Ethnic and religious tensions in central asia are those in the caucasus. more violent than not as serious as between the same groups as more recent than

The correct answer would be not as serious. The main reason why the conflicts in Central Asia are not as serious as those in Caucasus is that for a long time the religion was subdued by the rule of the Soviet Union. After the fall of the Soviet Union there has been an increase in the religious activity but nothing really major as it happened in the Caucasus.

In the late fifteenth century, a major world power that established colonies in the era of old imperialism was france or germany or spain. their colonial activity was mainly limited to america or africa or asia.