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- 1YurtA tent of central Asia's nomads
- 2Silk Road4,000 mile route between china and the Mediterranean Sea named for costly silk acquired in China
- 3Red Armyname of soviet unions military
- 4ChernozemBlack top soil one of the worlds most fertile soils
- 5SupraGeorgian term for dinner party with many dishes and courses, toast and short speeches
- 6Collective FarmsEnormous farms in Soviet Union on which a large team of laborers were gathered to work together during Joseph Stalirs reign
- 7ContinentialityRegions distance from moderating influence of the sea
- 8Russian RevolutionRevolt of 1917 in which the Russian communist party led by V.I. Lenin took control of the government from the czars
- 9Trans-Siberian RailroadRailroad that would eventually link Moscow to the pacific port of Vladivostok; built between 1891 and 1903
- 10Taiganearly continuous belt of evergreen coniferous forest across the Northern Hemisphere in North America and Eurasia
- 11Baltic RepublicsThe countries of Lativa, Luthuania, and Estonia, located on the eastern coast of the Baltic sea
- 12USSRUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics or Soviet Union, formed in 1992 by the communist and officially dissolved
- 13Command EconomyEconomy system in which production of goods and services is determined by a central government which usually owns the means of production
- 14RunoffRainfall not absorbed by soil which can carry pesticides and fertilizers from fields into rivers endangering the food chain
- 15Distance DecayTerm refferring to the concept that increasing distances between places tend to reduce interactions among them
- 16Cold WarConflict between the US and Soviet Union after WWII called "cold" because it never escalated into open warfare
- 17CzarThe emperor of Russia prior to the Russian revolution of 1917 and subsequent creation of the Soviet Union in 1922
- 18Caucasusa region that straddles the Caucasus mountains and stretches between the black and caspian seas
- 19ChechnyaOne of the republics that remains a part of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union despite independence movements and violent upheaval
- 20SiberiaA region of central and eastern Russia, stretching from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, known for it's mineral resources and for being a place of political exile
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