Stans and Caucasus Nations Test

Question 1

Describe Armenia

Answer 1

Small Christian nation, landlocked, rugs, genocide from Turkey

Question 2

The Caucasus nations were once

Answer 2

part of the Soveit Union

Question 3

What seas are the Caucasus nations between?

Answer 3

Black Sea and Caspian Sea

Question 4

Which 2 Caucasus nations have had conflict due to religious tensions?

Answer 4

Armenia and Azerbaijan

Question 5

Describe Azerbaijan

Answer 5

Oil, earthquakes prevent investments, pollution problem, rugs, Islam

Question 6

Describe Georgia

Answer 6

Fruit on the left, grains on the right, machinery/agriculture brought them back from economically suffering, 2 differnet ethnic groups want autonomy

Question 7

What are the central asian nations?

Answer 7

Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Question 8

Largest Desserts in Central Asian Nation

Answer 8

Kara Kum and Kyzyl Kum

Question 9

Rural Economic activites in Central Asian Nations

Answer 9

Agricultre, nomadic herding

Question 10

Major environmental problems in Central Asian Nations

Answer 10

Aral Sea- shrank and became smaller (desertification)
Pollution- soil and water contaminated

Question 11

Chernozem is

Answer 11

a rich topsoil

Question 12

Fundamentalism is

Answer 12

a set of religious beliefs based on a strict interpretation of a sacred text

Question 13

Yurts are

Answer 13

tents nomadic herders live in

Question 14

Desertification of the Aral Sea was caused by

Answer 14

diversion of water

Question 15

Describe the Stans

Answer 15

Soviet Union, collective farms, pollution/desertification, Silk Road (4,000 mile trade route from China to Saudi, now tourist trap)

Question 16

Describe the Caucasus Nations

Answer 16

Soviet Union, Ethnic conflict

Question 17

what is autonomy

Answer 17

right or condition of self-governemnt

Question 18

what is genocide

Answer 18

the systematical killing or intentional destruction of a people

Question 19

the desire of Azeri and Armenian cultural groups to rule themselves in separate nations is called

Answer 19

nationalism

Question 20

What is Azerbaijan’s major source of wealth?

Answer 20

oil

Question 21

What is the Silk Road

Answer 21

4,000 mile trade route from CHina to Saudi Arabia (then spilt 2 ways), is now a tourist trap

Question 22

What are products of Georgia?

Answer 22

left: grapes, citrus fruits, peaches, tobacco, tea, silk
right: grains and vegtables

Question 23

What are the other ethnic groups in Georgia?

Answer 23

Azeris, Armenians, Russians

Question 24

What are problems in the Stans

Answer 24

petroleum wastes, sewage, fertilizers

Question 25

What are languages in the Stans

Answer 25

Turkic-related, Russian, Farsi-related

Question 26

what are natural resources in the stans

Answer 26

chernozem, oil, natural gas

Question 27

What did the USSR force the Stans to do?

Answer 27

Nomads forced into villages, people had to work on collective farms, irrigation projects were set up to grow cotton

Question 28

What are the problems in the Aral Sea

Answer 28

saltier water, decrease in fish population, shrinking water volume