Gurule Keyterms Ch 15-17
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Keyterms for chapters 15,16,17
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 chernozem | black top soil |
| Ural Mountains | The mountain ranges that seperate the northern europe and west siberian plains and used as the dividing line between asia and europe |
| Eurasia | the combined continent of Europe and Asia |
| Transcaucasia | a region that consists of the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia; located between the Caucasus Mountains and the borders of Turkey and Iran. |
| Central Asia | A region that includes the republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Ubekistan |
| Siberia | A region of Central and Eastern Russia, stretching from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, known for its mineral resources and for being a place of political exile |
| continentality | a region's distance from the moderating influence of the sea |
| taiga | a nearly continuous belt of evergreen coniferous forests of across the Northern Hemisphere, in North America and Eurasia |
| runoff | water from rainfall that is not absorbed into the soil and instead flows into streams or lakes, which can carry psticides and fertilizers from fields into rivers endangering the food chain |
| Trans-Siberian Railroad | A railroad that would eventually link Moscow to the Pacific Port of Vladivostok, it was built between 1891 and 1903 |
| Baltics Republic | The countries of Lativa, Lithana, and Estonia, located on the eastern coast of the baltic sea |
| czar | a Russian emperor |
| Russian Revolution | The revolt of 1917, in which the Russian Communist Party, led by V. I. Lenin took control if the government from the czars |
| USSR | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Created by Lenin in 1922. and dissolved in 1991 |
| Cold War | the conflict between the US and Soviet Union after WWII called "cold" because it never escaleted into open warfare |
| command economy | An economic system in which the government controls a country's economy. |
| collective farm | an enormous farm in the Soviet union on which a large team of laborers were gathered to work together during Joseph Stalin's reign |
| Red Army | name of Soviet Unions military |
| supra | Georgian(Russian) term for dinner party, with many dishes, courses, toasts, and short speeches |
| Silk Road | the 4000 mild route between China and the Mediterrandea Sean named for the costly silk acquired in China |
| Great Game | a struggle between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for control of Central Asia in the 19th Century |
| Nomad | a person with no permanent home |
| yurt | a tent of Central Asia's nomads |
| caucasus | a region that straddles the caucasas mountains and stretches between the Black and Caspian Seas |
| Chechnya | one of the republics that remains a part of Russsia after the collapse of the Soviet Union despite independence movements and violent upheavel |
| Nagorno-Karabakh | the mountainous area of Azerbaijan, fought over by Armenia and Azerbaijan |
| privatization | the selling of goverment owned buisness to private citizens |
| distance decay | a term referring to the concept that increasing distances between places tend to reduce interactions among them |
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