Term | Definition |
domestication | present-day southern Russia and Ukraine first trained and bred horses for use by humans |
communism | a system in which the government controlled almost all aspects of political and economic life |
Eurasia | others suggest that Europe and Asia should be viewed as a large single continent |
physical characteristics | |
environmental change | |
climates | the term used for the weather patterns that an area typically experiences over a long period of time |
economic activities | |
tundra | treeless plain in arctic areas where sort grasses and mosses grow |
taiga | south of the tundra are coniferous forests |
steppe | a temperate grassland found in Europe and Asia |
multiethnic | containing many ethnic groups |
ethic group | is composed of people who share such things as culture language and religion |
national identity | |
ghetto | |
holocaust | |
velvet revolution | a revolution without bloodshed, which took place in Czechoslovakia during the late 1980 |
privatization | the process of selling government-owned industries and businesses to private owners |
collective farm | a government-owned farm managed by workers who share the profits from their produce |
balkanize | to break up into small mutually hostile political units as occurred in the Balkans after world war 1 |
entrepreneur | a go-getter individual who starts and builds a business |
multiplier | the effect an investment has in multiplying related jobs throughout the economy |
annex | to formally incorporate into a country or state the territory of another |
diversify | to increase the variety of |
chernozem | a rich topsoil found in the Russian steppes and other mid-latitude grasslands |
permafrost | a layer of soil just below the earth's surface that stays permanently frozen |
czar | an emperor of Russia |
abdicate | to surrender one's office, throne or authority |
soviet | in the former Soviet Union, any one of various governing councils |
command economy | an economic system that is controlled by a single central government |
glasnost | a policy of openness introduced in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s |
perestroika | in the former Soviet Union, a policy of economic restructuring |
ruble | the currency of Russia |
black market | the system of selling goods and services outside of official channels |