Chapter 18 The Eurasian Republics

The Caucasus have a

• temperate climate
• frigid climate
• arid climate
• tropical climate

What is true about many of the Republics of Central Asia?

• they are landlocked
• they have great ports
• they have no resources
• they have great farmland

During the Soviet Union, the Republics and Caucasus

• suffered economically.
• had great economic success.
• had religious and cultural freedom.

Kazakhstan is located ___________ of Russia.

• west

• east

• south

• north

Eurasian Republics and Russia are now all which form of government?

• Communist

• Democratic Repulic

• Dictatorship

• Absolute Monarchy

The Caucasus is the name of...

• a tribe of people who lived in the U.S.S.R.

• a major lake located in central Asia.

• a group of countries that were under the control of the U.S.S.R.

• a mountain system in West Asia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the Caucasus region.

There are few gas or oil reserves in Central Asia

• True
• False

Georgia, Armenia, and Kyrgyzstan are the three countries of the Caucasus region.

• True
• False

Ethnic Turkomans make up about 75 percent of the population of Turkmenistan.

• True
• False

How have events in Tajikistan and Georgia been similar since the end of Soviet rule? 

• Both countries have endured civil war and government corruption.
• Islam has become the majority religion in both countries.
• Both countries have fought brief but bloody wars with Russia.
•  Ethnic Russians have migrated to both countries in large numbers.