Please read pages 538-546 before class on Monday/Tuesday. Look out for the following:
- What was a tsar/czar? (pg. 538)
- What is Siberia and how was it like a "New World" for Russia? (pgs. 538-540)
- Who were the cossacks and what did they do? (pg. 540)
- Who was Peter the Great and how did he make Russia more like Western Europe? (pgs. 540-541)
- How did the arrival of Europeans change things in the Indian Ocean during this period? (pg. 545)