Tsarist Russia: 1855-1917 - Peasants
Mind map of Russian hierarchy in 1855.
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- Tsarist Russia 1855-1917
- Tsar means emperor or king.
- Most people in Russia were peasants. They lived in the countryside and worked on the land.
- Brutality. Men were allowed to openly beat their wives.
- Unhygienic. They slept with their animals.
- Uneducated. They don't understand that sleeping with their animals could cause disease and infection.
- Slavery, peasants, large social gap, unequal, oppressed, unfair hierarchy.
- Male dominated. Men allowed to openly beat their wives as long as they don't kill her.
- Barbaric. The punishments were severe. Especially for female adulterers and horse thieves.
- Less than half the people in Russia were Russian.
- Most people in Russia were peasants. They lived in the countryside and worked on the land.
- Russia borders Europe in the west and Japan and Mongolia in the East.
- Patriarchal - The fathers family line.
- Mores - What you are supposed to do.
- Russian kitchen: Dirty, untidy, un-organised. Suggests they have bigger families because they have bigger kitchens. Wooden. No source of water. Poor country.
- We found surprising the fact that on average, men only lived to be 35.
- Multicultural, diverse, Russian dominating, language, ethnicity, growing, racial tension,influential.
- They had no personal space. 'All household members ate from the same pot'.
- We found surprising the fact that on average, men only lived to be 35.
- English kitchen: Organised, cleaner. Smaller than Russian. Brick. Water pump. Modernised.
- Ostracised - Cast out of the communities
- We learned about the extreme violence in peasant villages.
- Tsar means emperor or king.
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