Chapter 18 Review

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Minsk

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Capital of Belarus and administrative center for the CIS

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soviet

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Governing council

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homogeneous

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term that means "the same"

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Crimean

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peninsula in southern Ukraine

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nature reserves

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areas set aside by the government to protect soil, water, plants, and animals

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Georgia

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suffers from a shortage of good land for farming

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serfs

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people bound to the land who worked for a lord

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Dnieper

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provides hydroelectric power and water for irrigation

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Chernobyl

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town where nuclear-reactor disaster harmed the economies and people of Ukraine and Belarus

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important resources of Azerbaijan

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cotton, natural gas, and oil

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Industries in Georgia

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agriculture, fishing, and tourism

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Belarus

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Ukraine lies on the Black Sea, but the country of _______ is landlocked

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potash

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Belarus has large reserves of _______, and is a major peat producer

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elected parliament

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The Caucasus countries are governed by a president, a prime minister, and a(n) ___

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humid continental

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Most of northern Belarus and Ukraine has a _____________ climate

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steppe

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The majority of Azerbaijan has a ________ climate

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earthquake

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Armenia's economic progress slowed when one third of its industry was destroyed by an ___________ in 1988

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Ukraine

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During the Soviet period _______ was an important farming region because of its rich soils and mild climate

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agriculture

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Nearly half of Armenia's GDP is due to

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agrarian society

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Azerbaijan is primarily an

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Black Sea

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The Caucasus region is located between the Caspian Sea and the

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breakup

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All of the Caucasus countries have struggled to recover from the________ of the Soviet Union.

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Cyrillic

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Ukrainian and Belorussian languages use the _______ alphabet

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sugar beets

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Ukraine's economy is dependent on

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Soviet Union

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By 1922 the Caucasus countries had become part of the

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the Pinsk Marshes

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Ukraine contains the Carpathian Mountains, Chernobyl, and plains but does not contain

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agrarian

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organized around farming

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Cossacks

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Nomadic horsemen

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Georgians

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have not influenced Ukraine or Belarus