Chapter 6 Key Term Quiz

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

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

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

A former industrial site affected by environmental contamination.

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

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

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

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

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

Intellectual belied system developed in 17th and 18th century Europe that's stressed reason over belief and rationality over religion.

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.

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