Career
He and Dimitrie successfully plotted against Prince Constantin Duca (who had obtained the throne, after having Dimitrie deposed by the Ottomans, with the backing of Constantin Brâncoveanu, Prince of Wallachia). Unlike his father, Antioh was not averse to Poland. He also planned for an anti-Ottoman alliance with Russia (then under Peter the Great), one that was came to be during Dimitrie"s rule - the full impact of Russia"s growth had been felt after the 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz.
Although Cantemir increased taxes (especially during his second reign), he was a popular figure, generally viewed as a just and kind ruler.
In 1707, he established the Princely Academy in his capital Iaşi, inspired by Chrysanthus, the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, but largely secular.