Density and Distribution
What is the most populous country in Central Asia?
Afghanistan
What are the two predominant religions?
True or False?
Central Asia is rich with a variety of cultures.
True
True or False?
People in Central Asia have a rich literary tradition.
True
True or False?
Tajikistan did not struggle after their authority was dissolved.
False
What shaped the population distribution across the mountain terrain?
Conflict
What country has their own language and alphabet?
What is the religion that all 6 countries are involved in within Central Asia?
Islam
What is the predominant ethnic group within Central Asia?
Pashtun
What is the name of the two major rivers in Central Asia?
Amu Dar’ya and Syr Dar’ya
90% of Armenia follows the Armenian _____ Church.
Apostic
________ has a fantastic evolution of language.
Georgia
What two countries became independent after the fall of the Soviet Union?
Georgia and Armenia
______ and _______ were widespread after the fall of the Soviet Union.
What percent of Armenia's population has left in search for a more prosperous life?
around 20%
What is the most practiced branch within the Islam culture?
Sinni Branch
What is the trade route that is connected to China and the Mediterranean Sea?
Silk Road
What time period did the great novelists emerge through the subregion?
1800s and early 1900s
Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Georgia
Around how many people in Georgia are displaced?
300,000
Where is Russian most spoken within Central Asia?
Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
Define the Mongol forces.
Members of nomadic tribes that live in the northern parts of China.
What is the reason for many ethnic groups in Central Asia?
geographical limits and vast mountain ranges
What day did the U.S. overthrow Afghanistan's Taliban-led government?
September 11, 2001