HIST 2600 Lecture 2: HISTORY OF RUSSIA LECTURE 2
23 Feb 2017
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In geographical terms, russia is a unified country. Most prevalent feature is a vast unifying plane. Ural mountains: more akin to hills than mountains (cid:498)mythical(cid:499) dividing line between east/asia and west/europe. Vast majority of ural mountains 450m in height. Consequence of small mountains: no barrier to invasion. However, aids continuous expansion and internal migration. Uniformity of laws, rules and customs, unlike balkans and switzerland. Barrier between black sea and caspian sea. Also a barrier from turkey/islamic powers to try and expand north into. 3 times the size of the urals. Stretches from central siberia all the way western. Volga (mother volga, sung of in folk songs) Russians can use these rivers to easily access the balkan seas, black sea, and. 4 flow south to north into arctic ocean. 1 flows west to east into sea of japan (amur) Were avenues of trade in all directions.
