Unit 5-Chapters 17 & 18:

An increase in unemployment and crime, tension between ethnic groups, the people
were worried about placing their businesses in private hands, they feared that the
government would come and take their homes and businesses away from them
Caspian Sea
Fumes, smoke, fog
Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan have to share it as a three way dividing
border. They have to share rivers and irrigation canals.
Dnieper, Don, Volga, Ural Rivers
Kara-Kum and Kyzyl-Kum
The Urals divide Europe and Asia.
Lake Baikal
Murmansk
Moscow
Peter the Great, expanded Russian control, took over lands along the Baltic Sea,
and ruled from 1682-1725. Ivan III won control over parts of Russia from the
Mongols in the late 1400s.
Felix Mendelssohn
Communism-an economic and political system in which the government owns or
controls almost all the means of production.
Socialism-an economic system in which the government owns and controls the means
of producing goods.

Vladimir Lenin-leader during Russian Revolution…Joseph Stalin- Mikhail Gorbachev-

Gulag- network of labor camp. Perestroika-the political and economic restructuring

in the former Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev from about 1986. The
stated aims included decentralized control of industry and agriculture and some
private ownership. Glasnost-a policy that commits a government or organization to
greater accountability, openness, discussion, and freer disclosure of information
than previously, especially that of Mikhail Gorbachev in the former Soviet Union.
Cold War- the hostile yet nonviolent relations between the former Soviet Union and
the United States, and their respective allies, from around 1946 to 1989
Radiation from the explosion and fires contaminated millions of acres of farmland
and forest. Nuclear Power Plant that exploded, the Soviet government tried to
cover it up, but failed.
A railroad that runs all the way across Russia; starts in Moscow

Unit 6-Chapters 19 & 20:

Theocracy
Monotheism-Belief in one god Polytheism-belief in many gods
Muhammed was a messenger or prophet of God. He was born in Mecca and orphaned at
an early age. He lived from about A.D. 570-632. He reported that a messenger of
God, the angel of Gabriel told him to preach the word of God.
Allah is god. The Korah is a holy book, that is like the Bible, that contains what
Muslims believe to be Allah’s messages to Muhammed.

They are a group from Afghanistan that came to power in the 1990s. They were
driven by an extreme version of the Sunni Islam. The Taliban had strict laws, and
soon collapsed.

Series of wars between the Turkic Muslims and Christians. (1095-1200s)

He took over the government after WWI. He created the Republic of Turkey and
established its capital.
The eastern part of the western Roman Empire that survived after its crumble in
A.D. 400. The Ottoman Empire was created in the 1300s by the Ottoman Turks. This
included most of Southwest Asia in the 1600s.
The movement that called for Jews to set up their own country ir homeland in
Palestine.
A organization formed to help establish independence in Palestine.
He used to be Iraq’s dictator.
They are exotic rivers
Arabian Peninsula
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers join at the Shatt al Arab and then empty into the
Persian Gulf.
Because it connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.

Unit 7-Chapters 21 & 22:

Hieroglyphs
Pharos considered Gods
Built pyramids and monuments and came up with hieroglyphs
Dual economies
Almost no tax are placed on goods from other places
From Lebanon, sailing around Africa
Lake Victoria
Bedouins
Violence
Economic development, population growth, health care, political problems,
protecting the environment
Spreading of desert conditions
Droughts and growing problems
Because it was easier for them to travel to
The worlds largest desert

Chapters 23 & 24:

Lake Victoria
Some of the earliest human remains have been found there
Starts in Tanzania and ends in Eritrea
International destruction of people
Sleeping sickness
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Apartheid
He was put in prison by South Africa’s government from 1962-1990 for his anti-
apartheid activities. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, became president in
1994.
An area separated for the rest of the country by the territory of other countries
Steep face at the edge of a plateau or other raised area
Penalties intended to force a country to change its policies
Diamonds
Disease and poverty
Urban Environment
Urban

Unit 8-Chapters 25 & 26:

Indian troops under British command
The mountains separate India and its neighbors from the rest of Asia.
All the gods of a religion
Hindu
It has rich soil that creates the worlds largest alluvial plain
Indus River valley
Country that forfeits certain decision making powers in exchange for protection by
a stronger country.
Jainism
Sikhism
Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam
Nepal
The two super continents that make up Pangaea
Agriculture

The government tried to increase food production. increased the amount of harvest
land, 2 crops a year.

Vedas-any or all of the collections of Aryan hymns, originally transmitted orally

but written down in sacred books. Caste System-practice to central Hinduism
Brahmins are the highest(priests), then the Kshatriyas(warriors), next was the
Vaisyas(traders and merchants), then the last ones were the Sudras(laborers and
farmers)
The followers of Hinduism believe that the soul is reborn again and again is
called reincarnation. The importance of doing one’s duty according to one’s
station in life is called dharma. Karma is the positive or negative force caused
by a persons actions.
Basic essence of the universe.
Buddah
He accepted Dharma and Karma
Portuguese
British
Because he made his point with non violent protests and he worked to end
discrimination between Hindus and Muslims.

Mumbai
Andaman and Nicoba Islands
Narmada, Godavari, Krishina Rivers
Monsoons-a wind system in which winds reserve direction and cause seasons of wet
and dry weather. It brings rain in the summer and It makes it dry in the winter.