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22 Cards in this Set
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what are the major sources of water in the region
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lake baikal holds 20% of the worlds fresh water
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how are the rivers important
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volga river holds 60% of river traffic
ob yenisey and lena rivers drain into the caspian sea pacific ocean baltic sea black and aral seas |
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Kazakhstan
uzbekistan kyrgyzstan tajikistan turkmenistan |
central asia
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russia
estonia latvia lithuania belarus moldova ukarian |
tussia and the western republics
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armenia azerbaijan georgia
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transcaucasia
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what type of vegiaton ...
tundra subartic humid continental semiarid desert |
none
coniferous forests decidous mixed forests grasslands dry schrubs |
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a regions distance from the moderating influence of the sea
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continentality
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an enormous farm in the soviet union on which a large team of laboreres gathered to work toghether during joseph stalins reign
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collective farm
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increasing distances between places ten to reduce interactions among them
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distance decay
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a person with no perminant home
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nomad
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selling of government owned business to private citizens
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privatization
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4,000 mile route between china and the mediterranean sea named for the costly silk acquired in china
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silk road
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why are st. peatersburge and moscow important to the region
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major economic centers for the russian federation
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what was the cold war how did it start
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stalins armies had liverated from germany and the us feared tha a new stage of russian epansion was beginning
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how did the cold war end
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mikhail gorbachev ened the ocld war by giving economic and politac freedom to all
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prince of moscow
put an end to mongals rule |
ivan the great
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ened the cold war
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mikhail gorbachev
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emporer of russia
moved capital to st. peaters window to the west moderized russia |
peater the great
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what casued the russian revolution
what were the effects |
russians revolted
communist party took control of all important decisions |
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what were leaders around the world concerned about after the soviet union split up
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returning contorl to privet indivusiels and businessess
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what event caused the caucasus region to become troubled in the 1980s
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ethnic groups began to take up arms and whin their own independent territorys
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why is there fighing overthe ccaspian sea (lake)
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the region is the leading producer of oil/gas
petrolim deposties are around the lake |
