Chapter 6 Key Term Quiz

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

Countries that were part of the Soviet Union, some of which maintained some relative autonomy.

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

A system of labor camps maintained in the Soviet Union in the early to mid 20th century.

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.

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

The alphabet used by Slavic languages, such as Russian, Bulgarian, and Serbian.

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.

An arc tectonic activity, including volcanoes and earthquakes, caused by the movement of tectonic plates that surround the Pacific Ocean.

The ideological movement by Russian leaders to promote the active creation of a single Russian empire with one religion and a single language.

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

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