Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
37 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
The Russian state began in the region between the _______ and the ________ seas.
|
Baltic and the Black
|
|
In the 800s, ________ from Scandinavia came to the region and, in time, adopted the customs and language of the local Slavic population.
|
Vinkings
|
|
Expansion of Russia was halted in the 13th century, with the arrival of invaders from Mongolia, called ________.
|
Tatars
|
|
The Mongols controlled the region until the 1500s, when _________, the powerful prince of Moscow, put an end to their rule.
|
Ivan the Great
|
|
By the end of the 17th century, Russia had built an empire that extented to the ________.
|
Pacific Ocean
|
|
The czar of the Russiain Empire from 1689-1725, named ________, made impressice strides toward modernizing Russia.
|
Peter the Great
|
|
By 1917, the _________ occurred, ending the rule of the czar.
|
Russian Revolution
|
|
By 1922, the __________ had oragnized the different peoples absorbed during the centuries of imperial expansion and created a new nation called the __________.
|
Communist Party, United Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR)
|
|
By the late 1940s, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union led to conflict. Diplomats called the conflict the __________ because it never grew into open warfare between the two nations.
|
Cold War
|
|
In ______, the Soviet Union collapsed, and the ________ ended.
|
1991, Cold War
|
|
_________- one in which the central governmnent makes all the important economic decisions.
|
Command Economy
|
|
_________- which Russians adopted in the 10th century, is the most widely spread religion.
|
Orthodox Christianity
|
|
The vivid psychological insights in the works of writer ___________ (1821-1881) gave and intense portrait of czarist Russia.
|
Feodor Dostoyevsky
|
|
Great Russian musicians such as _________ and ___________ also earned worldwide attention.
|
Alsksandr Pushkin, Igor Stravinsky
|
|
Nearly 30 percent of Russia's population owns homes in the country where they spend weekends and vacations. These holmes are called _______.
|
Dachas
|
|
The ________ Sea led to the trading route of Meditteranean Europe, and roads leading to the Far East began at the ________ Sea.
|
Black, Caspian
|
|
Migrants brought so many different languages of Transcaucasia that Arab Geographers called the religion Jabal Al-Alsun, of the __________.
|
Mountain of Language
|
|
In A.D. 301, _________ made Armenia the first state in the world to adopt Christianity.
|
Armenia's King Tiridate
|
|
Not long after the 7th century beginnings of Islam in Southwest Asia, _________ invaders stormed into the South Caucasus and converted many Transcaucasias to Islam.
|
Muslim
|
|
By 1723, Peter the Great's generals had taken control of Baku, the capital of __________.
|
Azerbaijan
|
|
By he early 1920s, the ________- the name of the Soviet military, had taken control of Transcaucasia.
|
Red Army
|
|
The republics of Transcaucasia regained their political independence in 1991 after the fall of the __________.
|
Soviet Union
|
|
The humid suptropical lowlands and Foothills of the region are ideal for the expensive crops such as ____ and _______.
|
Tea, fruits
|
|
The significance of ____ in Azerbaijan is reflected in the country's name, which means "land of flames."
|
Oil
|
|
The Georgian _______, or dinner party, can involve breathtaking quanities of food or drink.
|
Supra
|
|
Travelers first began to make their way across Central Asia in large numbers
around the year ________. |
100 B.C.
|
|
Traders called this route the ________, after the costly fabric they acquired in China.
|
Silk Road
|
|
Traffic on this route slowed in the 14th century, giving way to less expensive ____ route.
|
Sea
|
|
Interest in Central Asia exploded again in the 19th century when ________ and ________ began to struggle for control of the region.
|
Great Britain, Russia
|
|
By the end of the 19th century, the _____________ had won control of
Central Asia. |
Russian Empire
|
|
In the 1920s, the ____________took control and governed the region until 1991.
|
Soviet Union
|
|
Between 1949 and 1989, Soviet scientists exploded 470 _________ devices in northeastern Kazakhstan.
|
Nuclear
|
|
Winds spread fallout over a 180,000-square-mile area, exposing millions to dangerous levels of ___________.
|
Radiation
|
|
They carved the region into _____ new nations that corresponded to the largest ethnic
groups. |
Five
|
|
However, they deliberately left large numbers of one ethnic group as a __________ in neighboring republics of another ethnic group.
|
Minority
|
|
The expansive Grasslands of Central Asia are ideal for ________.
|
Nomads
|
|
Among the most valuable possession of those people are their tents—called
______. |
Yurts
|