Chapter 6 Key Term Quiz

Russia and Its Neighbors
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A very rich business person who might also maintain a great deal of political authority. Oligarchs proliferated in Russia after the fall of the USSR as many previously state owned assets were acquired below market value.

The tendency for empires to become involved in more foreign interventions that they can afford or manage successfully.

A sect of Islam distinct from Shia in that its adherents do not believe that the succession of the Prophet Mohammed should be hereditary and follow family bloodlines.

Political fragments of a state not physically connected to that state and surrounded by the territory of one or other nations.

The targeting and forced removal of ethnic minorities by other groups and/or the nation-state

A vast network of pipelines used to transport oil and gas deposits from Russia and central Asia to markets in Europe and China.

A type of economic system that is controlled and planned by the central government.

The money that temporary and permanent migrants send back to their home country.

The democratic movement in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

A type of economic system that is not controlled by a central authority but rather left to the free and open collaboration and decisions of the participants in the market.

The world's first communist state established in 1917 and encompassed modern day Russia along with a number of countries that surround it. The USSR collapsed in the late 1991.

A significant and highly influential ancient trade route that linked Europe with China.

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