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Jan 6
• 1. Turn in a syllabus. Let me know if you
have supplies for bonus
• 2. Review map
• 3. review physical features
• 4. define vocabulary
Section I The Land
A. Mountains
1. Ural Mts. -form border between
Europe and Asia
2. Caucacus Mts.-between Black Sea &
Caspian Sea
B Rivers
1. Danube River-begins in Germany and
flows east through 9 countries to the Black
Sea
2. Volga River- flows 2,193 miles to the
Caspian Sea. Important for trade in
Russia
C. Other Waters
Black Sea
White Sea
Bering Sea
Lake Baikal
Caspian Sea
Gulf of Finland
Sea of Okhotsk
D Other land features
• Kamchatka Peninsula- E. Russia
• Balkan Peninsula
• Crimean Peninsula-Black Sea
• Siberia
Define E. Europe vocab
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Eurasia
icebreakers
taiga
Slavs
Rus
Bolsheviks
czars
serfs
abdicate
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10.Soviets
11.shatter belt
12.gulag
13.light industry
14.heavy industry
15.smelters
16.caravans
17.nomads
18.yurts
Jan. 11
1. Turn in syllabus for late credit. Get out
atlas q’s and vocab
2. Turn in atlas map q’s in the bin
3. Make sure vocab are numbered & out on
desk
4. Group map exercise
5. Go over atlas questions
6. Notes if time.
The Northern European Plain --> An
Invasion Route into Asia (& Vice Versa?)
Transylvania in the Carpathian Mountains
 Home of Vlad Tepeš, the
Drakul (“Count Dracula”)
Aka Vlad the Impaler
Section II History & Govt.
A Early People
1. farmers
2. hunters and gatherers & nomads
Flag of Kyrgyzastan
Emblem of Kazahkstan
Yurt inspired rooms
B Christianity split into 2 branches
1 Eastern Orthodox Church (in
Constantinople)
– Missionaries introduced the Cyrillic
alphabet to the Russians, Serbs and
other Slav peoples
– Stressed obedience & helped
feudalism continue
2 Roman Catholic Church (in Rome)
1. Obeyed Pope
2. Introduced Roman alphabet to the
Poles and Czechs
3. Claimed authority over monarchs. This
contributed to decline of feudal system
C Mongol & Turkish Influence
1. In the early 1200s the Mongols invaded
the steppes of Russia. They conquered
Kiev and much of the rest of Russia.
They opened trade routes.
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World Map Test
Review Map for quiz Tomorrow
Circle graph
Notes
• Study for quiz tomorrow
2 The Ottomans, a group of nomadic
Turkish tribes, captured Constantinople in
1453. Since the ottomans were Muslims,
when they conquered central and southern
Europe, they spread Islam throughout the
region (decline in the mid 1600s).
D. Growth of Russia and
Revolution
1. Under Mongol rule, the city of Moscow became
the financial center of Russia
2. In time, Moscow’s rulers, czars, were accepted
as the rulers of all of Russia.
3. Czars consolidated their power by making all
nobles perform govt. service and taxing
peasants
4. Revolutionary stirrings began in Russia in the
late 19th Century. The writing of Karl Marx, a
German philosopher were circulated in Russia
in the 1880s
5. A program of Russianification, which
required all people to speak Russian &
become Christians, was instituted. This
angered peasants.
6. During WWI food shortages caused riots
among Russian people (soldiers refused to act
against the strikers)
7. The unrest forced Czar Nicholas II to abdicate
in March 1917. A provisional govt. led by
Aleksandr Kerensky was set up
Communist takeover
• Kerensky’s govt. couldn’t solve the
country's problems. Bolsheviks or
Communists stormed the palace in
Petrograd. They set up a new govt. with
Vladimir Lenin as its leader
• A civil war resulted with the Bolshevik
forces ( the Reds) & anti-Bolshevik ( white
army). Red army won.
• 3. Lenin built a new nation, the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) of 15
separate republics.
• 4 Communist govt. took control of the
country’s industrial, farming and
transportation system
• 5. After WWII the Sov. Union took control
of E. European countries liberated from
Germ. Control. And created Soviet Bloc
Iron
Curtain
Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech
• From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic
an “iron curtain” has descended across the
Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of
the ancient states of Central and Eastern
Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna,
Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all
these famous cities and the populations around
them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere,
and all are subject, in one form or another, not
only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in
some cases increasing measure of control from
Moscow.
F. Governments Today
1. Until 1989, all E. European countries and
USSR had Communist governments. In
communist systems the communist party is the
only party with any power. Only party members
can hold important jobs in govt., education and
the military.
2. In 1989, communist govts. in most Eastern
European countries fell and were replaced with
more democratic forms of govt. ( German
reunification, end of the cold war)
• 3. Mikhail Gorbachev began programs to
reform the Soviet govt. He began
Perestroika or the “reorganization” of the
govt. to:
– rebuild the economy
– Give more freedoms like speech
– Keep 15 republics under soviet control
• 4. In Aug. 1991 Boris Yeltsin became the
democratically elected leader of Russia He
established a capitalist economic system
• 5 The current president of Russia Vladimir
Putin.
Russia’s 10 Time Zones
Trans-Siberian Railroad
 Completed in 1905.
Trans-Siberian Railroad
 The main line runs 5,785 miles.
Siberia --> Permafrost
 A former “gulag”
Soviet prison camp.
Lake Baikal, Siberia
 The oldest and deepest
lake in the world.
 20% of the world’s
fresh water
Caspian Sea-largest inland lake