Peter the Great recognized the weaknesses of the Russian state and aspired to reform it following Western European models. ... While the tsar did not abandon Orthodoxy as the main ideological core of the state, he started a process of westernization of the clergy and secular control of the church.
D. South America is not touched by the Mediterranean Sea~
<span>Because Kansas had yet to be decided if they were to become a free state or a slave state. Both Pro and Anti Slavery fought for control of its territory.
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