Geography 16 and 17
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- Baltic republics
- The couties of Lativa, Lithuania, and Estonia, located on the eastern coast of the Baltic sea
- Russian revolution
- The revolt of 1917. In which the Russian communist party, led by V.I. Lenin, took control of the gov't from the czars
- Privatization
- The Sale of gov't owned business to private citizens
- Market economy
- A type of economic system in which production of goods and services is determined by the demand from consumers (Aka demand economy or capitalism)
- Nagorno-Karabakh
- The mountainous area of Azerbaijan fought over by Armenia and Azerbaijan
- Collective farms
- An enormous farm in the soviet union on which a large team of laborers were gathered to work together on Joseph Stalin reigns.
- Nomads
- People with no permenant home who moves according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land
- Distance decay
- A term refering to the concept that increasing distance between places tend to refuce interactions among them
- Silk road
- The 4,000-mile route between China an dthe Mediterranean sea, named for the costly silk acquired in china
- Chechnya
- One of the republics that remains a part of Russia after the collapse of the soviet union despite independence movements and violent upheaval
- Caucasus
- A region that straddles the Caucasus mountains and stretches between the Black and Caspian sea
- Red army
- The name of the Soviet Unions military