Chapter 16: The Eurasian Republics

What are most of the republics trying to develop?

What nation continues to try to influence this region?

Where did many of the older cities of the region spring up?

What positive effect did Mongol rule bring to Central Asia?

What is generally true of the Eurasian republics?

Where do many nomads live?

Which country has benefited because the Azerbaijan-to-Turkey pipeline crosses its territory?

Which of the following did the Soviets encourage?

Who invaded the region from the 1200s to the 1400s?

What was the network of trade routes from China across Asia called?

What policy did the Soviet Union use to try to create unity?

Which Soviet action still causes land disputes in Transcaucasia and Central Asia?

Why are meat and milk a large part of the traditional diet of Central Asia?

Which nation experienced a deadly civil war during the 1990s?

What advantage do yurts offer?

When did the Eurasian republics gain independence from the Soviet Union?

What empire ruled Transcaucasia before the Soviet Union?

What was the Rose Revolution?

How do most people in Transcaucasia and Central Asia live?

What does it mean to say that a country is landlocked?

What religion did Arabs bring to Transcaucasia and Central Asia?

Why is Kazakhstan trying to develop light industry?

What are the Eurasian republics seeking in order to help their industries grow?

What resource is widely found in both Transcaucasia and Central Asia?

Where is Central Asia located?

Which body of water is half salt water and half fresh water?

Which of the following is the largest inland body of water in the water?

What nation ruled Transcaucasia and Central Asia until 1991?

What is a yurt?

Why did five nations argue over the oil reserves under the Caspian Sea?

Which body of water causes Georgia to have a more modern climate?

What part of Transcaucasia has the harshest climate?

Which country wants to build dams to generate hydroelectric power?

Which body of water has been shrinking?

What nation wants to take Nagorno-Karabakh from Azerbaijan?

What caused environmental damage in Kazakhstan?

What are the most common climates in Central Asia?

What is true of the cultural makeup of Transcaucasia and Central Asia?

Which Soviet leader was from the Eurasian republic of Georgia?

What mountain range runs between the Black and Caspian seas?

What lifestyle was common among the first inhabitants of Central Asia?

Why are the Eurasian republics having trouble setting up democracy?

Where is Transcaucasia located?

What nation is having a conflict with the Ossetians and Abkhazians?

Which country had an independent kingdom in the 800s?

Which of the following acted to reduce cultural diversity in the region?

What are people who move from place to place herding animals called?

How did Muslims spread their religion through Asia?

What happened when the Soviet Union used river water in Central Asia for irrigation?

Why did Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan build pipelines?

Which country had a peaceful uprising against a corrupt government?

Why is a one-crop economy considered an obstacle to growth?

Which of the following is a traditional art form of Central Asia?

Which two religions are practiced most in Transcaucasia and Central Asia?

What happened to many former Communist officials of the region?

What often prevents people of Transcaucasia and Central Asia from being loyal to their country?

Why does Central Asia have extreme high and low temperatures?

What was one major result of Soviet rule over Central Asia?

Which large desert is found in Turkmenistan?

How are the oil pipelines like the Silk Road?