The Rise of Russia

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Chapter 24 The Rise of Russia Chapter Summary. The rise of the Russian empire, unlike Western colonial empires, although altering power balances through Eurasia involved only limited commercial exchange. After freeing themselves from Mongol domination by 1480, the Russians pushed eastward. Some extension of territory also occurred in eastern Europe. Regional states, many differing from Russia, were present, with Lithuania and Poland rivaling Russia into the 17th century. Russia, with its Byzantine influenced culture, had been unimportant in world affairs before the 15th century.

• royal authority
• economic lag
• peasant discontent
• russia from the mongols
• importance of the western european
• western dress styles
• military superiority
• russia
• land
• state