Ch. 17 - Central Asia, The Caucasus, and Siberian Russia

From where did the first humans in Siberia come?

• Central and Eastern Asia
• Russia
• Spain
• Alaska

Which of the following events began in 1891?

• Collapse of the Soviet Union

• Construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad.

• World War II started

• The Soviets space race.

What word means alike; of the same kind?

• Pastoral

• Gulags

• Homogeneous

• Yurt

Related to the keeping or herding of animals

• Hunter gatherers
• Domestication
• Collectives
• Pastoral

Soviet Labor Camps

• Gulags
• Gestapo
• Collectives
• Yurt

Green area by a water source in a dry region

• Yurt
• Gulags
• Oasis
• Collectives

Large government-run farms in the Soviet Union.

• Collectives
• Oasis
• Gulags
• Yurt

Round tent with a domed roof covered in wool or animal skin and used by rural people in Central Asia

• Collective
• Yurt
• Gulags
• Collectives

For most of their history, __________ ________________ countries were part of outside empires.

• Russia
• Central Asian
• Caucasus
• China

From the late 1400s, Ottomans and Persians competed for the __________

• Central Asia
• Russia
• Caucasus
• Pakistan