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Sw & C Asia Vocab Flashcards

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Ural Mountains

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The border between Europe and northern Asia

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Chernozem

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Fertile soil in the north European plains

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Transcaucasia

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Located and bordered by the Caucasus mountains

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Central Asia

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The 5 Stan’s

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Siberia

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A region of central and eastern Russia, from the Ural Mountains to the pacific continentality

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Trans-Siberian railroad

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Links Moscow to the pacific port of Vladivostok

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Czar

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The empire of Russia prior to the Russian revolution

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Russian revolution

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The revolt of 1917; the Russian communist party took control of the government

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Ussr

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The soviet union(which collapsed) so now it’s present day Russia

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Cold War

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(1947-1991) a sustained state of military and political tension between the eastern and western block

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Command economy

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The government controls the economy

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Collective farm

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A farm under state super vision

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Banya

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A steam room that you go in to sweat then you jump in cold water immediately after

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Red army

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The ussr military when they conquered places

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Supra

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Takes place in Central Asia and it’s a dinner party where they talk about culture

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Silk Road

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Trade route named after expensive silk bought from China

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The great game

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A struggle between two empires(Russia & Great Britain)

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Nomad

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A person who moves from place to place

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Yurt

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A tent used by nomads

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Caucasus

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Mountain range between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea

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Privatization

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Government allows people to own businesses

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Distance decay

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A long distance between places making communication difficult

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Golan heights

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A hilly plateau looking over the Jordan river and Sea of Galilee

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Wadis

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River beds that remain dry except during rainy season

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Tigris river and Euphrates river

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The support several ancient valley civilizations in an area between them called the Fertile Crescent

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Jordan river

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Provides water

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Dead Sea

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A land locked salt lake

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Rub al Khali

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Most famous desert in the area; the empty quarter

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Drip irrigation

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The practice of using small pipes that slowly drip water just above ground to preserve water for crops

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Desalinization

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The removal of salt from ocean water

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Fossil water

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Water pumped from under ground aquifers

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Crude oil

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Petroleum that has not been processed

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Refinery

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Converts crude oil into useful products

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Mecca

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The holy Islamic city where you have your pilgrimage

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Islam

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A monotheistic religion based in the teachings of its founder Muhammad

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Muhammad

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The founder if the Islamic religion

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Mosque

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The place of worship of the Islamic religion

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Theocratic

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When religious leaders control the government

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OPEC

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Controls the world wide oil prices

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Western wall

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The only part left of the second temple(the wailing wall) it’s in Jerusalem and is holy for the Jews

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Dome of rock

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Where the Muslims believe that Muhammad ascended into heaven

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Zionism

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Bringing Jewish people back to their home land

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PLO

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(Palestine liberation organization) was designed to regain the land for the Palestinians

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Kurds

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An ethnic group in southwest Asia

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Mesopotamia

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“The land between the rivers” fertile soil makes raising crops easy

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Sunni and Shi’ite

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The two branches in the Muslim religion

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Taliban

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A fundamentalist Muslim political group

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Guest worker

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People who fill jobs no one else can do

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Stateless Nation

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A nation of people without land to legally occupy

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Palestinians

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Have been displaced; they are Arabs and are from Israel

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West Bank

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A strip of land on the west side if the Jordan river

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Gaia strip

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A territory along the Mediterranean Sea just northeast of the Sinai peninsula

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Strategic commodity

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A resource that countries will fight over

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