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How to best describe Centrial Asia?
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Remote, poor, landlocked, harsh, sparsely populated mountains, and deserts
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Until 1991, the region contained only 2 independent countries which were?
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Mongolia and Afghanistan
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What added several independent countries to the region?
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Breaking apart of the Soviet Union
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What is the collective name for former Soviet republics in Central Asia, north of Afghanistan?
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Turkestan
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What was formed by the collision of Indian subcontinent into Asia?
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The Central Asian Highlands
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What is Pamir Knot?
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It is where Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, and Tajikstan meet
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What is a source of many of Asia's large rivers?
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Tibetan Plateau
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Worlds highest mountains are?
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Himalayas
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What is Central Asia's desert belt?
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Gobi Desert
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Type of plains?
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Arid plans of the Caspian and Aral seas to the west
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Gobi Desert is located in?
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China/Mongolia
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What is a Steppe and Taiga?
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Steppe is semi-arid grassland plain, while taiga is coniferous forest
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What animal is well-adapted to the cold, harsh conditions and can provide fat, milk, meat, fur, skin, and be used in plough fields for transportation?
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Yaks
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Caused by overgrazing, poor farming practices
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Desertification
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What does irrigation do?
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Diverts water which results in Shrinking lakes
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80% of freshwater is controlled by whom?
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Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
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By the shrinking of the Aral Sea, what resulted?
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60% of the sea's volume disappeared, causing economic and cultural damages
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What is a geopolitical problem in Central Asia with China?
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China's control in areas where the native people are not Han Chinese
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What is a geopolitical problem in Afghanistan?
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Prolonged and brutal civil war
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Population of Afghanistan?
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32 million
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Population living in urban?
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20%
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90% of the worlds opium is grown where and help funds whom?
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Afghanistan and helps funds the Taliban
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The poorest country in Asia and the most unstable is?
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Afghanistan
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Turkic languages are what?
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Most widely spoken in the region
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Mongolian has how many speakers?
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5 million
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Removal of the Taliban caused what?
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A new struggle for control among the country's many ethnic groups.
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Arid condition in Central Asia even prevail in the?
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Highlands
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Central Asia is located in the?
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Interior of a large continent
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Central Asia's climate is characterized by what?
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Significant differences between summer and winter temperatures
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Central Asia is what type of region? What is it dominated by?
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Central Asia is a dry region dominated by desert steppe climates.
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In the 1970s, which two groups polarized between each other?
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Urban elites who favored industrialization and democratic reforms vs rural conservative religious leaders
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What did the USSR do to get involved in Afghanistan?
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Backed up the former and installed a Soviet supported military council which began to suppress religion
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What spurred nomadic pastoralism and was introduced by the Mongols?
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Domestication of the horse
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What else did the horse provide?
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Military advantages
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Why are no Central Asian countries prosperous?
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Landlocked, leakage of wealth to Han Chinese, more Soviet subsides, and war
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What is one positive energy resources that is attracting investment in Central Asia?
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Oil
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How is Central Asia emerging?
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As a separate entity
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What other types of tension are there?
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Religious tension between China Proper vs Tibet's Buddhists
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Basic summary of Central Asia's geography?
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Landlocked, harsh environment, and climate with extreme temperatures
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Who was Central Asia dominated by for many years?
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Russia and China
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What is needed most to develop an Oil industry?
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Construction of pipelines
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Rural Settlement patterns?
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Alluvial fans important for agriculture
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Subsistence Agriculture shows that in Central Asia only what?
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Only sparse vegetation can survive in this region harsh. Limited agriculture.
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What is Nomadic Pastorialism?
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People raise livestock for subsistence
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What is a current tensions in Central Asia?
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The independence of Tibet from the former Soviet republics.
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What is the cause of Shrinking?
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Use of water from rivers feeding the sea for irrigation
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