imperator, thatis, emperor. The Tsar was also known as Autocrat of all the Russias. . 2 For contemporaneous accounts of Peter the Great, see Readings in £ur<hbean History, Vol. II, pp. 303 ff.
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Rise of Russia mid Prussia ; Austria 405 In 1697-1698 Peter himself visited Germany, Holland, Petersand England with a view to investigating every art and science Europe1of the West, as well as the most-approved methods of manu-facture, from the making of a man-of-war to the etching ofan engraving. Nothing escaped the keen eyes of this rude,

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