Reteaching Activity 1,2, And 3

Front 1

The Russian state began in the region between the _______ and the ________ seas.

Back 1

Baltic and the Black

Front 2

In the 800s, ________ from Scandinavia came to the region and, in time, adopted the customs and language of the local Slavic population.

Back 2

Vinkings

Front 3

Expansion of Russia was halted in the 13th century, with the arrival of invaders from Mongolia, called ________.

Back 3

Tatars

Front 4

The Mongols controlled the region until the 1500s, when _________, the powerful prince of Moscow, put an end to their rule.

Back 4

Ivan the Great

Front 5

By the end of the 17th century, Russia had built an empire that extented to the ________.

Back 5

Pacific Ocean

Front 6

The czar of the Russiain Empire from 1689-1725, named ________, made impressice strides toward modernizing Russia.

Back 6

Peter the Great

Front 7

By 1917, the _________ occurred, ending the rule of the czar.

Back 7

Russian Revolution

Front 8

By 1922, the __________ had oragnized the different peoples absorbed during the centuries of imperial expansion and created a new nation called the __________.

Back 8

Communist Party, United Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR)

Front 9

By the late 1940s, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union led to conflict. Diplomats called the conflict the __________ because it never grew into open warfare between the two nations.

Back 9

Cold War

Front 10

In ______, the Soviet Union collapsed, and the ________ ended.

Back 10

1991, Cold War

Front 11

_________- one in which the central governmnent makes all the important economic decisions.

Back 11

Command Economy

Front 12

_________- which Russians adopted in the 10th century, is the most widely spread religion.

Back 12

Orthodox Christianity

Front 13

The vivid psychological insights in the works of writer ___________ (1821-1881) gave and intense portrait of czarist Russia.

Back 13

Feodor Dostoyevsky

Front 14

Great Russian musicians such as _________ and ___________ also earned worldwide attention.

Back 14

Alsksandr Pushkin, Igor Stravinsky

Front 15

Nearly 30 percent of Russia's population owns homes in the country where they spend weekends and vacations. These holmes are called _______.

Back 15

Dachas

Front 16

The ________ Sea led to the trading route of Meditteranean Europe, and roads leading to the Far East began at the ________ Sea.

Back 16

Black, Caspian

Front 17

Migrants brought so many different languages of Transcaucasia that Arab Geographers called the religion Jabal Al-Alsun, of the __________.

Back 17

Mountain of Language

Front 18

In A.D. 301, _________ made Armenia the first state in the world to adopt Christianity.

Back 18

Armenia's King Tiridate

Front 19

Not long after the 7th century beginnings of Islam in Southwest Asia, _________ invaders stormed into the South Caucasus and converted many Transcaucasias to Islam.

Back 19

Muslim

Front 20

By 1723, Peter the Great's generals had taken control of Baku, the capital of __________.

Back 20

Azerbaijan

Front 21

By he early 1920s, the ________- the name of the Soviet military, had taken control of Transcaucasia.

Back 21

Red Army

Front 22

The republics of Transcaucasia regained their political independence in 1991 after the fall of the __________.

Back 22

Soviet Union

Front 23

The humid suptropical lowlands and Foothills of the region are ideal for the expensive crops such as ____ and _______.

Back 23

Tea, fruits

Front 24

The significance of ____ in Azerbaijan is reflected in the country's name, which means "land of flames."

Back 24

Oil

Front 25

The Georgian _______, or dinner party, can involve breathtaking quanities of food or drink.

Back 25

Supra

Front 26

Travelers first began to make their way across Central Asia in large numbers
around the year ________.

Back 26

100 B.C.

Front 27

Traders called this route the ________, after the costly fabric they acquired in China.

Back 27

Silk Road

Front 28

Traffic on this route slowed in the 14th century, giving way to less expensive ____ route.

Back 28

Sea

Front 29

Interest in Central Asia exploded again in the 19th century when ________ and ________ began to struggle for control of the region.

Back 29

Great Britain, Russia

Front 30

By the end of the 19th century, the _____________ had won control of
Central Asia.

Back 30

Russian Empire

Front 31

In the 1920s, the ____________took control and governed the region until 1991.

Back 31

Soviet Union

Front 32

Between 1949 and 1989, Soviet scientists exploded 470 _________ devices in northeastern Kazakhstan.

Back 32

Nuclear

Front 33

Winds spread fallout over a 180,000-square-mile area, exposing millions to dangerous levels of ___________.

Back 33

Radiation

Front 34

They carved the region into _____ new nations that corresponded to the largest ethnic
groups.

Back 34

Five

Front 35

However, they deliberately left large numbers of one ethnic group as a __________ in neighboring republics of another ethnic group.

Back 35

Minority

Front 36

The expansive Grasslands of Central Asia are ideal for ________.

Back 36

Nomads

Front 37

Among the most valuable possession of those people are their tents—called
______.

Back 37

Yurts