My Story
This legendary hero is celebrated in the Epic of Manas.
Who is Manas?
This network of trade routes connected Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
What is the Silk Road?
The Aral Sea lies between these two countries.
What are Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan?
This term means supplying water to crops.
What is irrigate?
This is the name of the boy whose life we read about in the chapter.
Who is Askar?
The Epic of Manas tells the story of saving this country.
What is Kyrgyzstan?
Protests against election fraud in Georgia in 2003 became known as this.
What is the Rose Revolution?
The mostly flat grasslands of Kazakhstan are called these.
What are steppes?
A school that teaches the Islamic religion.
What is a madrassa?
Askar's village struggles to get enough of this essential resource.
What is clean water?
Traditional storytellers in Kyrgyzstan are known by this name.
What is an akyn?
This occurs when the candidate people voted for does not get elected due to cheating.
What is election fraud?
A country with no direct access to an ocean is described by this term.
What is landlocked?
A group of travelers journeying together for safety.
What is a caravan?
Central Asia was once part of this large communist country.
What is the Soviet Union?
This epic poem may be the longest poem in the world.
What is the Epic of Manas?
Azerbaijan blocked a gas pipeline because Armenia supported separatists in this region.
What is Nagorno-Karabakh?
Pollution has damaged the fishing industry in this sea.
What is the Caspian Sea?
A government that keeps strict control and opposes freedom.
What is repressive?
During winter, these freeze and prevent running water from reaching homes.
What are water pipes?
It can take up to this long to recite the entire Epic of Manas.
What is three weeks?
This country experienced the Rose Revolution in 2003.
What is Georgia?
Farmers rioted in Kazakhstan in 1997 because they feared losing access to this resource.
What is water for irrigation?
The opposite of nomadic; living permanently in one place.
What is sedentary?
If a country depends heavily on rivers for irrigation and a neighboring country blocks part of the river's flow, this is the resource most likely to become scarce.
What is water?