Transcaucasia CHAPTER 16, SECTION 2

CULTURAL CROSSROADS MIGRANTS WHO TRAVELED FROM EUROPE TO ASIA FOLLOWED THE TRADE ROUTES THROUGH THIS REGION

TODAY, MORE THAN 50 DIFFERENT CULTURES LIVE HERE. THIS REGION IS KNOWN AS THE “MOUNTAIN OF LANGUAGE.” LOOK AT PAGE 370 WHAT IS THE MOST COMMON LANGUAGE SPOKEN HERE?

RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY WITH MIGRATION, CAME RELIGIOUS IDEAS WHAT RELIGIONS ARE PRACTICED HERE? ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY ISLAM

SOVIET RULE AFTER WORLD WAR II, THE U.S.S.R. TOOK CONTROL OF THIS REGION AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION IN 1991, THE REGIONAL CONFLICTS WORSENED, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN DISPUTED AREAS OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH AND IN THE RUSSIAN- GEORGIAN BORDER AREA KNOWN AS CHECHNYA CHECHNYA

HISTORY THE CZARS’S ARMIES CONQUERED THE REGION FROM 1500- 1870. AFTER THE 1917 RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, THE COUNTRIES ENJOYED SOME INDEPENDENCE BY THE 1920’S, THE RED ARMY OF THE SOVIETS TOOK CONTROL PAINFUL TIMES FOLLOWED FAMINES CAUSED BY INEFFICIENT COLLECTIVE FARMING PERSECUTION FOR RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL BELIEFS

ECONOMICS CLIMATE IS MILD AND GOOD FOR FARMING IN GEORGIA TOURISM IS PROFITABLE

LAND OF FLAMES AZERBAIJAN IS KNOWN AS THE LAND OF FLAMES. MOST OF THE OIL IS UNDER THE WATERS OF THE CASPIAN SEA.

HOW WILL THE CASPIAN BE DIVIDED IF IT IS CONSIDERED A SEA? CONSIDERED A LAKE?

WHY DOES IT MATTER WHAT THE CASPIAN IS CALLED? WHICH COUNTRIES HAVE MORE TO GAIN IF IT IS A LAKE? WHICH COUNTRIES HAVE MORE TO GAIN IF IT IS A SEA?

MODERN LIFE IN TRANSCAUCASIA LITERACY RATES ARE HIGH, DUE TO THE COMMUNIST IDEAL OF TRAINED WORKERS HIGH EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS ARE IMPORTANT TO THESE COUNTRIES HOSPITALITY IS AN IMPORTANT CUSTOM THE SUPRA, AN ELABORATE DINNER PARTY, INVOLVES LARGE QUANTITIES OF FOOD AND MANY TOASTS THIS SUPRA IS JUST FINISHING THE SECOND COURSE AFTER 2 HOURS !