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RUSSIA AND THE CAUCASUS & ISRAEL Flashcards

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Capital of Georgia

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Tbilisi

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Capital of Russia

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Moscow

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The capital of Armenia

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Yerevan

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Capital of Azerbaijan

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Baku

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The capital of Turkey

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Ankara

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Capital of Israel

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Jerusalem

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Capital of Lebanon

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Beirut

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Capital of Jordan

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Amman

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Capital of Cyprus

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Nicosia

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Capital of Syria

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Damascus

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Took power ruling as a brutal & paranoid dictator. He set up a command economy

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Joseph stanlin

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Soviet leader & brutal dictator.

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Ivan the terrible

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What year did the Soviet Union collapse?

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1991

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separate Russia from Asia.

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The Ural Mountains

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Russia’s government:

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Federal Republic

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The US opposed to communism & this led to the Cold war with Russia, this war was called the

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The cold war

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Czar:

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Emperor

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Russia’s climate: .

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Cold

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Valuable resource is in the Caspian Sea: .

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Oil

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A form of a Greek alphabet: .

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Cyrillic

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Russia’s food: .

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Caviar

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Caucasus country with an economy based on oil:

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Azerbaijan

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The Jordan River empties in a large LAKE named

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the Dead Sea.

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Its the lowest point in the world, the river is really salty & only bacteria lives there

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Dead Sea

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2 deserts found in Eastern Mediterranean:

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Syrian Desert & Negev Desert.

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What are phosphates? .

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Are used to make fertilizers

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1st president of Turkey

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Kemal Ataturk

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Turkey’s largest city:

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Istanbul

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What are some foods in Turkey? .

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Kebabs

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Dispersal of jewish population.

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Diaspora

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Israel’s largest city:

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Tel-Aviv

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Israel’s 2 official languages:

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Hebrew & Arabic.

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Land were there is 3 religions: Christianity, Judaism & Islam.

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Holy Land

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What are the three religions that composed the Holy Land

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Christianity, Judaism & Islam

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Israel’s government:

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Federal Republic.

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What mineral resource is produced by Israel, Syria, & Jordan?

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Phosphates

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What Sea is in the west of the Caucasus?

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Black Sea

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What sea is in the East of the Caucasus

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Caspian sea

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border Russia and the Caucasus.

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The Black Sea and the Caspian Sea

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connects to the Mediterranean Sea and is important for trade.

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The Black Sea

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holds saltwater and is the world’s largest inland sea

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Caspian Sea

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The countries of the Eastern Mediterranean make up part of a larger region called Southwest Asia:

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Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Cyprus, Syria & Lebanon.

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are narrow waterway separates Europe from Asia.

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The Dardanelles, the Bosporus & the Sea of Marmara

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also splits the country of Turkey into two parts, a small part lies in Europe and the rest in Asia.

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Bosporus

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begins in Syria and flows south through Israel and Jordan.

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The Jordan River

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a vast forest of evergreen trees.

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Taiga

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a radical Russian Communist group.

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Bolsheviks

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harsh Soviet labor camps often located in Siberia.

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Gulags

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Russian country houses

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Dachas

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factories that pro- cess metal ores

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Smelters

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this rail line runs from Moscow to Vladivostok on the east coast, and is the longest single rail line in the world.

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Trans-Siberian Rail Road

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means that religion is kept separate from government.

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Secular

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a nationalist movement calling for Jews to establish a Jewish state in their ancient homeland, began in Europe in the late 1800s.

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Zionism

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which means “fit” in Hebrew, is the term used for food allowed under Jew- ish dietary laws.

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Kosher

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is a large farm where people share everything in common.

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Kibbutz

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Arabic-speaking nomads who mostly live in the deserts of Southwest Asia.

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Bedouins

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