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| seasonal wind that dominates the climate of India |
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| 2nd elected leader of Russia, still there today |
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| Bolshevik dictator, launched the 5-Year Plans and the Great Purge, killed millions |
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| the duties and obligations of each caste |
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| Lenin's plan to increase industry and agriculture |
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-Terror is an instrument of the government
-Religion is an opient of the people
-The end justifies the mean |
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| The last ruling family of Russia |
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| a large landmass that juts out from a continent |
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| area formed by soil deposited at the mouth of a river |
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| describes deposits of soil made by running water |
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| a natural fixture of the Earth's surface |
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| broad area of fairly level land that is usually clase to sea level |
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| large area of high land that is flat ofr gently rolling |
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| opening or trail in th mountains |
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| an area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn |
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| place where a river empties into a larger body of water |
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| place where a river begins |
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| a hurricane in the Eastern Hemisphere |
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| a regional version of a language with its own words,expressions and punctuations |
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| a major language of India |
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| to determine the meaning of something written in code |
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| hereditary Aryan chiefs who ruled the villages |
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| four classes into which the Aryans divided people: priest, warrior, landowner, peasant |
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| a system of social groups based on birth |
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| in Hinduism, the single,supreme force or reality of the universe |
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| in Hinduism, the essential self of every individual,which in turn, is also part of a universal soul called the brahman |
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| in Hinduism,the belief that the soul is reborn in various forms |
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| in Hinduism, the belief that every deed, mental or physical, affects a person's fate in a future life |
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| in Buddhism, the condition of having no desires |
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| a climate with cold summers and freezing winters; a fozen plain in the Arctic that supports moss and lichens |
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| a layer of soil below the surface that remains permanently frozen |
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| a belt of evergreen forests |
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| a huge plain that stretches across parts of Ukraine and Russia |
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| eastern half of the Roman Empire split into 2 parts in AD 330- included Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, and the Fertile Crescent |
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| composed of Greek and Hebrew letters that was devised for the Slavic peoples in AD 850 |
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| village commune that regulated village life in Russia before 1917 |
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| Russian noblemen or aristocracy |
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| the Vikings that settled in Russia |
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| the sounds of the Russian alphabet |
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| conquered give the conqueror goods or food |
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| system of government in which local lords ruled the land but were bound by ties of loyalty to the higher lords and the monarch |
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| rebirth of learning lost in the Middle Ages: human reasoning was a very important idea |
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| organized acts of violence against Jews |
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| period of time in Europe in which philosophy, reason and individuality were important |
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| middle class in Russia, very small |
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| war in 1904 caused by conflict with Japan over Korea and Manchuria- Japan won |
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