chapter 15-17
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| chernozem | black topsoil,one of the worlds most fertile soils.
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| ural mountains | the mountain ranges that seperate the northenrn european and west siberian plains and are used as the dividing line between europe and asia.
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| euraisa | the combined continent of europe and asia.
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| transcaucaucasia | a region that consist of the republics of armeni,azerbaji,and georgia,located between the caucaus mountains and the borders of turkey and iran.
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| central asia | a region that includes the republics of kazakhtan, kyrgyztan,tajikistan,turkmenista, and uzbekistan.
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| siberia | aregion of central and eastern rusisa.
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| continentallity | a egions distance from the moderting inf;uence of the sea.
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| talga | a nearly continous belt of evergreen coniferouse forest across the northern hemisphere.
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| runoff | rainfall not absorbed by soil
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| trans-siberian railroad | a railroad that would eventually link moscow to the port of vladivostok.
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| baltic republics | the countries of lativa,and estonia located on the eatern coast of the baltic sea.
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| czar | the emperor of russia prior to the russianrevolution of 1917
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| russian revolution | the revolt of 1917 in which the russian communist party.
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| ussr | the union of soviet socialist republics or soviet union.
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| cold war | the conflict between the united states and the soviet union after world war 2
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| command economy | a type of economic system in which production of goods and services is demanded.
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| collective farm | an enormouse farm in the soviet union on which large team of laborers were gathered to work together.
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| red army | the name of the soviet unions millitary.
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| supra | georgian term for dinner party.
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| silk road | the 4,000 mile route between china and the medertaraniane sea
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| great game | a struggle between the great britan impire and the russain empire.
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| nomad | a person with no permanent home who moves accordong to the seasons from place to place.
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| yurt | a tent of central asia nomads.
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| caucasus | a region that straddels the caucaus mountains and streches between the black and caspin seas.
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| chechnya | one of the republics that remains a part of russia after the collapse of the soviet union despite independance movment and violent upheaval.
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| nagorno-karabakh | the mountainous area of azerbajian,fought over by armenia and azerbaijian.
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| privatization | the sellin of government owned buisness to private citizens.
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| distacnce decay | a term referring to the concept that increasing distance between places tend to reduce interactions amoung them.
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