Chapter 6 Key Term Quiz

Russia and Its Neighbors
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A former industrial site affected by environmental contamination.

An empire that developed from the Roman Empire, centered on Constantinople that lasted from 285 until 1483.

A military alliance formed in 1949 between Canada, the USA and European countries as a bulwark against the Soviet Union.

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

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.

Refers to those countries that were formerly part of the old Soviet Union, but decided to separate from Russia after its fall.

The empire founded by Genghis Khan that extended in the 13th and 14th century across Asia into Europe.

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

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

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

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.

Region found between the tundra and steppe regions of northern latitudes that is generally composed of coniferous forests.

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