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In 750 the Swedish Vikings sailed over the Baltic Sea. They settled in agriculture-based villages called Steppes. These Vikings made trading routes with the Byzantine Empire. The Empire eventually spread Kingdoms across the settlements and the inhabitants were known as Rus, thus the name Russia.
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Mongol raiders invade Russia and captured most of the land except for the Russian Princedom of Moscow.
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After the Mongols invaded, the Russians came back into power and later in the 1800's expanded from Norway to Alaska, down to San Fransisco.
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Ivan the IV, or Ivan the Terrible, became a horrible Russian Czar by having absolute power. If you disobeyed him you were sent to prison, or killed.
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Ivan the Terriible commissioned the St Basil Cathedral building.
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Czar Peter the Great gives freedom to the Russian serfs, but doesn't emancipate them.
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Napoleon tried to invade Russia with 600,000 men, but failed horribly and came back to France with less than 10,000!
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Alexander the II emancipated the serfs and built railroads, built modern banking systems, and established freedom of the press is just a little bit of what he did.
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The Trans-Siberian Railway is created with over 4500 miles of railroad.
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The Russian people turned against Czar Nicholas II and the murdered him and his family by shooting them.
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USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was formed and Communism was established throughout Russia.
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After the dictator V.I. Lenin died, the dictator Joseph Stalin came to power, banning all religions and traditions, and setting impossible work quotas.
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Vladimir Putin becomes president of Russia until Medvadev becomes President in 2008.
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Vladimir Putin is elected president once more and this time, for a six year term, not a four year term.
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The Byzantine Empire influences the Christian culture of Eastern Orthodox upon the Rus citizens.
