How and why did Russia expand across Asia?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Russian expansion
1. conquest of Kazan in 1552 gave Russia command of the entire length
of the Volga River
a. great corridor of commerce at the western edge of Asia
b. eliminated Russia's rival for control of Siberia's fur trade
c. furs summoned Russians to conquest and colonization
2. task to conquer Siberia and control fur production
a. Czar Ivan IV cut a deal for financing the conquest with a big
dynasty of fur dealers
3. "protection" of Russian armies was proclaimed for native peoples
a. submitted and paid tribute in furs
b. native peoples were controlled by oaths of traditional, pagan kinds
4. success due to technology
a. firearms mounted on river barges
5. eliminated the only state able to challenge Russia in the region
a. Mongol khanate of Sibir
b. sold as a religious crusade for Russians
6. 1689 the Treaty of Nerchinsk drew a Russo-Chinese border across the region
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