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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Eurasia Realm | Region of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and the Caucasus |
| Continental climate | Long, cold winters; short, warm summers |
| European West | Fertile farmland; Ukraine = “Breadbasket of Europe” |
| Ural Mountains | Divide between Europe and Asia |
| Siberia | Cold, permafrost, taiga forests; vast and sparsely populated |
| Caucasus Mountains | Rugged region between Black and Caspian Seas; earthquakes, ethnic diversity |
| Volga River | Longest in Europe; flows to Caspian Sea |
| Lake Baikal | World’s deepest lake; symbol of conservation |
| Russification | Forcing minorities to adopt Russian language/culture |
| Demographic crisis | Low life expectancy, high alcoholism, population decline |
| Eastern Orthodox Christianity | Traditional faith; revived after Soviet repression |
| Russian Empire | Expanded east across Siberia for resources |
| Peter the Great | Tsar who modernized Russia and built St. Petersburg as “Window to the West” |
| Lenin (1917) | Leader of Russian Revolution; started Communist state |
| Josef Stalin | Dictator, ruled by terror, gulag system, millions killed |
| Gulag | Soviet forced labor camps |
| Operation Barbarossa (1941) | Nazi invasion; Battle of Stalingrad = turning point |
| Cold War | Political and military rivalry between USSR and the West |
| Warsaw Pact | Soviet-led military alliance during Cold War |
| Collapse of USSR (1991) | 15 republics became independent |
| Holodomor (1932–33) | Stalin’s man-made famine in Ukraine; millions died |
| Chernobyl (1986) | Nuclear disaster in Ukraine, long-term contamination |
| Armenian Genocide (1915–18) | Mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks |
| Near Abroad | Former Soviet states bordering Russia |
| Far Abroad | Russia’s relations with rest of the world |
| Taiga | Vast boreal forest zone of Siberia |
| Permafrost | Permanently frozen ground, limits farming and building |
| Steppe | Fertile grassland zone, especially in Ukraine and southern Russia |
| European Plain | Flat agricultural heartland in western Russia and Ukraine |
| Trans-Siberian Railway | Longest railway in the world; connects Moscow to Pacific |
| Chechnya | Region in Caucasus seeking independence; violent conflict with Russia |
| Central Asia | Landlocked region; crossroads of Silk Road |
| “-stan” | Means “land of” (Uzbekistan = land of Uzbeks) |
| Continental climate | Extreme temperatures, arid, landlocked |
| Desertification | Expansion of deserts due to overgrazing and land misuse |
| Salinization | Salt buildup from irrigation, reduces soil fertility |
| Aral Sea disaster | Shrinking inland sea due to irrigation; ecological collapse |
| Water conflicts | Uneven freshwater; Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan control mountain water sources |
| Nomadic pastoralism | Herding animals while moving seasonally |
| Domestication of horses | Originated in Central Asia ~4000 BCE |
| Yurt (ger) | Portable circular tent used by Mongolian and Central Asian nomads |
| Samarkand | Historic Silk Road city in Uzbekistan; UNESCO site |
| Turkic languages | Most widely spoken language family in Central Asia |
| Islam | Main religion in the “stans” |
| Buddhism | Religion in Mongolia and Tibet |
| Dalai Lama | Spiritual and political leader of Tibetans; in exile since 1959 |
| Ethnic tension in Tibet | Ongoing protests against Chinese rule; dispute over Dalai Lama succession |
| Kazakhstan | Largest country in Central Asia; rich in uranium and metals |
| Uzbekistan | Most populous; cotton farming; Silk Road heritage |
| Kyrgyzstan | Mountainous; hydroelectric energy; modernization efforts |
| Tajikistan | 90% mountainous; part of Himalayas |
| Afghanistan | Landlocked; history of invasions; Taliban, al-Qaeda, opium trade |
| Mujahideen | Afghan guerrilla fighters who resisted Soviets (U.S.-backed) |
| Taliban | Islamist group that took control in 1990s; re-emerged later |
| Al-Qaeda | Terrorist group led by Osama bin Laden; based in Afghanistan during 9/11 |
| Opium production | Afghanistan supplies ~80% of world’s heroin |
| Mongolia | Nomadic culture; yurts and herding traditions |
| Tibet | Autonomous region under China; historically Buddhist theocracy |
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