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Parallels Between Alfred and the Other Greats








                      • The other “Greats”


                       * Peter the Great, tsar of Russia, 1672-1689

                       *  Catherine the Great, empress of Russia, 1729-1796


                      • Many differences but also key similarities.


                      • Expansion of territories:

                        * Alfred consolidated the lands of the West Angles

                      though wars, treaties & alliances.

                        * Peter fought Sweden to give Russia better access to the

                      Baltic Sea & fought a war against Persia to win land around
                      the Caspian Sea.


                         * Catherine expanded Russian territories through war &
                      diplomacy including expansion into Crimea, land along the

                      coast of the Black & Azov Seas, & colonization of Alaska.
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