Chapter 18 Central Europe and Northern Eurasia

Overview Chapter F there were 8 countries in Eastern Europe F FWhy? Fall of FSoviet Union, F religion, ethnicity, and land disputes F there were 8 countries in Eastern Europe F FWhy? Fall of FSoviet Union, F religion, ethnicity, and land disputes

Physical Geography FLandscape: F1. North European plain - Atlantic to the Ural Mts. In Russia Vistula river - Poland 2.Carpathian Mountains - Northern Slovakia to Romania - Transylvanian Alps 3.Danube Valley - Danube river, Wallachian Plain (Romania and Southern Bulgaria) Hungarian Basin (pustza) - Serbia, Hungary, Romania -farmland and very fertile land FLandscape: F1. North European plain - Atlantic to the Ural Mts. In Russia Vistula river - Poland 2.Carpathian Mountains - Northern Slovakia to Romania - Transylvanian Alps 3.Danube Valley - Danube river, Wallachian Plain (Romania and Southern Bulgaria) Hungarian Basin (pustza) - Serbia, Hungary, Romania -farmland and very fertile land

Physical continued F4. Balkan peninsula - Albania/Bulgaria and former Yugoslavia -Balkan Mts. -Dinaric Alps - coast karst - soft limestone dissolved by water East drier than west (winds lose moisture) Hungarian Basin - very dry 1/2 farming Tundra to Chaparral - evergreens, bushes, scrub F4. Balkan peninsula - Albania/Bulgaria and former Yugoslavia -Balkan Mts. -Dinaric Alps - coast karst - soft limestone dissolved by water East drier than west (winds lose moisture) Hungarian Basin - very dry 1/2 farming Tundra to Chaparral - evergreens, bushes, scrub

Human Geography FMultiethnic - especially eastern Europe, composed of many ethnic groups East - Russians, Ukrainians West - Poles, Czechs, Slovaks South - Serbs, Croats, Macedonians, Bulgars Slavs - 2/3 the population of Eastern Europe Came from India settled N. of Carpathian Mt. (Baltics) FMultiethnic - especially eastern Europe, composed of many ethnic groups East - Russians, Ukrainians West - Poles, Czechs, Slovaks South - Serbs, Croats, Macedonians, Bulgars Slavs - 2/3 the population of Eastern Europe Came from India settled N. of Carpathian Mt. (Baltics)

Human geography FThe Magyars (Hungarians) A.D. 895 FCommunism - Karl Marx, society has no social class and holding in common ownership the economic resources of the country FTotalitarianism - Gov. controls all aspects of the people FStalin - after WWII created a buffer zone between East and West Europe FBetween many countries overthrew communist rule FThe Magyars (Hungarians) A.D. 895 FCommunism - Karl Marx, society has no social class and holding in common ownership the economic resources of the country FTotalitarianism - Gov. controls all aspects of the people FStalin - after WWII created a buffer zone between East and West Europe FBetween many countries overthrew communist rule

Last of Human Geography FCzech Republic and Slovakia - split in 1993 FRoma - gypsies, migrated from India, most live in Greece, nomadic FWomen - begging, fortune telling FMen - trades (roofing, etc.) FCzech Republic and Slovakia - split in 1993 FRoma - gypsies, migrated from India, most live in Greece, nomadic FWomen - begging, fortune telling FMen - trades (roofing, etc.)