Chapter 6 Key Term Quiz

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Russian name for World War II.

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.

A very rich business person who might also maintain a great deal of political authority. Oligarchs proliferated in Russia after the fall of the USSR as many previously state owned assets were acquired below market value.

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