Vocab For Central Europe + N. Eurasia

Question 1

Domestication

Answer 1

The process of training and breeding animals for use by humans

Question 2

Communism

Answer 2

A system in which the government controlled almost all aspects of the political and economic life

Question 3

Eurasia

Answer 3

Europe and Asia viewed as a large single continent

Question 4

Tundra

Answer 4

Treeless plane in Arctic areas where short grasses and mosses grow
by Arctic Ocean

Question 5

Taiga

Answer 5

Coniferous forests

Question 6

Steppe

Answer 6

Expansive grasslands

Broad open stretches

Question 7

Multiethnic

Answer 7

Containing many ethnic groups

Question 8

Ethnic group

Answer 8

People who share culture, language, and religion

Question 9

Acid rain

Answer 9

A form of pollution in which toxic chemicals in the air come back to earth as rain, snow, or hail

Question 10

National identity

Answer 10

Sense of what characteristics make them a nation

Question 11

Ghetto

Answer 11

An area of the city where a minority is forced to live

Question 12

Holocaust

Answer 12

When Nazis massacred More than 6 million Jews across Europe

Question 13

Velvet Revolution

Answer 13

A revolution without bloodshed

Question 14

Collective farm

Answer 14

Workers are paid by government and share profits from their products

Question 15

Privatization

Answer 15

The process of selling government-owned industries and businesses to private owners who can run them more efficiently

Question 16

Balkanize

Answer 16

To break up into small, mutually hostile political units

Question 17

Entrepreneur

Answer 17

Go-getter individuals who start and build businesses

Question 18

Multiplier effect

Answer 18

Effect an investment has in multiplying related jobs throughout an economy

Question 19

Diversify

Answer 19

Increase variety of their industries

Question 20

Chernozem

Answer 20

“Black earth”

Question 21

Permafrost

Answer 21

Layer of permanently frozen soil

Question 22

Czar

Answer 22

Monarchs

Caesar

Question 23

Abdicate

Answer 23

Give up crown

Question 24

Soviet

Answer 24

Governing council

Question 25

Command economy

Answer 25

A central authority decides what goods will be produced

Question 26

Glasnost

Answer 26

“Openness” Allowed to citizens and news media to say what they wanted without fear of being prosecuted

Question 27

Perestroika

Answer 27

Economic restructuring

Question 28

Rubel

Answer 28

The currency of Russia

Question 29

Black market

Answer 29

System of selling goods and services outside of the official channels

Question 30

Autonomy

Answer 30

Independence

Question 31

Genocide

Answer 31

Systematic killing or intentional destruction of a people

Question 32

Nationalism

Answer 32

Pride in one’s nation; The desire of a cultural group to rule themselves

Question 33

Fundamentalism

Answer 33

A set of religious beliefs based on a strict interpretation of a sacred text

Question 34

Yurt

Answer 34

A rounded tent made of a wooden framework and covered with felt or skins

Question 35

Desertification

Answer 35

The transformation of arable land into desert either naturally or through human intervention