POLITICAL
A written plan of government, or law of the land.
What is a Constitution?
money for investment
What is Capital?
The natural features of the land's surface, example deserts, mountains, hills.
What are Landforms?
The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
A struggle between two opposing forces.
What is Conflict?
Government structure in which government actions are limited by law.
What is a Limited Government?
Command system, government owns the means of production, economic decisions are made by central government, and government provides extensive social programs for population.
What is a communist government?
A large and densely populated urban area, city.
What are Urban Centers?
One of the republics that remains a part of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union despite independence movements and violent upheaval.
What is Chechnya?
Russia began as an extension of the Vikings around 800 C.E.
What was the Kievan Rus?
A democracy, or type of government where people choose their leaders or representatives.
What is a Rule by Many government?
A type of economy in which people are free to buy, sell, and produce whatever they want.
What is free enterprise?
Inland areas of water (rivers, lakes, reservoirs etc.).
What are water bodies?
A state in Russia
Where is Chechnya located?
First civilization in Russia that was greatly influenced by the Byzantine.
What is the Kievan Rus?
Government with a monarchy, king or queen.
What is a Rule by One government?
Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain.
What are natural resources?
A sea between Europe and Asia, located in Russia. Russia and Georgia fought over this sea. Because Russia wanted to control the sea ports.
What is the Black Sea?
Church that was the main target of religious persecution under Stalin's regime.
What is the Russian Orthodox Church?
Russia and its political subunits, which include 21 internal republics.
What is the Russian Federation?
A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
What is a Totalitarianism?
A person who believes industries should be publicly owned, community ownership.
What is a Socialist?
A large saltwater lake between Iran and Russia fed by the Volga River, world's largest inland body of water located between Europe and Asia.
What is the Caspian Sea?
There are 186 ethnic groups in Russia. Russia is home to how many languages.
What country has 100 different languages?
The Russian term for ruler or king; taken from the Roman word caesar, also spelled "czar".
What is a Tsar?
A government in which no limits are imposed on the ruler's authority. The leaders don't have to follow the same laws as everyone else.
What is Unlimited Government?
A large government-controlled farm formed by combining many small farms.
What are collective farms?
Mountains Spanning from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea.
What are the Caucasus Mountains?
Russia's predominate religion.
What is Russian Orthodox?
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Created by Lenin in 1922.
What is the USSR?
Legislative body of the Russian government that is controlled by 2 houses: Federation Council and the State Duma.
What is a Duma?
Economic system that combines both private ownership and government ownership of the means of production.
What is a mixed market economy?
The northeastern sector of Asia or the Eastern half of Russia, frozen tundra, temps below -130 degrees below zero.
What is Siberia?
Under the Soviet leadership other cultures were treated as inferior and created tension between the Soviet leaders and the different cultures.
What happened to minority ethnic groups in Russia?
This river was trading center in eastern Europe.
What is the Dnieper River?
A group of states with a central government but independence in internal affairs.
What is a Federation?
Manage production through planned economies so people will get what they need.
What is a state-owned business?
A mountain range that separates Europe from Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
He traveled and analyzed the successes of European culture and its kings and brought back their strategies to Russia.
Who was Peter the Great?
A form of government led by the head of the political party with the most members in parliament.
What is a Parliamentary Republic?
Exchange of goods and services.
What is trade?
The longest river in Europe and Russia's most important commercial river.
What is the Volga River?
This type of governing was created in Russia after the collapse of this tsarist empire in 1917.
What was communism?