Livonian War

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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1. What is the war dates?1558–1583
2. What is the key treaties concluding the war?Treaty of Plussa (1583) and Treaty of Jam Zapolski (1582)
3. What was the Livonian War and when did it happen?The Livonian War was a long conflict from 1558 to 1583 where many European powers fought over land in the area of modern Estonia and Latvia.
4. Why did Tsar Ivan IV want to fight in Livonia?He wanted direct access to the Baltic Sea to trade with Western Europe, avoid the Hanseatic League, and make Russia stronger.

Hanseatic League: A powerful medieval commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northwestern and Central Europe.
Union of Lublin: The 1569 act that created the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, a real union of Poland and Lithuania.
Geopolitics: The study of the influence of geography on international politics and relations.