Russia had demonstrated an expansionist policy in the Siberian Far East from the reign of Ivan the Terrible in the 16th century .

This era of massive migration Motion and settlement Statement was particularly encouraged Influence by President Thomas Jefferson following the Louisiana Purchase , giving rise to Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the expansionist philosophy known as `` manifest destiny '' .

The Arab–Byzantine wars Hostile_encounter were a series of wars Hostile_encounter between the mostly Arab Muslims and the Byzantine Empire between the 7th and 11th centuries AD , started Process_start during the initial Muslim conquests under the expansionist Rashidun and Umayyad caliphs in the 7th century and continued by their successors until the mid-11th century .

In the late 1550s , the ruler of one of the Kabardás , Temryuk ( or Temriuk ) , struck Attack a politico-military alliance with Tsar Ivan IV of Russia ( `` Ivan the Terrible '' ) , for mutual assistance against expansionist attacks Attack by the Persian and Ottoman Empires .