Physical Geography
History
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Central Asia Today
Afghanistan
100
Completely surrounded by land with no direct access to the ocean
What is landlocked?
100
List two goods traded on the Silk Trade Route?
What is silk and spices?
100

A lifestyle where you move from place to place

What is Nomadic?

100
The Aral Sea is ?
What is shrinking?
100

A extremists Muslim group that took power in 1996

What is the Taliban?

200

This country shares a large border with Russia

What is Kazakhstan?

200
The Silk Road trade route saw a decline in the 1500's when it was discovered they could sail this ocean.
What is Indian?
200
A movable round house made of wool felt mats hung over a wood frame.
What is Yurt?
200

Turkmenistan's economy is based on

What is oil, gas, and cotton?

200

The Russians invaded Afghanistan in what year

What is 1979

300
Main crop in Central Asia
What is Cotton?
300
Soviet Union collapsed in this year
What is 1991?
300

The alphabet of most countries of Central Asia, historically 

What is Cyrillic ?

300
Years of ? damaged Tajikistan's economy
What is civil war?
300

Most Afghans see the government as...

Ineffectual and Corrupt

400
The two rivers that flow through the Fergana Valley
What are Syr Darya & Amu Darya?
400
Conquered Central Asia in mid 1800's
What is Russia?
400
Most Christians in region belong to this church
What is Russian Orthodox?
400
Leftover radiation from Soviet nuclear test have led to
What is health problems?
400
Why do some people tend to like the Taliban?

Because they brought order and stability to areas under their control

500
Describe Central Asia's climate
What is hot & dry?
500

This was the place in Afghanistan where the Buddhas were. 

What is Bamiyan?

500
Most people belong to several ethnic groups that are part of this larger group
What is Turkic?
500

 Kyrgz means this

Land of the forty clans.

500

Which group of people have the most rights under the new Afghan government?

Women

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