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565-569 - Analyze how different primary sources

565-569 - Analyze how different primary sources portray Peter the Great of Russia. - Explain the factors that contributed to the re-emergence of serfdom in Eastern Europe (1400-1650. Analyzing Primary Source Documents. Directions :

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565-569 - Analyze how different primary sources

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  1. 565-569- Analyze how different primary sources portray Peter the Great of Russia. - Explain thefactors that contributed to the re-emergence of serfdom in Eastern Europe (1400-1650.

  2. Analyzing Primary Source Documents Directions: Read and analyze the meaning of your assigned document about Peter the Great (Peter I). In your analysis, look for how Peter is being portrayed by the author, and be ready to discuss your document with other members of your group. 1. Bishop Burnet, Peter the Great 1698 2. Von Korb, Diary 1698-99 3. General Alexander Gordon, History of Peter the Great 1718 4. Jean Rousset de Missy, Life of Peter the Great 1730

  3. Read your assigned document and take notes in the chart on how the author describes and views Peter the Great of Russia: Bishop Burnet Von Korb Gen. Gordon Jean de Missy

  4. ABSOLUTISM in Eastern Europe • The 17th century • By the end of the 1600s, absolutism emerged • triumphantly over constitutionalism as the predominant • style of political state. • With the exception of Poland, absolute monarchies • developed in Austria, Prussia and Russia. • Why does this matter? • These three monarchies held great influence until 1918 (end of WWI) and established a tradition of authoritarian style government into the late 20th century. • These absolute monarchs greatly influenced culture by supporting and encouraging the baroque style of art and architecture.

  5. ABSOLUTISM in Eastern Europe • The 17th century • Important differences between the conditions absolute monarchs such as Louis XIV of France and his Eastern counterparts: • Louis XIV had the advantages of an already well established monarchy, bureaucracy, a more limited nobility, a stronger middle class and a peasant class free from serfdom (feudalism). • In Eastern Europe the situation was just the opposite: a powerful nobility, weak middle class and an oppressed peasantry made up of serfs (feudalism still lingered).

  6. Lords and Peasants in Eastern Europe • The Medieval Background • During the period from 1050 to • 1300, personal and economic • freedom for peasants increased, • and serfdom nearly disappeared. • After 1300, lords in eastern • Europe revived serfdom to fight • their economic difficulties • partly caused by labor • shortages from the • Black Death.

  7. Lords and Peasants in Eastern Europe • The Medieval Background • How were peasants bound to the land by nobles? • Lords and nobles made their • kings pass laws that bound • peasants to land and lord. • Ex. Prussian runaway law • for serfs was to hunt • them down and return. • Ex. Prussian law for • runaway servants involved • physical punishment also. • Ex. Russian law only let • peasants move during the • two weeks after harvest.

  8. Lords and Peasants in Eastern Europe • The Medieval Background • How were peasants bound to the land by nobles? • Lords confiscated peasant • lands and imposed greater • labor obligations on them. • Ex. Raised rents, could • also force peasants to • work 6 days per week • without pay for the lord. • Lords also controlled the • legal system acting as local • prosecutor, judge and jailer • ruling in his own favor. • So, in other words, the • nobility held sovereignty • in all local matters!

  9. Lords and Peasants in Eastern Europe • The Consolidation of Serfdom • Hereditary serfdom or • subjugation was reestablished • in Poland, Russia, and Prussia. • Weak monarchs could not or • would not withstand their • powerful nobles’ revival of • serfdom. • Polish nobles had authority • to inflict death penalty. • Russian Tsar lifted the • 9-year time limit

  10. Social, Political, Economic Reasons for Re-emergence of Serfdom in Eastern Europe SocialEconomic Political

  11. Social, Political, Economic Reasons for Re-emergence of Serfdom in Eastern Europe Social -Black Death -Exploited Workers -Laws passed to restrict free movement of peasants -Lords took more and more land away -Hereditary Subjugation

  12. Social, Political, Economic Reasons for Re-emergence of Serfdom in Eastern Europe Economic -Population Decline caused labor shortages. -Agriculture expanded. -Prices rise in 1500s as gold and silver increase. -Serfs were poor and had little economic means to escape or travel very far before recapture.

  13. Social, Political, Economic Reasons for Re-emergence of Serfdom in Eastern Europe Political -Kings losing power in the East. -Noble landlords were gaining power. -Peasants lost power because legislation favored nobles. -Kings also wanted to “squeeze” the peasants. -Peasant revolts in Eastern Europe usually failed.

  14. Peter the Great of Russia

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