Quizlet Russia and Northern Eurasia Test

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  1. agrarian: society based on agriculture
  2. caravans: people who travel together for safety
  3. cold war: rivalry with the U.S and soviets between 1940 and 1990
  4. cossacks: nomadic horseman from Ukraine
  5. czar: emperor of russian empire
  6. habitation fog: fog caused by smoke that is trapped over siberian cities
  7. homogeneous: sharing characteristics and ethicality
  8. ice breakers: ships that break the ice on frozen waterways to let other ships go through
  9. landlocked: a place with no direct access to water, surrounded by land
  10. mosques: islamic houses of worship
  11. nomads: people who move from place to place
  12. oasis: a spring or well in the dessert
  13. serfs: people bond to the land to work for lords
  14. smelters: factories that produce metal ores
  15. soviet: a communist party that governed
  16. steppe: wide flat grassland, found in Ukraine and kazakhstan
  17. taiga: evergreen trees growing in southern russia
  18. tashkent and samarqand: silk road cities
  19. trans-siberian rail road: longest single line rail road in the world
  20. yurt: movable round houses of wool and felt mats over a wooden frame