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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| deciduous | describing trees that shed their leaves in the autumn |
| harness | to get control of and use |
| irrigate | to supply land with water through ditches or pipes |
| complex | highly developed |
| oasis | a fertile area that rises in a desert wherever water is regularly available |
| homogeneous | made up of many things that are the same |
| yurt | a large, circular structure made of animal skins that can be packed up and moved from place to place; used as a home in Mongolia |
| significant | important |
| Caucasus Region | Between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea and south of the Caucasus Mountains is a region called the Caucasus. |
| Central Asia | Central Asia is made up of five countries: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. Kazakhstan is the northernmost and largest country in Central Asia and the ninth-largest country in the world. It also is the most sparsely settle |
| Mountains | The Caucasus Mountains define the Caucasus regionTo the east, two high mountain ranges lie along Central Asia’s border with China |
| Plains and Deserts | Central Asia is made up of lowlands, mountains, and dune-covered deserts. The Kyzyl Kum desert stretches south into Uzbekistan from Kazakhstan, and the Kara–Kum extends over most of nearby Turkmenistan.others |
| Waterways | Black sea, Caspian Sea Aral Sea, |
| A Variety of Climates | Dry conditions across much of Central what is called arid climate.The Caucasus Mountains give Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia climate mountains of eastern Central Asia two large bodies of water Caspian SeaBlack Sea makes the region’s summers cooland wi |
| Soils and Forests | A variety of forests are found in the Caucasus region. Central Asia has few trees because of the arid climate. |
| Energy and Minerals | Important oil and gas resources are found in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan in Central Asia.Most of the Central Asian countries have harnessed their rivers, especially in mountain areas, to produce electricity. |
| conquerors | It was part of the ancient Persian, Greek, and Roman Empires. Later, Persians, Turks, and Russians dominated the region. This history of conquests and migrations makes the Caucasus one of the most ethnically complex places in the world today. |
| Late 1400´s | By the late 1400s, the struggle had shifted to the Persians and a new power in Southwest Asia—the Ottoman Turks. The Ottomans and Persians competed for the Caucasus for the next 300 years. |
| Timurś empire | The Silk Road city of Samarqand was the capital of Timur’s empire. Later, much of the region was conquered by the Mongols in the 1200s and became part of Timur’s Central Asian empire in the late 1300s. Th |
| arts and sciences | is successors continued his support of the arts and sciences by establishing madrassas, Islamic centers of learning. Samarqand became a major center for the study of astronomy and mathematics. |
| economy | . The Caucasus and Central Asia have struggled economically since gaining independence. In many cases, traditional Soviet economic systems prevented the countries from moving forward. |
| languages | Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, Russian official language, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan, the language of each country’s ethnic majority is the official language. Turkmen is spoken in Turkmenistan, Uzbek in Uzbekistan, and Tajik in Tajikistan. |
| Aral sea | To the east, the Aral Sea, a much smaller saltwater lake, straddles the Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan border. Once the world’s fourth-largest lake, the Aral has been shrinking for decades. lost about 90 percent of its water. |
| Equestrian. | (in ancient Rome) a member of the equites |
| syr darýa and amu darýa rivers | The dry climate forces many people in Central Asia to depend heavily on the region’s two major rivers, the Syr Dar’ya and the Amu Dar’ya. The rivers flow from mountains across deserts and are used for irrigation. The Syr Dar’ya begins in the eastern Ferga |
| conquers big prize. | For many conquerors, the greatest prize was control of the Silk Road |
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