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Why did Catherine and Peter promote education?(1 point)
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Promotion of education made both rulers look less autocratic, and the Enlightenment was anti-autocracy.
Promotion of education made both rulers look less autocratic, and the Enlightenment was anti-autocracy.

Education was promoted so they could maintain the power of the church.
Education was promoted so they could maintain the power of the church.

Education made people better equipped to learn about the Enlightenment.
Education made people better equipped to learn about the Enlightenment.

Promotion of education allowed people to better understand their rulers.

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Education made people better equipped to learn about the Enlightenment.

Both Peter and Catherine promoted education to modernize Russia — to create a skilled bureaucracy and military and to spread Enlightenment ideas that supported reform and rational administration.