Geography
Why are the republics of Kyrgystan and Tajikistan isolated, or cut off, from other countries?
They are isolated by the deserts and mountains of Central Asia.
Who introduced western European ideas to Russia?
Who are Peter the Great and Catherine the Great?
Who denied basic civil rights to the people after his coming to power in 1917?
Who is Lenin?
Very old, decayed plant material that is dug up and cut into bricks.
What is Peat?
This group of people had the most lasting influence on early Russia.
Who are the Slavs?
A single political party controls the government and economy.
What is communism?
This empire isolated Russia from European influence for more than 200 years.
What is the Mongol rule, led by Genghis Khan?
Geographic feature that separates the Northern European Plain from the Western Siberian Plain.
The Ural Mountains
Who were the Bolsheviks, and who led them?
A political group, led by Lenin.
A system in which the government controls economic resources.
What is Socialism?
This person became the first czar in Russia.
Who is Ivan IV, or Ivan the Great's grandson?
What natural resource does the taiga provide?
Timber
An action of retreating in front of the advancing army and destroying crops and other resources that might supply the enemy.
What is scorched earth policy?
Farms on which workers produce food and receive a share of the surplus crops are called this.
What are collective farms?
In revenge, this man led 420,000 troops to invade Russia.
Who was Napoleon?
What is explorer Katey Walter Anthony primarily studying in Siberia?
The Effects of Climate Change
An ancient trade route connecting Eastern Europe and Central Asia with China.
What is the Silk Road?
What race was going on during the Cold War, and who won?
The "Space Race" and the Soviet Union won in 1957.
What happened in 1991 in the Soviet Union?
The Soviet Union collapsed and its republics gained their independence.
This man tried to reform and improve the economy of the Soviet Union and worked with President Reagan to end the Cold War.
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?