Week # Two - January 16, 2007

LECTURES

  1. The Mongols
    1. The First Arrivals
    2. Who Were the Mongols?
    3. Mongols and Russia
    4. The Success of Lord Novgorod the Great
    5. Novgorod's Independence
    6. The Mongols' Influence on Russia
  2. The Rise of Muscovy
    1. Introduction
    2. The Dominance of the Moscow Line
    3. Dmitrii Donskoi and the Defeat of the Mongols
    4. Vasilii I and Vasilii II
    5. Ivan III and Vasilii III
  3. The Russian Orthodox Church
    1. The Beginnings of Orthodoxy in Russia
    2. After the Fall of Kiev
    3. The Church Before the Schism
    4. The Schism
  4. Ivan IV
    1. Introduction
    2. The First Years of Ivan IV
    3. The Later Years