Chapter 18 SQ and Chapter Review Flashcards
Turkistan
Whose capital is Mary
buffer state
A neutral state between two rivals who agreed to keep their armies out.
madrasah
An Islamic seminary
Armenians
Have a unique language with its own alphabet
Silk Road
Linked Rome and China
Mujideen
Strugglers
Taliban
Seekers or students
Wakhan Corridor
A narrow panhandle that Russia and Great Britain created to stretch the buffer zone to china.
Choose 1 nation in this chapter and identify 1-2 ways Russian has influenced their culture.
Kazakhstan has been influenced by Russia and because of that it is a prosperous nation
Why is the Caspian region likely to become a battleground in the future?
Oil
What 2 challenges hinder economic development in Central Asia?
It’s a landlocked area and it was controlled by communist
What did the soviets do in the countries that they controlled in the Caucasus to weaken nationalism and ensure loyalty to the Soviet Union?
Divide the regions by people groups.
Why are there so many languages and cultures in the Caucasus?
There are mountains
Terms
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Explain the significance
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