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Ivan The Terrible Analysis
Ivan IV was a fearful and intelligent King, he was known for his bad attitudes that gave him the name of Ivan the terrible. He was born in Moscow, Russia place where he took hold of later on. His early life was chaos with all his relatives trying to take over their things. to take over his possessions since both parents ha died. Ivan became Tsar of Muscovy in 1547, same year he married Anastasia Romanovna. The time considered the constructive time of his reign and it was given by him the self-government for rural parts, reformatted tax collection, reformed the church and put in the statutory law. In 1552 and 1556, his armies were able to conquer the Tartar khanates of Kazan and Astrakhan. Ivan’s first efforts were successful, with time his

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