Chapter 6 Key Term Quiz

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

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.

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.

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

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

A blueprint for Soviet city structures, which was influential in creating the urbanized structure of modern Russia.

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

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

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