3. (l) Understand the significance of the landlocked locations of Central
Asia
(lll) Describe and differentiate various Central Asian and Siberian
religious traditions
(ll) Develop an understanding of the land and people in Central Asia and
Siberia
6. Russia is more of an Asian country, due to the Siberian territory, which
makes up 77% of Russia.
Land
Siberia’s name comes from the Tartar word for “sleeping land”.
8. Siberia is one of the coldest regions in Russia with an
average daily high temperature of only 5 degrees.
Stroganina is a raw fish dish of the indigenous people of northern
Arctic Siberia made from raw, thin, long-sliced frozen fish. It is a
popular dish with native Siberians.
Deposits of coal, petroleum, natural gas,
diamonds, iron ore, and gold.
9. The current metro area population of
Novosibirsk in 2022 is 1, 686, 000.
Baraba Tatar
10.
11.
12. Four of the world’s longest rivers intersect the
vast region-
13. People
The 30 or so indigenous Siberian ethnic groups make up only about 4 percent of the population.
Russians and Ukrainians Tatars
Germans Buryats
14. Siberian Culture
Majority of the Buryats live in and around Ulan-Ude.
The Buryats still preserve their shamanism religion and many practice Buddhism.
18. By the end of the 17th century, Russia had colonized Siberia and all
the way to the Pacific Ocean.
During the days of the Russian Czars, many communists were
exiled to Siberia (including Lenin, Stalin and others
Before, no religion was tolerated, but the open economy brought
a religious revival with many churches being built, the largest
being the Orthodox Russia denomination.
31. He was lame, but a fierce conqueror,
and he was known locally as Timur
the Great, and his empire was the
Timurid Empire.
32.
33. Starting from his capital in Samarkand in Uzbekistan, he subdued the neighboring tribes and
also invaded Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Georgia, the gates of Russia, Afghanistan, and India
34.
35. Today he is a National Hero in
Uzbekistan, and his tomb in
Samarkand is projected by a jade slab
with the words, “ Were I live today
mankind would tremble”