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