Chapter 6 Key Term Quiz

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

A plan initiated in 1953 to open up vast areas of Kazakhstan steppe to grain production.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Russian name for World War II.

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

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

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