Russia and the Republics Crossword (Unit 5 Review)

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Across
  1. 1. The region that contains Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.
  2. 3. During Soviet occupation, many people died due to starvation and executions caused by their political or ____ beliefs.
  3. 6. This river and the Ural Mountains are the borders of the West Siberian Plain
  4. 9. Name of the oldest and deepest lake in the world
  5. 11. by the late 14th century, most people stopped using the silk road and used this instead because it was faster and easier to travel.
  6. 14. People call him “Ivan the …. when they dislike him.
  7. 16. The republics that briefly won independence after the Russian revolution got re-taken over by the ____ in the early 1920s.
  8. 18. The largest country in the world
  9. 19. The country that is especially rich in oil in the Transcaucasia region.
  10. 21. In 1991, after the Soviet Union collapsed, 5 ____ were formed.
  11. 22. Transcaucasia has a long history of violence and outside ____ .
  12. 23. Who invaded Russia with the largest army in 1812
  13. 24. A tribe looking for trade routes though the region in the 1800s
  14. 25. Russia’s capital city
  15. 27. Peter the Great moved the capital city from Moscow to this city and called it the “Window to the West.”
  16. 28. Historically, the people of Central Asia were ____ .
  17. 29. This road became a trading route for ideas, technology, and religion.
Down
  1. 2. World’s largest inland sea that’s also a saltwater lake
  2. 4. Most people in the Transcaucasia region are mostly Christian or ____.
  3. 5. This region lies to the east of the Northern European Plain
  4. 7. the republics briefly won ____ after the Russian Revolution in 1917.
  5. 8. The region’s longest river flowing for 2.300 miles from Moscow to the Caspian Sea
  6. 10. East of the Caspian , and is also a saltwater lake
  7. 12. Led Russian soldiers into Transcaucasia in the 18th century.
  8. 13. resources What did the countries want from the Caspian Sea
  9. 15. To make this type of economy work, the government must take “____” of all economic activities
  10. 16. The family that took the throne in Russia in the late 1600s
  11. 17. is a mountain range between China and Kyrgyzstan that stretches for 1500 miles and serves as a barrier coming from the south.
  12. 20. leaders in the Transcaucasian region have struggled to rebuild their nation’s ____ ever since the Soviet Union collapsed.
  13. 26. Mountains- Mountains separating the Northern European plain and North siberian plain