https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o en-us 2016-04-14 18:29:20 UTC 2016-04-19 18:35:27 UTC hello@padlet.com 329121 https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o/wish/105886419  Transcaucasia is a region in central Asia, south of the Caucasus Mountains between the Black and Caspian Seas in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. It was part of the republic of the Soviet Union from 1918 until 1936]]> 2016-04-14 18:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o/wish/105886419 329121 https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o/wish/105888170  - http://www.dictionary.com/browse/transcaucasia
 - http://www.britannica.com/place/Transcaucasia
 - http://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Transcaucasia
 - http://maps.unomaha.edu/Peterson/geog1000/Notes/Notes_Exam2/CAT.html
 - http://www.d.umn.edu/~lknopp/geog1202-1/Lecture%20Notes/Chapter%204%20(detailed).htm
 - http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Transcaucasia.aspx]]> 2016-04-14 18:56:40 UTC https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o/wish/105888170 320106 https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o/wish/105889124 The people in this region exhibited an extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity since the early times. The ethnicity and cultural diversity in Transcaucasia was preserved by the geographic isolation of the many small ethnic groups that settled in the mountain terrain. ]]> 2016-04-14 19:00:53 UTC https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o/wish/105889124 329121 https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o/wish/106088126 In the 70 years of Soviet rule, Transcaucasia was transformed from a largely agricultural area into an industrial and urban region.]]> 2016-04-15 18:45:42 UTC https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o/wish/106088126 329121 https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o/wish/106090043 The three earlier Soviet Socialist Republics, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan all make up Transcaucasia. Of the three Transcaucasian countries, Azerbaijan has the largest population having 8.2 million people in it.]]> 2016-04-15 18:55:10 UTC https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o/wish/106090043 320106 https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o/wish/106208181 2016-04-18 00:57:32 UTC https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o/wish/106208181 329121 https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o/wish/106337566 After Russian imperial expansion stopped in the mid-1800's, increased  the political unrest and repression at home encouraged many people (especially ethnic minorities) to migrate to North America. More emigrants fled from the violence of the 1917 Russian Revolution and the civil war. ]]> 2016-04-18 15:40:10 UTC https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o/wish/106337566 329121 https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o/wish/106340135 The climate is sub-tropical in Transcaucasia.]]> 2016-04-18 15:48:59 UTC https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o/wish/106340135 329121 https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o/wish/106340586 The region's natural resources are oil, manganese, copper, clay, and building stones. Manufactures include oil-industry, machinery, mining equipment, metal products, automobiles, chemicals, plastics, cotton and silk cloth, and leather footwear or shoes.]]> 2016-04-18 15:50:31 UTC https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o/wish/106340586 329121 https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o/wish/106342226 Throughout its history, the region has come under control of various empires, including the Achaemenid, Parthian,Roman, Sassanian, Byzantine, Mongol, Ottoman, successive Iranian (Safavid, Afsharid, Qajar), and Russian Empires, all of which introduced their faiths and cultures to it when they invade the region.]]> 2016-04-18 15:55:54 UTC https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o/wish/106342226 329121 https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o/wish/106448746 Transcaucasia is also known as Caucasus]]> 2016-04-19 03:53:44 UTC https://padlet.com/320106/9ctofzfmo53o/wish/106448746