1492: The Year the World Began by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Author:Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780061132285
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 2010-11-02T00:00:00+00:00

and similar hordes in the care of other officials and in provincial palaces, “my treasure and my treasures, wherever they shall be.” 25

The year 1492 was the decisive one for the reign, not only because the world failed to end but also because a new world began for Russia when Casimir IV died. His sons divided his inheritance. The only power capable of challenging Muscovy in the vast imperial arena between Europe and Asia dissolved. The frontier between Orthodoxy and Catholicism wavered a great deal in future centuries, but it never strayed far from the lines laid down in the treaties Ivan and his son made with Casimir’s heir. Muscovy became Russia—recognizably the state that occupies the region today. Russia was able to turn east toward the Land of Darkness and begin to convert the great forests and tundra into an empire that has remained Russia’s ever since.

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