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Russia terms
Question | Answer |
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Icebreakers | Ships that are designed to break thick sheets of ice on the open sea |
Taiga Forest | A very large forest mostly of evergreen trees that covers much of Russia |
People who originally settled what is now Russia, Ukraine and Belarus | Slavs |
Scandinavian traders from 800 ad. who settled in the region of Russia, Northern Eurasia and Central Asia | Rus |
Czar | The name for King in Russia |
Serfs | The poorest class of people in Russia pre revolution |
Abdicate | To give up ones throan |
The group that overthrew the czars in Russia and established communism and the USSR | Bolsheviks |
Soviets | The people who passed laws and made decisions on the local level in the USSR |
A network of labor camps in the Ural mountains | The Gulag |
Shatter Belt | The Geographical term for an area of frequent boundary changes |
An industry that focuses on the production of consumer goods such as clothing or house ware | Light Industry |
An industry that focuses on manufacturing based on metals | Heavy Industry |
Zinc is an important element found in what region | Central Asia |
Nomads | People who do not settle but move constantly |
The geographical term for the process of nomads move heard because of seasonal weather changes | trahshumance |
monoculture | The cultivation of one crop in a given area |
Dry Land Farming | Farming that relies on rainfall instead of irrigation |