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World Geo. Chapter 15 Flashcards

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Major ethnic groups

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Nationalities

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People with their own heritage, customs, beliefs, and language

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Ethnic group

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What language was taught in all schools during the Soviet Era?

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Russian

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Each republic now teaches what language?

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It’s own

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Most people in this region speak an _______ language and come from a ____ background.

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Indo-European

Slavic

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These people are mostly Muslims and live in the republics of Central Asia

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Turkic people

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group of people that are mainly in Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan

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Caucasians

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How many people live in this region?

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285 million

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What is the largest country in the region & with how many people?

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Russia

146 million

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What is the smallest country in the region & with how many people?

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Armenia

3.7 million

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What is the region’s population density?

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33 people per sq mile

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Where do most people live in the region & why?

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West of Urals bc:
Good climate
Fertile farmland
Most minerals found here

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Where are the largest cities of the region located?

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West of Urals

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What are the largest cities?

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Moscow
St. Petersburg
Kiev

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Amoung the first people of the region; came from NE Europe

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Slavs

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warrior traders from Scandinavia; adopted Slavic customs and language; founded city of Kiev

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Varangians

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Who founded Kiev?

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Varangians

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warriors from Central Asia; invaded and destroyed Kiev

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Mongols

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Who destroyed Kiev?

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Mongols

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Who started Moscow?

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Slavs who fled the Mongol invasion

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Supreme leader of Russia

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Czar

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1st czar of Russia in the 1400s

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Ivan the Great

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Edson part of the revolutionary group led by Lenin

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Bolshevik

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Who ruled at the time of the Russian Revolution?

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Czar

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Soviet Union’s intellectual elite

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Intelligentsia

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Religious symbol

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Icon

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Russian term for destructing

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Perestroika

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Russian term for political openness

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Glasnost

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Peasant worker who farmed a plot of land the was owned by someone else

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Surf

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Which ethnic group forms the majority of Russia?

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Russian

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What is the major religion found in Russia?

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Eastern Orthodox Christianity

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Official language of Russia

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Russian

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What percent of Russians live between the Belarus and Ukraine borders and the Ural Mountains?

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75%

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Region that makes up about 75 percent of Russian land and 25 percent of its people

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Siberia

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In March,1917, who established a representative government?

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Bolshevik/Russian Revolution

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The Gulag archipelago describes line in what during Soviet Rule?

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Labor camps

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Main religion in the Caucasus and north of Kazakhstan

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Islam

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German philosopher who advocated a classless society

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Karl Marx

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Fortress in Moscow built by Ivan the Great

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Kremlin

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People who drove out the Mongols in the late 1400s

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Muscovites

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Leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death

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Stalin

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Main religion of these two republics: Kalmykia and Buryatia

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Buddhism

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Who adopted E Ortho. Christianity as the official religion

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Vladimir the Great

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2nd largest religion in Russia

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Islam

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Organized persecution and massacres of Jewish under the czars

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Pogrom

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Philosophy calling for greater economic equality in society

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Socialism

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Skier leader after Stalin; said at the UN “We will bury you.” a threat of war

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Nikita Khrushchev

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Russian roots date back to the late _____.

The time of Prince Ivan the III.

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400s

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What did the Bolsheviks want for Russia?

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New society led by workers

49
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Russian literacy rate

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100%

50
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Which czar gained the long-sought warm water port on the Black Sea?

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Catherine the Great

51
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2nd largest ethnic group in Russia

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Turkic

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Russian newspaper; means “the truth”

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Pravda

53
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In 1957 the Soviets launched the first man made object into space. What was it called?

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Sputnik

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Russian leader who began to lessen restrictions of communism in the late 1980s

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Gorbachev

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Famous Russian author

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Tolstoy

56
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May 1st in Russian

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Workers day

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1st man in space

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Yuri Gagarin

58
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What did Sputnik II carry?

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1st living thing into space

Laika “Barker”

59
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St. Petersburg is located on the Gulf of…..

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Finland

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