Geography Unit 4 Eastern Europe And The Russian Core

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Eastern Europe

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Baltic countries Estonia Latvia Lithuania, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Kosovo etc...

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Karst

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topography terrain dominated by limestone bedrock and rocky ground, caves, sinkholes, underground rivers, absence of surface steams and lakes

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shatter belt

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Eastern Europe known as this because political alliances are constantly shattering and fracturing based on ethnicity

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Balkanization

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Countries around the Balkan peninsula (shatter belt) has seen constant division of larger regions and countries into smaller ones for centuries because of this a division of a region into smaller regions is called this

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ethnic cleansing

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the expelling from a country or genocide of an ethnic group.

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Russian Core

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Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

Ural and Caucasus Mountains

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chernozem

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rich black soil in the Northern European Plain. in Russia and the Ukraine

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permafrost

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permanently frozen layer of soil beneath the surface of the ground. (Tundra of the Russian Core)

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czar

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ruler of Russia until the 1917 revolution

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Russification

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in 19 and 20th century Russia program that required everyone to speak Russian and to become a Christian.

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satellite

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country controlled by another country. Common in Eastern European countries controlled by the Soviet Union

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perestroika

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Gorbachev's plan to restructure and reform the Soviet economy and government

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glasnost

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Russian term for new openness in areas of politics, social and media part of Gorbachev's reform plan.

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black market

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illegal trade of scarce or illegal goods, usually sold at a high price

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privatization

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a change to private ownership of state-owned companies and industries