Russia and the Western Republics
What are the 3 Baltic Republics?
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
What is the silk road?
The Silk Road was a trade route that linked the Western world with the Middle East and Asia. It was important for trade between the Roman Empire and China and later between medieval European kingdoms and China.
T/F
Soviet Union was a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy.
False, the Soviet Union was led by a Communist party.
Countries that DO have a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy:
United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Luxembourg, Monaco, Liechtenstein, and Sweden.
What is distance decay?
Long distances between places makes communication and transportation difficult.
What’s the largest country in the world? (We talked a lot about this country in these chapters)
Hint:
Soviet Union
Russia
How did the Russian state come to be? Who settled between the Baltic and the Black sea?
Who are the nomads?
A nomad is a person with no settled home, moving from place to place as a way of obtaining food, finding pasture for livestock, or otherwise making a living.
Who fought over a mountainous area called Nagorno-Karabakh?
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is an ethnic and territorial conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
When was the fall of Soviet Union?
1991
How many territories does Russia have?
21
What were the Mongolian invaders called? What did they do?
Tatars. They invaded and destroyed everything, "like molten lava". They controlled the region until the late 1500s.
What is the largest ethnic group in Central Asia?
Uzbek
How did Russia respond to Chechnya's demand for independence after the fall of the Soviet Union?
In response to Chechnya's demand for independence, Russia invaded Chechnya twice in the 1990s, causing over 100,000 casualties.
Explain the process of privatization.
The transfer of ownership, property or business from the government to the private sector.
Why do Russian architecture look so depressing?
The large ex-soviet apartment buildings reach high into the sky with a lack of color following them. Due to both of these factors an intense feeling of depression and hopelessness is built by the very area the Russians live in.
Why did Ivan the Great decide to move Russia's capital from Moscow to a city in the Baltic sea during his time as a czar?
Russia's science and technology lagged behind that of its European rivals. The new city called St. Petersburg provided direct access by sea to Western Europe.
Why was the silk road important?
It became a route for spreading ideas, technology, and religion.
Why did Caucasus experience so many regional conflicts? Which event led to these conflicts?
There are over 50 ethnic groups that call this area home. The breakup of the Soviet Union.
The nuclear legacy of the USSR has had a serious _________, ________, and ___________ consequences. Brifely explain each.
Political tension:
When the communist government could no longer keep the USSR together, the security of the region's nuclear materials became uncertain.
Economic health:
Many regional leaders have been reluctant to shut down aging Soviet reactors because of the expense of building plants that run on other kinds of fuel.
Enviromental prospects:
Plans for the disposal of other nations nuclear waste angered Russian environmentalists. But other develop ments have given some hope that the region's environmental prospects might improve.
What language were people forced to speak during the Soviet Union?
Bonus:
How do you say "Hi" in Russian?
Russian
Bonus (200pts)
привет (Privet)
What is a command economy? Give an example of a country with this type of economy.
An economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government.
Cuba, North Korea and the former Soviet Union.
Name the countries in Central Asia in order.
K_, K_R_, Ta_, T_, U_
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
Finish the sentence:
"We're ________ in a zone of half-lawlessness, half-law.... We destroyed the old system but replaced it with nothing. There is a ______."
Floating, vacuum.
What does USSR stand for?
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Who's the President of Russia?
Vladimir Putin